surdity of their falsehood may be made manifest, and also the confused nature of the nomen- 379 clature they have devised. For they themselves detract from [the dignity of] their Æons by a multitude of names of this sort. They give out names plausible and credible to the heathen, [as being similar] to those who are called their twelve gods,419 and even these they will have to be images of their twelve Æons. But the images [so called] can produce names [of their own] much more seemly, and more powerful through their etymology to indicate divinity [than are those of their fancied prototypes]. 419 Viz., the “Dii majorum gentium” of the Gentiles. 981 Chapter XIV.—Valentinus and his followers derived the principles of their…