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1 I, pref, 1| which is in faith," and by means of their craftily-constructed
2 I, pref, 1| things that are therein. By means of specious and plausible
3 I, pref, 2| ability, to furnish the means of overthrowing them, by
4 I, pref, 3| but also to furnish the means of showing their falsity;
5 I, 1, 2 | sent forth emanations by means of conjunction. Logos and
6 I, 2, 4 | produces, in his own image, by means of Monogenes, the above-mentioned
7 I, 3, 1 | revealed by the Saviour through means of parables to those qualified
8 I, 3, 2 | one tittle, shall by no means pass away until all be fulfilled."~
9 I, 3, 6 | proofs for their opinions by means of perverse interpretations
10 I, 4, 1 | AEon, due to degeneracy by means of passion, but to an [innate]
11 I, 6, 1 | had need of training by means of the outward senses; and
12 I, 6, 2 | undoubtedly saved, not by means of conduct, but because
13 I, 6, 4 | descended from above by means of an unspeakable and indescribable
14 I, 6, 4 | good works, that by this means we may attain at length
15 I, 8, 4 | Pleroma, showing them forth by means of one; for, when writing
16 I, 9, 4 | infernal regions, does so by means of these Homeric verses,--
17 I, 9, 4 | truth which he received by means of baptism, will doubtless
18 I, 9, 4 | Scriptures, but will by no means acknowledge the blasphemous
19 I, 13, 1 | impostures, and by this means drawing away a great number
20 I, 13, 1 | working miracles by these means.~2.
21 I, 13, 2 | blood into that cup through means of his invocation, and that
22 I, 13, 3 | his familiar spirit, by means of whom he seems able to
23 I, 14, 2 | other letters in itself, by means of which the name of the
24 I, 14, 7 | power and wisdom, through means of that which had been produced
25 I, 15, 3 | knowledge of Himself by means of the Word. And on His
26 I, 15, 3 | of Sige which is known by means of them, but cannot be expressed
27 I, 15, 6 | still to accomplish,~By means of Azazel, that fallen and
28 I, 16, 2 | Ogdoad generates, by these means, ninety-nine. And since
29 I, 16, 2 | Wherefore also they, by means of their "knowledge," avoid
30 I, 16, 3 | themselves so striking, by means of Alpha and Beta, and through
31 I, 16, 3 | no God, was produced by means of a defect, which itself
32 I, 17, 1 | also they affirm, that by means of this circle an image
33 I, 18, 1 | tenth place, trees. Thus, by means of these ten names, he indicated
34 I, 18, 1 | follows: In his hands, by means of his fingers, he bears
35 I, 18, 3 | the ark in the Deluge, by means of which eight persons were
36 I, 21, 4 | spiritual man is redeemed by means of knowledge, and that they,
37 I, 23, 3 | constitute them, seeking, by means of such precepts, to bring
38 I, 23, 5 | too, as he affirms, by means of that magic which he teaches,
39 I, 25, 1 | from the Father, that by means of it he might escape from
40 I, 25, 1 | endowed with faculties, by means of which he destroyed those
41 I, 25, 3 | the name [of Christ], as a means of hiding their wickedness;
42 I, 25, 4 | necessary, therefore, that by means of transmigration from body
43 I, 25, 5 | We are saved, indeed, by means of faith and love; but all
44 I, 27, 4 | good name, and, through means of its sweetness and beauty,
45 I, 30, 4 | mother, and that through means of it he works; and becoming
46 I, 30, 6 | a man (in order that by means of him she might empty them
47 I, 30, 7 | of again emptying man by means of woman, and produced a
48 I, 30, 7 | seduce Eve and Adam, by means of the serpent, to transgress
49 I, 30, 9 | besprinkling of light, by means of which they came to a
50 I, 30, 10 | were saved in the ark by means of the besprinkling of that
51 I, 30, 10 | inheritance. Afterwards, by means of Moses, he brought forth
52 I, 30, 11 | Prunicus brought it about by means of Ialdabaoth (who knew
53 I, 30, 12 | announced his advent through means of John, and prepared the
54 I, 31, 4 | seest. But I shall furnish means for overthrowing them, by
55 II, pref, 1| the manner in which, by means of numbers, and by the twenty-four
56 II, pref, 2| permits, and overthrow, by means of lengthened treatment
57 II, 6, 1 | superiority, but He could by no means have been unknown to them
58 II, 6, 2 | put demons to flight by means of this very adjuration,
59 II, 7, 1 | into existence] through means of his Mother, inasmuch
60 II, 7, 1 | then have possessed any means of honouring the Fulness,
61 II, 7, 6 | contrary, but can by no means be their images--as, for
62 II, 10, 1 | question can be solved by means of another which itself
63 II, 10, 1 | ambiguity be explained by means of another ambiguity, or
64 II, 10, 1 | ambiguity, or enigmas by means of another greater enigma,
65 II, 10, 2 | for how could they find means of doing so? But they append
66 II, 11, 2 | rendered destitute of the means of attacking us, but that,
67 II, 13, 2 | utters speech of himself by means of those processes which
68 II, 13, 4 | understanding, never by any means be separated from Himself;
69 II, 14, 1 | them undoubtedly through means of the same arguments, and
70 II, 14, 8 | Thus far, then, by means of [ascribing to their AEons]
71 II, 14, 8 | gradually drawing them on by means of the familiar aliment,
72 II, 14, 8 | persuading [others], by means of their plausible speeches,
73 II, 16, 2 | as having been formed by means of succession, he will say,
74 II, 17, 1 | from me full and complete means for overturning [the views
75 II, 18, 3 | been made perfect] through means of this, that He is unsearchable
76 II, 18, 6 | should seek after Him who, by means of imagination, has been
77 II, 19, 2 | required to be disciplined by means of the senses. But [they
78 II, 20, 3 | power. For the Lord, through means of suffering, "ascending
79 II, 21, 1 | with this view, that by means of them He might show forth
80 II, 21, 1 | have said, represented by means of the apostles; but the
81 II, 21, 1 | AEons might be indicated by means of them, then the seventy
82 II, 21, 1 | and not of others; but by means of the apostles He would
83 II, 21, 2 | but very skilfully also by means of the lyric poet Pindar,
84 II, 22, 4 | came to save all through means of Himself--all, I say,
85 II, 22, 5 | young man, and who had by no means attained to advanced age.
86 II, 23, 1 | this way to shadow forth by means of things present those
87 II, 24, 1 | of it, sometimes through means of numbers and the syllables
88 II, 24, 1 | purpose of the Father, by means of their numerical value
89 II, 24, 1 | being a Greek name, ought by means of its letters and the numbers [
90 II, 24, 2 | ancient Hebrew language means "heaven," while again "earth"
91 II, 24, 2 | but they are written by means of fifteen), the last letter
92 II, 24, 2 | same way, ought, both by means of letters and numerical
93 II, 24, 3 | Saviour, to set forth, by means of the Demiurge, types of
94 II, 24, 4 | as they indulge in], by means of that vain kind of labour;
95 II, 24, 5 | of these months, that by means of twelve hours they might
96 II, 24, 6 | letters of the Greeks, by means of which reckoning is carried
97 II, 25 | NOT TO BE SOUGHT AFTER BY MEANS OF LETTERS, SYLLABLES, AND
98 II, 25, 1 | inquiries respecting God by means of numbers, syllables, and
99 II, 25, 2 | unbroken melody, through means of the interval which separates
100 II, 26, 1 | unlettered class, and by means of love to attain to nearness
101 II, 27, 1 | knowledge of them easy to him by means of daily study. These things
102 II, 27, 2 | one of them imagines, by means of their obscure interpretations
103 II, 27, 2 | intended by Him through means of arguments, enigmas, and
104 II, 27, 2 | set forth as such through means of parables and enigmas.~
105 II, 28, 4 | which is the instrument by means of which thought is expressed);
106 II, 28, 5 | men which takes place by means of a tongue to the Word
107 II, 28, 8 | occasions, too, when, by means of those letters which are
108 II, 29, 1 | nature and substance are the means of salvation, then all souls
109 II, 29, 3 | brought forth will by all means enter into the Pleroma because
110 II, 30, 3 | expressions, proving them false by means of the very terms they themselves
111 II, 30, 3 | instrumentality; for she would by no means form the images of such
112 II, 30, 3 | important beings through means of an inferior, but by a
113 II, 30, 5 | employed in his work, and by means of which he acquired his
114 II, 30, 7 | Demiurge, he would by no means have remained in the regions
115 II, 30, 8 | give friar this was done by means of the travail of their
116 II, 30, 9 | which have been made, by means of him (the Demiurge), he
117 II, 31, 2 | and misleading mankind, by means of magical deceptions, and
118 II, 31, 2 | and the apostles did by means of prayer, and as has been
119 II, 31, 3 | benefit of others our own means; and inasmuch as those who
120 II, 31, 3 | predecessors of that dragon who, by means of a deception of the same
121 II, 32, 1 | to pray for them, that by means of repentance they might
122 II, 32, 2 | or are mastered through means of labour, exercise, and
123 II, 32, 3 | anything [remarkable] by means of magic, they strive [in
124 II, 32, 5 | she perform anything by means of angelic invocations,
125 II, 33, 1 | the soul alone, through means of a dream, is remembered
126 II, 33, 3 | perceived long ago either by means of the eyes or the ears;
127 II, 33, 4 | only carry it out slowly by means of an instrument, owing
128 II, 34, 3 | things, will not by any means go far astray, inasmuch
129 II, 35, 3 | of one and the same, by means of which the one God and
130 III, pref, 1| mayest receive from me the means of combating and vanquishing
131 III, 2, 1 | truth was not delivered by means of written documents, but
132 III, 2, 2 | and] which is preserved by means of the succession of presbyters
133 III, 3, 2 | comes down to our time by means of the successions of the
134 III, 4, 2 | and all things therein, by means of Christ Jesus, the Son
135 III, 4, 2 | blasphemous address. Thus, by means of that ancient tradition
136 III, 5, 3 | the human family, and, by means of His creation, did nourish,
137 III, 7, 1 | world." And this is shown by means of the little interval [
138 III, 11, 5 | Incomprehensible [acting thus] by means of the comprehensible, and
139 III, 11, 6 | and again, the Father, by means of the Son, gives knowledge
140 III, 11, 7 | to be totally in error by means of this very Gospel, as
141 III, 11, 8 | all things in itself by means of the Gospel, raising and
142 III, 12, 4 | the impotent man, by what means he has been made whole;
143 III, 12, 9 | seek the Deity, if by any means they might be able to track
144 III, 13, 1 | nor is God so limited in means, that He should have but
145 III, 15, 2 | When they have thus, by means of questions, overthrown
146 III, 16, 1 | His name; so that by His means death was abolished, but
147 III, 16, 6 | Christ Jesus, who came by means of the whole dispensational
148 III, 17, 2 | unity among themselves by means of that layer which leads
149 III, 17, 2 | incorruption; but our souls, by means of the Spirit. Wherefore
150 III, 19, 1 | of God. For by no other means could we have attained to
151 III, 19, 3 | and strengthened through means of joints and bands by the
152 III, 20, 2 | displayed towards himself, by means of which being instructed
153 III, 21, 7 | is what "without hands" means, that His coming into this
154 III, 23, 1 | already observed; and by means of the second man did He
155 III, 23, 5 | by his conduct, through means of the girdle [which he
156 III, 24, 1 | may be vivified; and the [means of] communion with Christ
157 III, 24, 1 | earnest of incorruption, the means of confirming our faith,
158 III, 24, 1 | teachers," and all the other means through which the Spirit
159 III, 24, 2 | life, and nourishes us by means of the creation, establishing
160 III, 25, 7 | some among them, through means of the very instruction
161 IV, pref, 1| promised, add weight, by means of the words of the Lord,
162 IV, pref, 1| mayest obtain from me the means of confuting all the heretics
163 IV, pref, 4| disobedience of mankind by means of the serpent, imagined
164 IV, pref, 4| the Creator, namely, by means of all the heretics already
165 IV, 3, 1 | ignorant what the expression means, that heaven is [His] throne
166 IV, 6, 1 | Creator who supports us by means of His creation. For as
167 IV, 6, 5 | For by means of the creation itself,
168 IV, 6, 5 | God the Creator; and by means of the world [does He declare]
169 IV, 6, 5 | Maker of the world; and by means of the formation [of man]
170 IV, 6, 6 | all, and should become [a means of] judgment for the salvation
171 IV, 6, 6 | established by all [as the one means of salvation], receiving
172 IV, 9, 1 | without contradiction, He means by those things which are
173 IV, 9, 2 | longer through a glass, or by means of enigmas, but face to
174 IV, 9, 3 | believing in Him, and by means of the [successive] covenants,
175 IV, 11, 3 | the same Lord granted, by means of His advent, a greater
176 IV, 11, 3 | indeed used to hear, by means of [His] servants, that
177 IV, 12, 2 | have endeavoured by all means to bring down a greater
178 IV, 13, 2 | to instruct the soul by means of those corporeal objects
179 IV, 13, 3 | procure for himself the means of salvation), but that
180 IV, 13, 4 | doeth," He points out, by means of His own advent, the ignorance
181 IV, 14, 3 | of primary importance by means of those which were secondary;
182 IV, 14, 3 | things that are real, by means of those that are typical;
183 IV, 14, 3 | the ages is come." For by means of types they learned to
184 IV, 15, 1 | indeed, warning them by means of natural precepts, which
185 IV, 15, 1 | in mankind, that is, by means of the Decalogue (which,
186 IV, 15, 2 | people, drawing them on by means of the ordinances already
187 IV, 16, 4 | permanently with us, receiving by means of His advent in the flesh,
188 IV, 16, 5 | and without grudging, by means of adoption, to know God
189 IV, 16, 5 | maliciousness," but as the means of testing and evidencing
190 IV, 17, 5 | Him who gives us as the means of subsistence the first-fruits
191 IV, 18, 3 | sin may not the more, by means of the hypocritical action,
192 IV, 18, 3 | evil--when Cain was by no means at rest, He saith to him: "
193 IV, 20 | THINGS IN THE WORLD, BY MEANS OF THE WORD AND THE HOLY
194 IV, 20, 4 | known through Him by whose means He ordained all things.
195 IV, 20, 5 | apart from life, and the means of life is found in fellowship
196 IV, 20, 6 | by Him, but He is by no means unknown: for all things
197 IV, 20, 7 | of God which is made by means of the creation, affords
198 IV, 20, 8 | they indicated typically by means of [outward] action, seeing
199 IV, 20, 10 | aurae tenuis). For by such means was the prophet--very indignant,
200 IV, 20, 12 | However, it was not by means of visions alone which were
201 IV, 20, 12 | whoredoms," prophesying by means of the action, "that in
202 IV, 20, 12 | also); for this reason, by means of the marriage of Moses,
203 IV, 20, 12 | marriage of the Word; and by means of the Ethiopian bride,
204 IV, 21, 3 | at that time, indeed, by means of His patriarchs and prophets,
205 IV, 22, 1 | as in the beginning, by means of our first [parents],
206 IV, 22, 1 | to death; so at last, by means of the New Man, all who
207 IV, 24, 1 | wound of the serpent, by means of faith which was [exercised]
208 IV, 26, 1 | since He was pointed out by means of types and parables. Hence
209 IV, 27, 2 | of the Lord became [the means of] healing and remission
210 IV, 27, 3 | then transgress, but as a means of instruction unto us,
211 IV, 28, 2 | with the human race, by means indeed of various dispensations,
212 IV, 28, 3 | For as they were saved by means of the blindness of the
213 IV, 30, 2 | course of years, and by means of every species of slavery;
214 IV, 30, 3 | who knew not God; and by means of these same do we erect
215 IV, 31, 1 | quickening seed, and the means of their giving birth to
216 IV, 31, 2 | remission of sins, through means of whom we are quickened?
217 IV, 32, 1 | bound together, and, through means of every joint according
218 IV, 32, 2 | the things of God through means of immediate vision; and
219 IV, 33, 4 | subject to death, if not by means of a new generation, given
220 IV, 33, 7 | dispensations connected with Him, by means of which the Son of God
221 IV, 33, 10 | body is exhibited through means of our members, while the
222 IV, 33, 10 | one member, but through means of all taken together, so
223 IV, 33, 15 | prophets to have uttered by means of so long a series of Scriptures,
224 IV, 34, 4 | forth the pruning-hook by means of Abel, pointing out that
225 IV, 35, 1 | Pleroma (a summitate) through means of the seed [derived] from
226 IV, 35, 1 | intermediate abode through means of the audacious mother
227 IV, 35, 2 | the Gospel to us by their means. Therefore let them not
228 IV, 36, 2 | times [call His people] by means of adoption. For God planted
229 IV, 36, 4 | but because He has, by means of His advent, poured upon
230 IV, 36, 8 | with him, but he finds not means to perform"),--[this parable,
231 IV, 37, 2 | has given us to know by means of the prophets.~3.
232 IV, 37, 4 | which thing is done by means of obedience to God.~5.
233 IV, 37, 7 | subjection, lest by any means, when preaching to others,
234 IV, 37, 7 | having been instructed by means of them all, may be in all
235 IV, 37, 7 | man has been instructed by means of it, as also the prophet
236 IV, 39, 1 | experience of sweet and bitter by means of tasting, and the eye
237 IV, 39, 1 | between black and white by means of vision, and the ear recognises
238 IV, 39, 1 | place, casting away, by means of repentance, disobedience,
239 IV, 41, 4 | in many errors, if by any means, when they are confuted
240 V, pref, 1| and, labouring by every means in my power to furnish thee
241 V, pref, 1| their doctrines as filth by means of the celestial faith;
242 V, 1, 1 | property, not by violent means, as the [apostasy] had obtained
243 V, 1, 1 | was not its own, but by means of persuasion, as became
244 V, 1, 1 | who does not use violent means to obtain what He desires;
245 V, 1, 1 | imparting indeed God to men by means of the Spirit, and, on the
246 V, 1, 1 | immortality durably and truly, by means of communion with God,--
247 V, 2, 2 | we are also nourished by means of the creation (and He
248 V, 3, 1 | him a better man who by means of his infirmity becomes
249 V, 5, 1 | translated and caught up. For by means of the very same hands through
250 V, 11, 1 | explicit manner what it is [he means when he declares], "Flesh
251 V, 12, 5 | retained, in order that, by means of those eyes through which
252 V, 13, 2 | s] body, really fall by means of that which they grasp,
253 V, 13, 4 | to His death, if by any means I might attain to the resurrection
254 V, 14, 1 | the prophets, and that by means of Himself there should
255 V, 14, 2 | had perished, effecting by means of Himself that communion
256 V, 14, 3 | transgression. But now, by means of communion with Himself,
257 V, 15, 2 | birth, He gave sight, not by means of a word, but by an outward
258 V, 15, 3 | regeneration which takes place by means of the layer. And for this
259 V, 15, 4 | Where art thou?" That means that in the last times the
260 V, 15, 4 | so in the last times, by means of the same voice, searching
261 V, 16, 2 | man to Himself, so that by means of his resemblance to the
262 V, 16, 2 | invisible Father through means of the visible Word.~3.
263 V, 16, 3 | He has done this] also by means of His passion. For doing
264 V, 16, 3 | have come to do away, by means of that same [image], the
265 V, 17, 3 | the cross;" so that as by means of a tree we were made debtors
266 V, 17, 3 | debtors to God, [so also] by means of a tree we may obtain
267 V, 17, 4 | and especially through means of Elisha the prophet. For
268 V, 17, 4 | had negligently lost by means of a tree, and were not
269 V, 17, 4 | remarked. For as we lost it by means of a tree, by means of a
270 V, 17, 4 | it by means of a tree, by means of a tree again was it made
271 V, 18, 1 | He did not bring about by means of the creations of others,
272 V, 18, 1 | He could not by His own means impart life to His own,
273 V, 19, 1 | and was sustaining them by means of that creation which is
274 V, 19, 1 | happily announced, through means of the truth [spoken] by
275 V, 19, 1 | into bondage to death by means of a virgin, so is it rescued
276 V, 20, 1 | the "wisdom" of God, by means of which she saves all men, "
277 V, 21, 1 | conquered him. For it was by means of a woman that he got the
278 V, 21, 2 | reason He did not draw the means of confounding him from
279 V, 21, 2 | the beginning it was by means of food that [the enemy]
280 V, 21, 2 | force of his first attack by means of His Father's word. The
281 V, 21, 2 | had occurred in Adam, by means of the precept of the law,
282 V, 21, 3 | things, and subdues him by means of the commandment. Now
283 V, 21, 3 | salvation, restoring it by means of the Word--that is, by
284 V, 22, 1 | Christ alone to serve. By means of the statements of the
285 V, 22, 1 | He (Christ) would by no means have overthrown Satan by
286 V, 22, 1 | have overthrown Satan by means of His words and commandments.
287 V, 22, 1 | cannot be done away with by means of another ignorance, any
288 V, 22, 1 | casting down the apostasy by means of these expressions, He
289 V, 22, 2 | of] ministration, by any means be lifted up with pride,
290 V, 23, 2 | him a second creation by means of His passion, which is
291 V, 24, 2 | like fishes; but that, by means of the establishment of
292 V, 24, 4 | man, and man became the [means of] searching out his thoughts (
293 V, 24, 4 | things, conquering him by means of human nature, and showing
294 V, 24, 4 | be deprived of power by means of man turning back again
295 V, 25, 1 | already mentioned, but also by means of the events which shall
296 V, 25, 1 | now] worship the devil by means of many abominations, may
297 V, 26, 2 | apostasy, he now blasphemes, by means of such men, the Lord who
298 V, 28, 2 | service, he through their means performs wonders, by which
299 V, 29, 1 | wheat, and its straw, by means of combustion, serves for
300 V, 30, 1 | Moreover, another danger, by no means trifling, shall overtake
301 V, 32, 1 | commencement of incorruption, by means of which kingdom those who
302 V, 33, 1 | cup. And He cannot by any means be understood as drinking
303 V, 34, 2 | the pain of the stroke" means that inflicted at the beginning
304 V, 36, 3 | out the wisdom of God, by means of Which His handiwork,
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