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Irenaeus, Refutation Of All Heresies, 1.2.2


nanBut there rushed forth in advance of the rest that AEon who was much the latest of them, and was the youngest of the Duodecad which sprang from Anthropos and Ecclesia, namely Sophia, and suffered passion apart from the embrace of her consort Theletos. This passion, indeed, first arose among those who were connected with Nous and Aletheia, but passed as by contagion to this degenerate AEon, who acted under a pretence of love, but was in reality influenced by temerity, because she had not, like Nous, enjoyed communion with the perfect Father. This passion, they say, consisted in a desire to search into the nature of the Father; for she wished, according to them, to comprehend his greatness. When she could not attain her end, inasmuch as she aimed at an impossibility, and thus became involved in an extreme agony of mind, while both on account of the vast profundity as well as the unsearchable nature of the Father, and on account of the love she bore him, she was ever stretching herself forward, there was danger lest she should at last have been absorbed by his sweetness, and resolved into his absolute essence, unless she had met with that Power which supports all things, and preserves them outside of the unspeakable greatness. This power they term Horos; by whom, they say, she was restrained and supported; and that then, having with difficulty been brought back to herself, she was convinced that the Father is incomprehensible, and so laid aside her original design, along with that passion which had arisen within her from the overwhelming influence of her admiration.


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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 1.2 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

1.2. וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יִשְׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם שֶׁרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה וְעוֹף יְעוֹפֵף עַל־הָאָרֶץ עַל־פְּנֵי רְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם׃ 1.2. וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵי תְהוֹם וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים מְרַחֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם׃ 1.2. Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters."
2. New Testament, John, 19.30 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

19.30. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
3. Clement of Alexandria, Excerpts From Theodotus, 33.3, 41.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

4. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 1.2.3-1.2.6, 1.4.1, 1.4.3, 1.4.5, 1.5.4, 1.9.5, 1.10, 1.10.3, 1.11.1-1.11.3, 1.11.5, 1.12.1, 1.12.3-1.12.4, 1.21.1-1.21.5, 1.29.4, 1.30.2-1.30.3, 1.30.5, 6.32.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

1.10. But Leucippus, an associate of Zeno, did not maintain the same opinion, but affirms things to be infinite, and always in motion, and that generation and change exist continuously. And he affirms plenitude and vacuum to be elements. And he asserts that worlds are produced when many bodies are congregated and flow together from the surrounding space to a common point, so that by mutual contact they made substances of the same figure and similar in form come into connection; and when thus intertwined, there are transmutations into other bodies, and that created things wax and wane through necessity. But what the nature of necessity is, (Parmenides) did not define.
5. Tertullian, Against The Valentinians, 4.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

6. Nag Hammadi, The Tripartite Tractate, 77.15-77.25, 128.27-128.28, 128.30 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

7. Plotinus, Enneads, 5.1.1 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

8. Augustine, The City of God, 10.23 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

10.23. Even Porphyry asserts that it was revealed by divine oracles that we are not purified by any sacrifices to sun or moon, meaning it to be inferred that we are not purified by sacrificing to any gods. For what mysteries can purify, if those of the sun and moon, which are esteemed the chief of the celestial gods, do not purify? He says, too, in the same place, that principles can purify, lest it should be supposed, from his saying that sacrificing to the sun and moon cannot purify, that sacrificing to some other of the host of gods might do so. And what he as a Platonist means by principles, we know. For he speaks of God the Father and God the Son, whom he calls (writing in Greek) the intellect or mind of the Father; but of the Holy Spirit he says either nothing, or nothing plainly, for I do not understand what other he speaks of as holding the middle place between these two. For if, like Plotinus in his discussion regarding the three principal substances, he wished us to understand by this third the soul of nature, he would certainly not have given it the middle place between these two, that is, between the Father and the Son. For Plotinus places the soul of nature after the intellect of the Father, while Porphyry, making it the mean, does not place it after, but between the others. No doubt he spoke according to his light, or as he thought expedient; but we assert that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit not of the Father only, nor of the Son only, but of both. For philosophers speak as they have a mind to, and in the most difficult matters do not scruple to offend religious ears; but we are bound to speak according to a certain rule, lest freedom of speech beget impiety of opinion about the matters themselves of which we speak.


Subjects of this text:

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achamōth,expulsion from pleroma O'Brien (2015), The Demiurge in Ancient Thought, 221
aeons Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
angel Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
armstrong,a. h. Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
baladi,naguib Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
baptism Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
christ Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 167, 170
cleanthes' appeal to indifference,free will" Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
cosmology Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
creator,creation Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
demiurge Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
experience Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
father,fatherhood Albrecht (2014), The Divine Father: Religious and Philosophical Concepts of Divine Parenthood in Antiquity, 348
father Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
freedom,and swerve of atoms Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
freedom,and will Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
freedom,autexousion,self-determination Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
gilbert,neal Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
gnosis' Albrecht (2014), The Divine Father: Religious and Philosophical Concepts of Divine Parenthood in Antiquity, 348
gnostic,gnosticism Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
gnostics Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
heresy,division/multiplicity of Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 162
holy spirit Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 167, 170
horos,boundary,cross Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 167
image of god Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
indefinite dyad Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 167
irenaeus,as source for sophia myth O'Brien (2015), The Demiurge in Ancient Thought, 220
irenaeus,church father Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
irenaeus,heresiological innovations Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 161, 162
limit van den Broek (2013), Gnostic Religion in Antiquity, 179
lucretius,epicurean,free will Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
metaphysics Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
monogenes\u2003 Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
monogenes (only-begotten) Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 167
only-begotten van den Broek (2013), Gnostic Religion in Antiquity, 179
ophites Dunderberg (2008), Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus. 240
perverted will Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
philosophy Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
pleroma O'Brien (2015), The Demiurge in Ancient Thought, 221
pleroma\u2003 Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
plotinus,neoplatonist,pride,will (boulesthai,thelein),and tolma Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
pride,connotes tolma in plotinus Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
pride,gnostics Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
pride,neopythagoreans Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
pseudo-hippolytus,gnostic creation myth O'Brien (2015), The Demiurge in Ancient Thought, 220, 221
ptolemy van den Broek (2013), Gnostic Religion in Antiquity, 179
ptolemy (gnostic) Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 161
pythagoreans,tolma and pride Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
rist,john Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
ritual Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
savior Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
sophia Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 167, 170; van den Broek (2013), Gnostic Religion in Antiquity, 179
sophia prounikos Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 37
sophias partner Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 170
stoic,stoicism Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
syzygy O'Brien (2015), The Demiurge in Ancient Thought, 221
theletos Thomassen (2023), Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus. 170
valentinus,valentinianism Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
will,boulēsis Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
will,freedom Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
wisdom Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 259
wisdom (sophia),lower wisdom (achamoth) Dunderberg (2008), Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus. 240
zeno of citium,stoic,hence different conception of freedom from emotion(apatheia) Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 334
γνώμη Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 161, 162
διάφορος Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 161, 162
μάχη Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 162
παράδοσις Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 162
πλάνη Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 161, 162
πρᾶγμα Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 161
ἀπολύτρωσις Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 162
ἀσύμφωνος Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 162
ἄστατος Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 162
ἐπέκτασις Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 161, 162