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1 Text | did] what He did~ ~* ~[1. 13.] that is, that it will 2 Text | altogether . . . and [if] he [1. 15.] is a Mixed Being, half 3 Text | And what then . . ~[1. 16.] But know that if the strife 4 Text | P. 208.]~ ~ ~[l. 17.] And if they should say 5 Text | DISCOURSE AGAINST MANI.~ ~[P. 190.]~ ~LET Mani be asked about 6 Text | was really pleasant to [P. 191.] the sinners. For if when 7 Text | therefore can he accept [P. 192.] the Parts. For as his 8 Text | majority. In fruits . . ~[P. 193.] [how was the ' mixture ' 9 Text | Himself] what He does to [P. 194.] others.' But let them 10 Text | destroyed submits to the [P. 195.] will of the destroyer 11 Text | to make war with the [P. 196.] Light ? For lo, that adversary 12 Text | a change [have they [p. 197. l.4] become one nature ?] . ~ ~ 13 Text | mixed things . . . how [P. 198.] [can] Heat receive Cold 14 Text | is necessary that we [P. 199.] believe about these other 15 Text | opinion that thou hast [P. 200.] brought in ? For is it 16 Text | accomplished by means [P. 201.] of Evils. Just as therefore 17 Text | Faith thou dost conduct [P. 202.] me, and not to Discussion. 18 Text | Wilt thou compel ...~ ~[P. 203.] and how Four Entities 19 Text | say that this work is [P. 204.] subtly divided in the 20 Text | their disciples are few [P. 205.] and dispersed, how by 21 Text | of all these that are [P. 206.] in all quarters, both 22 Text | say so, though they on [P. 207.] all sides cannot avoid 23 Text | were going and . . . [P. 208.]~ ~ ~[l. 17.] And if they 24 Text | the war or . . . ,—but [P. 209.] he did know . . . and 25 Text | Jesus teaches like what [P. 210.] Mani teaches ? So that 26 Text | Natures of Darkness [P. 211.] male and those from the 27 Text | that are oppressed with [P. 212.] its heat and does not 28 Text | the Manicheans. For we [P. 213.] know the causes whereby 29 Text | colder or dimmer than [P. 214.] that was, nor was that 30 Text | as Bardaisan says, [P. 215.] inasmuch as it is in intention 31 Text | the Water . . . [P. 216. l. 3[ ... and the Wind 32 Text | conjunction with anything [P. 217.] else, and let us see if 33 Text | them prove to one who [P. 218.] wishes to ask without 34 Text | not established even [P. 219.] for itself to bind its 35 Text | something but from nothing. [P. 220.] And if we adapt ourselves 36 Text | be believed, there is [P. 221.] found as it were a condition 37 Text | of the Months as far [P. 222.] as Nisan. And when he 38 Text | all things creep,' and [P. 223.] he did not say 'Teshri 39 Text | senses which we have ; as [P. 224.] he said 'Everything that 40 Text | lighter than Water, it [P. 225.] must be that it is above 41 Text | opposite to the Fire [P. 226.] was the Water, then it 42 Text | and was 'the beginning [P. 227.] of the lowest part of 43 Text | he knew that many . . ~[P.228.] For as the Laws reprove 44 Text | Water . . . [P. 216. l. 3[ ... and the Wind would 45 Text | essence and nature ?~ ~ ~[1. 31.] [If] the Maker [rejoices] 46 Text | cleanse and refine ?~ ~ ~[l. 32.] that which is in their 47 Text | a fool, because . . ~[l. 33.] Look at this, that God 48 Text | makes everything.'~ ~ ~[l. 35.] of ourselves, when we 49 Text(3) | reference to 1 Kings xviii 38.~ ~ 50 Text | change [have they [p. 197. l.4] become one nature ?] . ~ ~ 51 Text | organs of lambs ?]~ ~[1. 40.] ... for it would have 52 Text(8) | Thrice-greatest Hermes, vol. i, pp. 414 f., 454 : also Macrobius, 53 Text | become one nature ?] . ~ ~l. 45.] ... for all I require . . . 54 Text(8) | Hermes, vol. i, pp. 414 f., 454 : also Macrobius, Somn. 55 Text | transgressors of the Laws, so [l. 7.] the Holy Scriptures reprove 56 Text | does Water love Fire that absorbs it, or Fire Water that quenches 57 Text | all: how much more (is it absurd) that he set out with Five 58 Text | is mixed with him it is acceptable to him. Till Jesus had come, 59 Text | be mixed with him and be accepted by him, (so) that if it 60 Text | lover of Good things and on account of them makes commands, 61 Text | does not agree with its activity, that is, its name (does 62 Text | their teaching, for lo, from Adam even unto Bardaisan and 63 Text | and explained as far as Adar and stopped.~ ~But if from 64 Text | again cold on cold was added to the Darkness, the opposite 65 Text | from sand, as long as thou addest its atoms one to the other 66 Text | Athena and Aphrodite the adulterous Goddess !—and if Jesus proclaimed 67 Text | because that speaker was afraid of what he had said, in 68 Text | that of a hundred years ago hotter or stronger or brighter 69 Text | even though it is a lie, agrees with itself in its teaching, 70 Text | divided in the midst of the Air, pound and break up anything 71 Text | might establish another allegory which he had himself put 72 Text | especially that (thereby) the alleviations are annulled that are accomplished 73 Text | impelling the Fire to go down alongside of the Darkness, if the 74 Text | he extirpated the Hebrews altogether . . . and [if] he [1. 15.] 75 | am 76 Text | and Hera and Athena and Aphrodite the adulterous Goddess !— 77 Text | Greeks, and about Jesus who appeared in Judaea, that 'they are 78 Text | between each of them is apprehended,11 it is clear that the 79 Text | it did not let the Fire approach the Darkness. And because 80 Text | commanded that which was approved by him. And because of sins 81 Note1 | words. In respect to this an approximately correct inference may be 82 Note2 | numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line numbers 83 Text | and the Barbarians and the Arabs, for they refine more than 84 Text | the construction of the Aramaean Philosopher. For if the 85 Text(14)| November. These are the old Aramaic names : the Edessenes generally 86 Note1 | attempt to summarise the argument from suggestions in the 87 Text | one another that division arises, as also Body and Soul bear 88 Text | retinues and Captains of armies and their forces ought to 89 | around 90 Text | Intermediary did not allow the arouser of the Darkness to rub against 91 Text | as Nisan. And when he arrived at the name of Nisan and 92 Text | wisdom and condensed by artifice. And if this is all the ' 93 Text | come to regulation as the artificer asks. For creatures which 94 Text | with a mouth that is not ashamed to repeat the truth the 95 Text | who [P. 218.] wishes to ask without contention how Natures 96 Text | about the Mother of Life, asking her to produce and leave 97 Text | regulation as the artificer asks. For creatures which are 98 Text | its own Colour and its own Aspect, and the rest of whatever 99 Text | its own voice. For five aspects each must be found for each 100 Text | exist, but on the contrary I assert that it does not exist, 101 Text | that as far as these things assist Bardaisan, so far he draws 102 Text | love Water and both went astray ? For, lo, if an evil man 103 Text | hand. But why is it that Astrology, even though it is a lie, 104 Text | know . . . and Hera and Athena and Aphrodite the adulterous 105 Text | what is the victory of the athlete but the vanquishing of his 106 Text | of Splendour and the Atlas and the rest of the others 107 Text | and the blame has been attached to One Whom blame does not 108 Note1 | mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument 109 Text | 207.] all sides cannot avoid shame. For how is Light 110 Note2 | Syriac text printed at the back of the paper volume. ~ ~ ~ ~ 111 Text | and the Hebrews and the Barbarians and the Arabs, for they 112 Text | the contrary direction and batter their faces ! And so the 113 Text | Men and Cattle and Wild Beasts, for the Sun not to burn 114 Text | really did make things more beautiful than they had been in their 115 | becoming 116 Text | with something else, and beguiled his hearers to suppose that 117 Text | found as it were a condition belonging to it that knowledge is 118 Text | and the rest of whatever belongs to it. Let him declare to 119 Text | Light? How, pray, will it be benefited by it ? For 'Fire loved 120 Text | which was underneath it and bent it downwards, the Fire did 121 Text | things from the dialect of Beth Garmai and from the dialect 122 Text | essence is strange to the better Part. For if with their 123 | beyond 124 Text | Vegetables and Fishes and Birds,—how many can eat of all 125 Text(6) | 1 The MS. has [Syriac bits], quite legible in a good 126 Text | akin to Water, though it be bitter ? For as it is diverse in 127 Text | blamed, by blaming Whom the blamers of Him are to be blamed, 128 Text | He should be blamed, by blaming Whom the blamers of Him 129 Text | does not touch. But if this blasphemy cannot be believed, there 130 Text | to make ? And if the Wind blew, lo, it would have separated 131 Text | refining' as others say, how [blind] is Bardaisan ... to cleanse 132 Text | acquired the faculty of blowing by the regulation (of the 133 Text | Fire is red, the Wind is blue, the Water is green,' though 134 Text | the Earth, and from their bo[nes] the Mountains, lo, 135 Text | have arranged for HULE the bodily organs of lambs ?]~ ~[1. 136 Text | by one by Fire from the bond of their nature ; and when 137 Text | calculation, and Medicine with its book ? And the disciples of Plato 138 Text | transformed, and witness is borne uniformly to this that, 139 Text | House and be fondled in its Bosom. But Mani compels a man 140 Note1 | in italics inside square brackets are to be regarded as conjectural 141 Text | midst of the Air, pound and break up anything thou wilt and 142 Text | ago hotter or stronger or brighter or clearer than this ; nor 143 Text | power the Fire acquired brightness and the Light extension 144 Text | Beasts, for the Sun not to burn them with the fierceness 145 Text | the Darkness endure its burning, seeing that bodies are 146 Text | tradition, and Geometry with its calculation, and Medicine with its book ? 147 Text | Lords and their retinues and Captains of armies and their forces 148 Note1 | commas are used in numerous cases where the words seem to 149 Text | ease in the shade, Men and Cattle and Wild Beasts, for the 150 Text | or other Good will be the cause of Evil. But if it is so, 151 Text | For we [P. 213.] know the causes whereby Water is transformed, 152 Text | themselves are at war and do not cease from war one with another, 153 Text | creates and fixes them : He changes, transfers, and dissolves, 154 Text | lips might speak it and chaste ears hear it, did not say ' 155 Text | Fire) kindles Wind like chips of wood, or has power with 156 Text | between the unclean and the clean. And how do they worship 157 Text | stronger or brighter or clearer than this ; nor has Water 158 Text | to these sufferings, it clears all the Entities that exist, 159 Text | and, when they have come close to it, in it and by reason 160 Text | after a hundred years is colder or dimmer than [P. 214.] 161 Text | actually dispersed, they are collected by wisdom and contracted 162 Text | about the Entities and their colours ; for he said 'the Light 163 Text | matters, so that by many coming from all quarters the Light 164 Text | on account of them makes commands, let them say who was annulling 165 Text | adultery' they did go on committing adultery, how much more 166 Text | diffuse so as to reach to its companion (in Darkness). For it is 167 Text | dialect of Edessa ; and compassed sea and land to make one 168 Text | go up,' did it overwhelm completely the Water and the Fire and 169 Text | dissolved though it be not a composition, they have confessed though 170 Text | it is not an Entity but a compound.~ ~And if they should say 171 Text | therefore that compellest me to concern myself with Faith, what 172 Text | repeat the truth the true conclusion may be said without shame, 173 Text | his mates. For if there is concord in each one of them it should 174 Text | concentrated by wisdom and condensed by artifice. And if this 175 Text | Then to Faith thou dost conduct [P. 202.] me, and not to 176 Text | a composition, they have confessed though unwillingly that 177 Text | things.~ ~Furthermore we will confute them from another quarter, 178 Note1 | brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~ ~ 179 Text | by its own power, without conjunction with anything [P. 217.] 180 Text | is convinced, not without consideration, but by prudent investigation. 181 Text | Darkness, because it also still consisted of scattered Atoms.~ ~For 182 Note2 | footnotes to the end. Those consisting of "Read [syriac] for [syriac]" 183 Text | should we say the true (constitution) of this Fire is not of 184 Text | it; and there ended the construction of the Aramaean Philosopher. 185 Note1 | inference may be drawn by consulting the Syriac text.~ ~Double 186 Text | wishes to ask without contention how Natures that are not 187 Text | collected by wisdom and contracted by diligence, and therefore 188 Text | wise they ought to have contrived to find a Teaching suitable 189 Text | manifest let that one be convicted who has much wronged God 190 Text | be so, but as one that is convinced, not without consideration, 191 Text | for each of the Entities, corresponding to the five senses which 192 Text | that is good ; and in the country of the far East 9 they say 193 Text | MARHESHWAN, 'in which all things creep,' and [P. 223.] he did not 194 Text | at Fruits and Produce and Crops and Vegetables and Fishes 195 Text(6) | expected [Syriac] in the gap (Cumont, Eecherches, i, p. 22), 196 Text | evil is good, where all the cures are generated by it.~ ~Therefore 197 Note1 | l.2] means line 2 of the current page of the accompanying 198 Text | workmen would suffice to cut through a great mountain 199 Text | of these pages : see p. cxi.~ ~ ~ ~ 200 Text | through a great mountain or to dam a mighty river, then by 201 Text | blamed, because they have dared to blame Him that is not 202 Text | produce and leave behind a daughter after her own likeness. ~ ~ 203 Text | teaching and teach it to this day, and the disciples of Jesus 204 Text | whatever belongs to it. Let him declare to us therefore what is 205 Text | witness greater than thy defeat, for what is the victory 206 Text | to remain in the Body and delay in its Habitation and dwell 207 Text | there are Souls excited by desire, and they come down beside 208 Text | probable, because it, the Soul, desires to remain in the Body and 209 Text | visible . . . Now the Fire devoured the Water and the Dust and 210 Text | would impel it towards its diameter,10 that is, against the 211 Text(10)| 1 I.e. its diametrically opposite Element.~ ~ 212 Text | bound, because it does not die, then he is refuted, in 213 Text | But it is wonderful and difficult and incredible that it even ' 214 Text | against it and its smoke to diffuse so as to reach to its companion ( 215 Text | wisdom and contracted by diligence, and therefore let us say 216 Text | come up in the contrary direction and batter their faces ! 217 Text | worship that which has no discrimination? And if because of His grace,— 218 Text | and porous, that is, the dispersal of their nature, they can 219 Text | changes, transfers, and dissolves, even illuminates.~ ~But 220 Text | either the Maker really disturbed things ignorantly—which 221 Text | for witness and not from a divine Nature. For God Who is not 222 Text(8) | 1 For the doctrine of the Bowl or Vortex (krath& 223 Text | they did proclaim these (doctrines) of the Manicheans as they 224 | done 225 Note1 | consulting the Syriac text.~ ~Double inverted commas mark quotations 226 Note1 | correct inference may be drawn by consulting the Syriac 227 Text | assist Bardaisan, so far he draws them after his will, and 228 Text | thou dost purge out the dregs from the [clear substance], 229 Text | gone out or Water that is dried up is (more) subtle.4~ ~ 230 Text(4) | small it be pounded, but dried-up water is quite invisible.~ ~ 231 Text | race, and if a good man be drowned in water the good water 232 Text | accomplished by means of pains and drugs, so when he does the evil, 233 Text | mixed in the Sea and in the dry Land and in the Heaven and 234 Text | devoured the Water and the Dust and the Stones and the Ox,3 235 Text | delay in its Habitation and dwell in its House and be fondled 236 Text | incredible that it even 'eagerly desired it and was pleased 237 Text | might speak it and chaste ears hear it, did not say 'Teshri 238 Text | say three things are at ease in the shade, Men and Cattle 239 Text | and from the dialect of Edessa ; and compassed sea and 240 Text(14)| old Aramaic names : the Edessenes generally called October ' 241 Text(6) | Syriac] in the gap (Cumont, Eecherches, i, p. 22), but the traces 242 Note2 | Note of the electronic source~ ~I have moved the 243 Text | and it went forth into empty Space. And because they 244 Text | hot above it; and there ended the construction of the 245 Text | True Entity the word of Error has been vanquished which 246 Text | seeing that not even . . . escapes them ! All these therefore 247 Text | things then he does evil, especially that (thereby) the alleviations 248 Text(11)| Fire, viz. 'to kindle,' is essentially distinct from that of Water, 249 | etc 250 Text | thou also compelled without evidence to believe me that there 251 Text | accomplished by means [P. 201.] of Evils. Just as therefore when 252 Note1 | asterisks intended to bear any exact relation to the number of 253 Text | up anything thou wilt and examine (?) it in the Sun that comes 254 Text | and that there are Souls excited by desire, and they come 255 Text | Heavens, and from their excrement the Earth, and from their 256 Text | be worse if Evil had not existed, for this would be a great 257 Text | them, why does the Good expect the Words to be mixed in 258 Text(6) | was named. We should have expected [Syriac] in the gap (Cumont, 259 Text | that point and stayed, and explained as far as Adar and stopped.~ ~ 260 Text | brightness and the Light extension and Water flow, it is clear 261 Text | Darkness, and therefore that extinguishing Intermediary did not allow 262 Text | And because of sins he extirpated the Hebrews altogether . . . 263 Text(8) | Hermes, vol. i, pp. 414 f., 454 : also Macrobius, 264 Text | direction and batter their faces ! And so the Light makes 265 Text | not yet even acquired the faculty of blowing by the regulation ( 266 Text | his will, and where they fail him and are obscure, he 267 Text(2) | 1 Lit. 'fall under.'~ ~ 268 Text | does not adapt itself to falsehood at all, if creatures were 269 Text | which is that that man spoke falsely who constructed Entities 270 Text | necessary that by means of fasting and prayer they should be ' 271 Text | knew the Primal Man, the Father of the ZIWANE, and if he 272 Text(6) | good light. Evidently the feggoka&toxos (Splenditenens) was 273 Text | But if by mixture with its fellow it becomes not-itself, then 274 Text | grace,—neither the Water His fellow-kinsman is good which drowns the 275 Text | from created things their fellows that we will bring an analogy 276 Text | those from the Good One. female ? And if not, what is the 277 Text | not to burn them with the fierceness of its rays. And how, pray, 278 Text | as they say ! How is it fighting half with the Good and half 279 Text | ought to have contrived to find a Teaching suitable for 280 Text | forward by themselves to finish the creation ? But if they 281 Text | Limbos 5 and in the Ten Firmaments, as they both have said ? 282 Text | Crops and Vegetables and Fishes and Birds,—how many can 283 Text | Maker, so He creates and fixes them : He changes, transfers, 284 Text | it] ; therefore also the flame of a fire [that] has gone 285 Text | Light extension and Water flow, it is clear that before 286 Text | teachings of these or their followers agree the one to the other, 287 Text | with Wind, it necessarily follows that Light also (was mixed) 288 Text | dwell in its House and be fondled in its Bosom. But Mani compels 289 Text | learn by experiment as a fool, because . . ~[l. 33.] Look 290 Note2 | source~ ~I have moved the footnotes to the end. Those consisting 291 Text | Captains of armies and their forces ought to be placed over 292 Text | and by reason of it they forget their own place. Now Mani 293 Text | do these feeble ones look forward by themselves to finish 294 Text | P. 203.] and how Four Entities that are visible . . . 295 Text | mixed in them of their own (free - )will ? ~ ~But see that 296 Text | therefore human nature is freed from all guiltinesses, and 297 Text | from him (the Archon) are friendly to one another ! And if ( 298 Text(11)| Paul's terminology, the fro&nhma of Fire, viz. 'to kindle,' 299 Text | proselyte!~ ~And see the fruit at variance with its root, 300 Text | unless they go into the furnace and are dissolved one by 301 Text | that creates all things.~ ~Furthermore we will confute them from 302 Text(6) | expected [Syriac] in the gap (Cumont, Eecherches, i, 303 Note1 | translation by dots, and longer gaps by asterisks, but in neither 304 Text | from the dialect of Beth Garmai and from the dialect of 305 Text | which chanced by accident he gathered from them an explanation 306 Text(14)| Aramaic names : the Edessenes generally called October 'Teshri I', 307 Text | with its tradition, and Geometry with its calculation, and 308 Text | to [which] we ought to give a place and essence by itself. 309 Text | from Freewill ?—let the Giver of it be blamed. But God 310 Text | that kills, but good that gives life [is also] in them for 311 Text | if he knew the Pillar of Glory and the . . .6 of Splendour 312 Text | to blow and the Fire to [glow] and the Darkness to smoke, 313 Text | into being ? What is the glue and paste that holds them 314 Text | Aphrodite the adulterous Goddess !—and if Jesus proclaimed 315 Text | also with the Natures he goes into them as far as he does 316 Text | Mani. Vainly then they were going and . . . [P. 208.]~ ~ ~[ 317 Text | discrimination? And if because of His grace,—neither the Water His fellow-kinsman 318 Text | teaching in Egypt and in Greece and in Judaea like that 319 Text | Wind is blue, the Water is green,' though these (notions) 320 Text(4) | that mechanically pounded grit is after all visible, however 321 Text | nature is freed from all guiltinesses, and the blame has been 322 Text | the Body and delay in its Habitation and dwell in its House and 323 Text | agree, refutation is at hand. But why is it that Astrology, 324 Text | this opinion of thine is harder than mine. For how will 325 Text | what reason do the Natures hate one another ? For lo, Body 326 Text | about Diseases that we are having a discussion. The diseases 327 Text | increases and becomes a great heap of sand (only), that is, 328 Text | something else, and beguiled his hearers to suppose that those other 329 Text | the Parts. For as his evil hearing is strange to the good Word, 330 Text | from their skins are the Heavens, and from their excrement 331 Text | And if the Darkness be the heaviest, know that the Water being 332 Text | to go up and reach to the heels and the skirts of the upper 333 Text | he did know . . . and Hera and Athena and Aphrodite 334 Text | in Judaea, that 'they are Heralds of that Good One to the 335 Text | the glue and paste that holds them from being dissolved ? 336 Text | the Laws, so [l. 7.] the Holy Scriptures reprove those 337 Text | underneath it, and the other hot above it; and there ended 338 Text | that of a hundred years ago hotter or stronger or brighter 339 Text | Habitation and dwell in its House and be fondled in its Bosom. 340 | however 341 Text | not he have arranged for HULE the bodily organs of lambs ?]~ ~[ 342 Text | ourselves. And therefore human nature is freed from all 343 Text | the Fire which burns the humble! And (see) that even the 344 Text | For he says thus in his Hymn : 'O TESHRI, Mother of the 345 Text | Fire in truth, and not an idle name, then the Water also 346 Text | really disturbed things ignorantly—which God forbid !—or that 347 Text(14)| I', and November 'Teshri II.'~ ~ 348 Text(7) | 2 Two words illegible.~ ~ 349 Text | transfers, and dissolves, even illuminates.~ ~But if they are Atoms 350 Text | not have of old and that immemorial non-defect it does not have 351 Text | Bardaisan says, it would impel it towards its diameter,10 352 Text | what prevented it from impelling the Fire to go down alongside 353 Text | Bardaisan says, [P. 215.] inasmuch as it is in intention that 354 Text | atoms one to the other it increases and becomes a great heap 355 Text | wonderful and difficult and incredible that it even 'eagerly desired 356 Note1 | great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise 357 Note1 | 10)~ ~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots, 358 Note1 | the fragments.]~ ~[P.101] indicates page 101 of the accompanying 359 Text | may seem probable to the inexperienced, but to thinkers self-contradictory ; 360 Note1 | an approximately correct inference may be drawn by consulting 361 Text | how could this which is injured endure that which injures ? 362 Text | injured endure that which injures ? But it is wonderful and 363 Note1 | terminology.~ ~Words in italics inside square brackets are to be 364 | instead 365 Text | exists a God invisible and intangible?' Wilt thou compel ...~ ~[ 366 Note1 | of the dots or asterisks intended to bear any exact relation 367 Text | therefore that extinguishing Intermediary did not allow the arouser 368 Text | its name did not suit his interpretation, nor those of the five other 369 Text | persevered and made from them interpretations, and brought things from 370 Text | Jesus ? And if 'men were intoxicated, they would not pay attention 371 Note1 | Note from Vol. 1 Introduction, p. (10)~ ~[Short lacunae 372 Text | of Bardaisan cannot go on inventing from his principles.~ ~Again 373 Text | that 'it cannot really be investigated, but it is believed without 374 Text | therefore we are required to judge and blame for the Evil who 375 Text | those of Mani, there is justification ! But if they do not agree, 376 Text | by righteousness and by keeping the commandments could it 377 Text | how [1. 22.] again did he kill Jesus ? And if 'men were 378 Text | But if Sons of the Dark be killed, as they say, why not all 379 Text | the midst of His works is killing thee ! But if the opinion 380 Text | fountains there exists evil that kills, but good that gives life [ 381 Text(11)| fro&nhma of Fire, viz. 'to kindle,' is essentially distinct 382 Text | us see if it (the Fire) kindles Wind like chips of wood, 383 Text | knew all about, like those kindred matters which had been spoken 384 Text | pass) that God might make known that from nothing created 385 Text(8) | doctrine of the Bowl or Vortex (krath&r), see Mead's Thrice-greatest 386 Note1 | Introduction, p. (10)~ ~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation 387 | last 388 Text | robbers and thieves without law . . .. to be land for their 389 Text(6) | has [Syriac bits], quite legible in a good light. Evidently 390 Text | except things given in legislation on the condition that the 391 Text | its name,' and not to be lengthy, let us say rapidly that 392 Text | Astrology, even though it is a lie, agrees with itself in its 393 Text | he is refuted, in that he lied about their death.1~ ~And 394 Text | wished to tell all these lies about plain things. For 395 Text | a daughter after her own likeness. ~ ~So again Bardaisan said 396 Text | not exist, not as one that likes it to be so, but as one 397 Text | in them, and in the Seven Limbos 5 and in the Ten Firmaments, 398 Text | dissolved and turned to lime, cannot be moulded and become 399 Text | who transgress beyond the limit of the Scriptures. But as 400 Text | together, and also that pure lips might speak it and chaste 401 Text | the Bowl; and this is a little (more) probable, even though 402 Text | there are old men that have lived more than a hundred years 403 Text | and the Mother of the [Living], or the war or . . . ,— 404 Text | is smelted from sand, as long as thou addest its atoms 405 Text | of these Atoms was really loosely woven and porous, that is, 406 Text | and their countries and Lords and their retinues and Captains 407 Text | adultery ! But if he is a lover of Good things and on account 408 Text | that is, from an essence loving adultery, as they say, why 409 Text | taught the worship of the Luminaries that Mani worships, he who 410 Text | be moulded and become one lump of brass. If therefore also 411 Text(5) | Against. Bardaisan LXXXI. (p. lxxvii).~ ~ 412 Text(5) | see Against. Bardaisan LXXXI. (p. lxxvii).~ ~ 413 Text | probable, even though both are lying, but it is (more) probable, 414 Text(8) | pp. 414 f., 454 : also Macrobius, Somn. Scip. i 12.~ ~ 415 Text | itself in its teaching, and Magianism with its tradition, and 416 Text | For lo, the good is in the majority. In fruits . . ~[P. 193.] [ 417 Text | it not clear that he is making a mock of himself ? For 418 Text | Natures of Darkness [P. 211.] male and those from the Good 419 Text | and so do the disciples of Marcion and Bardaisan and Mani. 420 Note1 | Double inverted commas mark quotations where the original 421 Text | divided also against his mates. For if there is concord 422 Text | But if it is so, then the matter would be worse if Evil had 423 Text(8) | or Vortex (krath&r), see Mead's Thrice-greatest Hermes, 424 Text(4) | meaning appears to be that mechanically pounded grit is after all 425 Text | with its calculation, and Medicine with its book ? And the 426 Text | when they say) 'the heat melted its cold and its smoke was 427 Text | them one mixing [in] the melting-pot, and one power that moulds, 428 Text | divided also against his own members, as he is divided also against 429 Text(13)| name of '—probably by a mere accident of transcription.~ ~ 430 Text | upon the Darkness in the middle ; for it turned the Fire 431 Text | great mountain or to dam a mighty river, then by those feeble 432 Text | and not created ? With thy mind taste this that I say. But 433 Text | of thine is harder than mine. For how will the Entities 434 Text | good words, why did he not mix in them (i.e. in men) Good 435 Text | they from mixtures?—let the Mixer be blamed ! But the diseases 436 Text | the Body, are they from mixtures?—let the Mixer be blamed ! 437 Text | clear that he is making a mock of himself ? For with many 438 Text | be that their nature is mortal ? And if so be that at the 439 Text | that Wind cannot set in motion the Light of the Sun.~ ~ 440 Text | turned to lime, cannot be moulded and become one lump of brass. 441 Text | melting-pot, and one power that moulds, like that of stones, which, 442 Text | suffice to cut through a great mountain or to dam a mighty river, 443 Text | and from their bo[nes] the Mountains, lo, they have ...~ .. If 444 Note1 | text has suffered great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt 445 Text | refined which thousands and myriads do not suffice for ? For 446 | myself 447 Text(6) | toxos (Splenditenens) was named. We should have expected [ 448 Text | Water and Wind with Wind, it necessarily follows that Light also ( 449 Text | because the Water was the neighbour of the Darkness, again cold 450 Text | Earth, and from their bo[nes] the Mountains, lo, they 451 | never 452 Text | thou been profited by the new and strange opinion that 453 Text | omitted, who had not heard the news of the Refinings, and the 454 Text(11)| Paul's terminology, the fro&nhma of Fire, viz. 'to kindle,' 455 Text | old and that immemorial non-defect it does not have to-day, 456 Text | seriously though he is talking nonsense, for 'the Darkness (he says) 457 Text | the East. For if from the North-West the Wind was hurled by whatever 458 Text | is green,' though these (notions) are stolen by him from 459 Note2 | of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic 460 Note2 | are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line 461 Note1 | inverted commas are used in numerous cases where the words seem 462 Text | where they fail him and are obscure, he too sails off in a vague 463 Text | thee ! But if the opinion offends Freewill, Him that generated 464 Text | teaching of our Lord, which is open and manifest let that one 465 Text | is very weak, in that its operation only went as far as putting 466 Text | but the vanquishing of his opponent ? Nor again can Entities 467 Text | and sees those that are oppressed with [P. 212.] its heat 468 Text | arranged for HULE the bodily organs of lambs ?]~ ~[1. 40.] ... 469 | otherwise 470 Text | assault to go up,' did it overwhelm completely the Water and 471 Text | Dust and the Stones and the Ox,3 and they became nothing. 472 Text | establish himself upon them he paid no attention to them and 473 Text | is, that he should not be pained. For the just Entity, as 474 Text | accomplished by means of pains and drugs, so when he does 475 Text | unemployed in Refining, and 'a pair of Initiates refine,' they 476 Text | is not preserved in the Palimpsest, but the missing part was 477 Note2 | printed at the back of the paper volume. ~ ~ ~ ~ 478 Text | he who they say is the Paraclete, that comes after three 479 Note1 | conjectural translations or paraphrases.~ ~In a few passages, where 480 Text | adversary, or he is a third party made to be an adversary 481 Text | nothing. Now (this came to pass) that God might make known 482 Note1 | paraphrases.~ ~In a few passages, where the text has suffered 483 Text | no attention to them and passed over and began with something 484 Text | being ? What is the glue and paste that holds them from being 485 Text(11)| Elements themselves, To use S. Paul's terminology, the fro&nhma 486 Text | intoxicated, they would not pay attention to these things, 487 Text | the opposite of what those people designed (when they say) ' 488 Text | they should say that all peoples are refining and cleansing 489 Text | years and they have not perceived that this Fire after a hundred 490 Text | that they should not be performed ? If Satan was annulling 491 Text | them an explanation and persevered and made from them interpretations, 492 Text | men, the hidden ones who perversely say something subtly, that ' 493 Text | construction of the Aramaean Philosopher. For if the Wind smote the 494 Text | he did, so as to shew his Philosophy. And when other sides sank 495 Text | Just as therefore when a physician does not do evil things 496 Text | ZIWANE, and if he knew the Pillar of Glory and the . . .6 497 Text(12)| 1 It is a pity that we do not know what 498 Text | tell all these lies about plain things. For these Natures 499 Text | command to sin was really pleasant to [P. 191.] the sinners. 500 Text | eagerly desired it and was pleased with it.'~ ~And if Fire 501 Text | as and also as much as it pleases the Maker, so He creates 502 Text | greater this very thing is pleasing to him, then evil beings 503 Text | interpreted as far as that point and stayed, and explained 504 Text | substance], for lo, the poison that is in the midst of 505 Text | really loosely woven and porous, that is, the dispersal 506 Text | in the midst of the Air, pound and break up anything thou 507 Text(8) | Thrice-greatest Hermes, vol. i, pp. 414 f., 454 : also Macrobius, 508 Text | by means of fasting and prayer they should be 'refined.' 509 Text | proclaimed and even worships and prays to ; and if Plato knew the 510 Text | that is, that it will preserve itself and will destroy 511 Text | of this Discourse is not preserved in the Palimpsest, but the 512 Text | Entity, what is it ?—one that preserves itself as a just one and 513 Text | of the Darkness, if the pretext of Darkness was required 514 Text | from above downwards, what prevented it from impelling the Fire 515 Text | go on inventing from his principles.~ ~Again the Manicheans 516 Note2 | relate to the Syriac text printed at the back of the paper 517 Text | first beginning this Month proclaims with its name,' and not 518 Text | they did not have these (properties), nor did the Darkness, 519 Text | declared, that as if by Prophecy the First Month was called 520 Text | it. And in this correct proportion and just balance there is 521 Text | sea and land to make one proselyte!~ ~And see the fruit at 522 Text | though the true Word of Providence places it and the countries 523 Text | without consideration, but by prudent investigation. For if from 524 Text | together, and also that pure lips might speak it and 525 Text | purification whereby thou dost purge out the dregs from the [ 526 Text | thou been profited by the purification whereby thou dost purge 527 Text | operation only went as far as putting things together. But if 528 Text | their words are wont to quarrel one with the other, because 529 Text | confute them from another quarter, in that if Fire has been 530 Text | absorbs it, or Fire Water that quenches it? And how did Fire love 531 Text | opposite of all of them. For He quickened bodies and raised the dead, 532 Text(8) | the Bowl or Vortex (krath&r), see Mead's Thrice-greatest 533 Text | remember that it is of his race, and if a good man be drowned 534 Text | He quickened bodies and raised the dead, whereas neither 535 Text | and light things in one rank or in one boundary stand 536 Text | to be lengthy, let us say rapidly that he went on and interpreted 537 Text | with the fierceness of its rays. And how, pray, did the 538 Note2 | end. Those consisting of "Read [syriac] for [syriac]" or 539 Text | fruits and torments the reapers, and sees those that are 540 Text | akin one to the other all reasonable beings know, apart from 541 Text | the good water does not recognise that it is of his family. 542 Text | refined they would also be recognised, in that Fire had become 543 Text(12)| divided and separated can be reconcentrated and regrouped.~ ~ 544 Text | Light is white, the Fire is red, the Wind is blue, the Water 545 Text | does not agree) with the Redemption that took place in it. Because 546 Text | power with Darkness as with reeds ! And if this defect that 547 Text(11)| translated 'intention' to refer to the Elements themselves, 548 Text(3) | 1 Evidently a reference to 1 Kings xviii 38.~ ~ 549 Note1 | square brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations 550 Text(12)| can be reconcentrated and regrouped.~ ~ 551 Note2 | numbers and line numbers relate to the Syriac text printed 552 Text | beings like good ones become related to him ! And why then did 553 Note1 | intended to bear any exact relation to the number of the missing 554 Text | it, the Soul, desires to remain in the Body and delay in 555 Text | the Primal Utterance which remained in created things, it makes 556 Text | drowns him and does not remember that it is of his race, 557 Text | mouth that is not ashamed to repeat the truth the true conclusion 558 Text | l. 45.] ... for all I require . . . about these mixed 559 Note1 | of the missing words. In respect to this an approximately 560 Text | commandments could it be restored ? If the ZIWANE also through 561 Text | nor Plato believe in the resurrection of the body.~ ~But indeed 562 Text | countries and Lords and their retinues and Captains of armies and 563 Text | for it would have been right that He (the Maker) should 564 Text | is good which drowns the righteous, nor the Fire which burns 565 Text | its place as a thing—by righteousness and by keeping the commandments 566 Text | mountain or to dam a mighty river, then by those feeble ones 567 Text | refining and cleansing of all Rivers and Sources and Fountains, 568 Text | of the Scriptures. But as robbers and thieves without law . . .. 569 Note2 | pages are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers 570 Text | might be refined. But the Romans are omitted, who had not 571 Text | fruit at variance with its root, in that his son is at variance 572 Note1 | the accompanying Syriac. [RP]~ ~ ~ ~ 573 Text | arouser of the Darkness to rub against it and its smoke 574 Text(1) | nature of the Archon who rules this world.~ ~ 575 Text | compels thee to compel me to run to Discussion and not to 576 Text | and were hidden, he began sailing off, and when . . . and 577 Text | and are obscure, he too sails off in a vague way. For 578 Text | Philosophy. And when other sides sank away from him and were hidden, 579 Text | should not be performed ? If Satan was annulling them, lo, 580 Text | condition that the chastiser is satisfied by them and the transgressor 581 Text | at the name of Nisan and saw that its name did not suit 582 Text | stand in equilibrium? The scales of a balance, or water and 583 Text | also still consisted of scattered Atoms.~ ~For if when [the 584 Text(8) | also Macrobius, Somn. Scip. i 12.~ ~ 585 Text | see that in fruits and in seeds and in fountains there exists 586 | seems 587 Text | torments the reapers, and sees those that are oppressed 588 Text | inexperienced, but to thinkers self-contradictory ; and because that speaker 589 Text | corresponding to the five senses which we have ; as [P. 224.] 590 Text | Entities, that 'they have been sent from the LORD of All upon 591 Text | compels a man to hear him seriously though he is talking nonsense, 592 Text | that is in them, and in the Seven Limbos 5 and in the Ten 593 Text | things are at ease in the shade, Men and Cattle and Wild 594 | shall 595 | shalt 596 Text | far as he did, so as to shew his Philosophy. And when 597 Text | names of the Months, and he shewed from them as far as he did, 598 Note1 | Introduction, p. (10)~ ~[Short lacunae are indicated in 599 Text | which thou blamest that thou shouldest be blamed. For if it (the 600 Note2 | syriac] for [syriac]" or similar have been omitted, as it 601 Text | commanded,' then a command to sin was really pleasant to [ 602 Text | For, lo, if an evil man sink in water the evil Water 603 Text | pleasant to [P. 191.] the sinners. For if when he said 'Do 604 Text | Natures. But if from their skins are the Heavens, and from 605 Text | reach to the heels and the skirts of the upper Light,' when 606 Text(4) | after all visible, however small it be pounded, but dried-up 607 Text | Philosopher. For if the Wind smote the Fire which was underneath 608 Text(8) | 454 : also Macrobius, Somn. Scip. i 12.~ ~ 609 Text | therefore when 'the Darkness sought to go up and reach to the 610 Note2 | Note of the electronic source~ ~I have moved the footnotes 611 Text | cleansing of all Rivers and Sources and Fountains, when between 612 Text | it turned the Fire to the South, and took it away, and it 613 Text | it went forth into empty Space. And because they are Atoms, 614 Text | also that pure lips might speak it and chaste ears hear 615 Text | self-contradictory ; and because that speaker was afraid of what he had 616 Text | that Good one that thou speakest about, is not Evil really 617 Note1 | quotations or to belong to a special terminology.~ ~Words in 618 Text | things corporeal cannot eat spiritual Natures. But if from their 619 Text(6) | Evidently the feggoka&toxos (Splenditenens) was named. We should have 620 Text | Glory and the . . .6 of Splendour and the Atlas and the rest 621 Text | refine the water of a single Spring ! And so look at everything, 622 Note1 | Words in italics inside square brackets are to be regarded 623 Text | as far as that point and stayed, and explained as far as 624 Text | and (so) these Natures stir up an unfalsifiable refutation 625 Text | though these (notions) are stolen by him from the Greeks. 626 Text | explained as far as Adar and stopped.~ ~But if from God allegories 627 Text | 16.] But know that if the strife becomes a discussion about 628 Text | himself ? For with many and strong men that on which he set 629 Text | hundred years ago hotter or stronger or brighter or clearer than 630 Text | one who is to be destroyed submits to the [P. 195.] will of 631 Text(12)| meaning seems to be that substances that can be divided and 632 Text | that is dried up is (more) subtle.4~ ~Let us say further against 633 Text | proclaiming a Refining in succession, as Mani says, how is it 634 Text | chastiser is not that he should suffer, so also will be the will 635 Note1 | passages, where the text has suffered great mutilation, italics 636 Text | the chastiser there is no suffering, so when one who is to be 637 Text | the Wind would not have sufficed of itself to blow and the 638 Note1 | summarise the argument from suggestions in the fragments.]~ ~[P. 639 Text | saw that its name did not suit his interpretation, nor 640 Text | contrived to find a Teaching suitable for a few, so that it might 641 Note1 | italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument from suggestions 642 Text(9) | 2 Lit. ' of the Sun-rising.'~ ~ 643 Text | beguiled his hearers to suppose that those other things 644 Text | bodies. And it is to be supposed about them in their own 645 Text | if again it is left as a surplus, it is possible that by 646 Text(5) | 1 Syr. [Syriac] : see Against. 647 Text | him seriously though he is talking nonsense, for 'the Darkness ( 648 Text | to be land for their tares.~ ~Therefore let them establish 649 Text | into Oil and into the many tastes thereof. What therefore 650 Text | there were some of old time Teachers of the Truth,—for they say 651 Text | when we have found that the teachings of these or their followers 652 Text | against those who wished to tell all these lies about plain 653 Text | Seven Limbos 5 and in the Ten Firmaments, as they both 654 | thence 655 | thereby 656 | thereof 657 Text | Scriptures. But as robbers and thieves without law . . .. to be 658 | thine 659 Text | the inexperienced, but to thinkers self-contradictory ; and 660 Text | their adversary, or he is a third party made to be an adversary 661 Text | separated and refined which thousands and myriads do not suffice 662 Text(8) | Vortex (krath&r), see Mead's Thrice-greatest Hermes, vol. i, pp. 414 663 Text | it is acceptable to him. Till Jesus had come, then, he 664 Text | that there were some of old time Teachers of the Truth,—for 665 Text | Entity tormenting and being tormented from itself ? And if it 666 Text | that which is of one Entity tormenting and being tormented from 667 Text | Sun burns the fruits and torments the reapers, and sees those 668 Text(6) | light. Evidently the feggoka&toxos (Splenditenens) was named. 669 Text(6) | Eecherches, i, p. 22), but the traces are more like [Syriac].~ ~ 670 Text | and Magianism with its tradition, and Geometry with its calculation, 671 Note2 | has not been possible to transcribe the fragments of Syriac. 672 Text(13)| probably by a mere accident of transcription.~ ~ 673 Text | fixes them : He changes, transfers, and dissolves, even illuminates.~ ~ 674 Text | Scriptures reprove those who transgress beyond the limit of the 675 Text | treats one that has not transgressed against it as a wicked one: 676 Text | as the Laws reprove the transgressors of the Laws, so [l. 7.] 677 Text(11)| understand the word here translated 'intention' to refer to 678 Note1 | lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots, and longer gaps 679 Note1 | regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~ ~In a few 680 Text | itself as a just one and treats one that has not transgressed 681 Text | uniformly to this that, lo, by trees it is transformed into Wine 682 Text | which Bardaisan says ?—for truly indeed it is not of it. 683 Text | Faith ? But if thou dost turn to Discussion I will leave 684 Text | and at the last it also turns to nothing. But if thou 685 Text | designed allegories and types in their names. For lo, 686 Text | refined in the mouth of the unbelievers, and how are the Parts of 687 Text | distinction between the unclean and the clean. And how do 688 Text(11)| 2 I understand the word here translated ' 689 Text | All these therefore are unemployed in Refining, and 'a pair 690 Text | said above, this which is unexceptionable I say 'How dost thou compel 691 Text | these Natures stir up an unfalsifiable refutation against those 692 Text | transformed, and witness is borne uniformly to this that, lo, by trees 693 Text | because they have not acquired unity from love nor equilibrium 694 Text | against the just and the unjust they come up in the contrary 695 | unto 696 Text | they have confessed though unwillingly that they were not even 697 Text | heels and the skirts of the upper Light,' when it 'made an 698 Text(11)| Elements themselves, To use S. Paul's terminology, the 699 | used 700 Text | the Power of the Primal Utterance which remained in created 701 Text | obscure, he too sails off in a vague way. For he declared that 702 Text | unto Bardaisan and to Mani. Vainly then they were going and . . . [ 703 Text | the word of Error has been vanquished which brought Entities into 704 Text | victory of the athlete but the vanquishing of his opponent ? Nor again 705 Text | and Produce and Crops and Vegetables and Fishes and Birds,—how 706 Text | have said above has been verified, that it is because of two 707 Text | or water and oil put in a vessel, prove that the lighter 708 Text | defeat, for what is the victory of the athlete but the vanquishing 709 Text | and if Plato knew the Virgin of Light . . .7 and the 710 Text | Wind, Darkness, experiment, vision—let us see therefore if 711 Text | own texture,15 and its own voice. For five aspects each must 712 Text | disciples make their words void. For if the refinings are 713 Note2 | at the back of the paper volume. ~ ~ ~ ~ 714 Text(8) | doctrine of the Bowl or Vortex (krath&r), see Mead's Thrice-greatest 715 Text | created out of these atoms, I want to learn how, when atoms 716 Text | Heat receive Cold and be warm like it seeing that this 717 Text | creative power' it is very weak, in that its operation only 718 Text | Darkness because of its weight the lowest of all of them ( 719 Text | cast it. For opposite the Western one it is set in the East. 720 Text(11)| of Water, viz. 'to make wet.'~ ~ 721 | while 722 Text | for he said 'the Light is white, the Fire is red, the Wind 723 | whole 724 Text | shade, Men and Cattle and Wild Beasts, for the Sun not 725 Text | that comes in through the window, and see that it appears 726 Text | prove to one who [P. 218.] wishes to ask without contention 727 Text | mixture ' arranged in wolves and lambs ? If (the Maker) 728 Text | which injures ? But it is wonderful and difficult and incredible 729 Text | itself ; for their words are wont to quarrel one with the 730 Text | kindles Wind like chips of wood, or has power with Darkness 731 Text | But if thou say that this work is [P. 204.] subtly divided 732 Text | set out that he with a few workmen would suffice to cut through 733 Text | Atoms was really loosely woven and porous, that is, the 734 Text | be convicted who has much wronged God and the Dead.~ ~For 735 Text(3) | Evidently a reference to 1 Kings xviii 38.~ ~