Second to Hypatius against Mani and Marcion and Bardaisan



  • The self-contradictions in Mani's Teaching.

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1. 1 For the Syriac Text of Discourses ii.-v., see pp. 1-185. 


  • If it were true, the Maker would be foolish or inexperienced.
2. 1 Or perhaps "easy," "obvious." See note on p. 12.


  • Why was the Father of the Archons left alive and imprisoned?
3. 1 Or perhaps "indulgence." See note on p. 14.


  • How is the amount of Light received by the Moon always the same ?
4. 1 Or "of arithmetic." See note on p. 19.


  • The Manichaean teaching about the Sun.
5. 1 An ironical exclamation.


  • Mani's teaching about the Luminaries and Disgorgings is ludicrous.
6. 1 Cf. pp. xxxvi. l. 10, xxxviii. l. 27. 
7. 1 The radish is said by the native Arabic authorities to produce disagreeable belchings (see the Lisan-al-'Arab, xiv.[...]


  • Darkness would not leave its natural Domain as Mani taught.
8. 2 [Syriac] in the Syriac occurs only here and on p. 73, l. 10, but it is found frequently in the Nabataean Inscriptions.


  • Darkness would be contented only in its own natural Domain.
9. 1 Or "Place."


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