For in reference to these points, and others of a like nature, the apostle exclaims: “Oh! the
depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God; how unsearchable are His
judgments, and His ways past finding out!”150 But [the superior skill spoken of] is not found
in this, that any one should, beyond the Creator and Framer [of the world], conceive of the
Enthymesis of an erring Æon, their mother and his, and should thus proceed to such a pitch
of blasphemy; nor does it consist in this, that he should again falsely imagine, as being above
this [fancied being], a Pleroma at one time supposed to contain thirty, and at another time
an innumerable tribe of Æons, as these teachers who are destitute of truly divine wisdom
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maintain; while the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole
world, as we have already said.
150 Rom. xi. 33.
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Chapter X.—Unity of the faith of the Church throughout the whole world.