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m hi consecrato the whole mater for those Who mera beingregeneraled. Thus it is not tho body onj, but the foui, that me cleanse. It is accordingly a sim of the sanctibingos Our invisibie pari, and of the straining in from the ne and spiritual creation of the unclean spiriis that have gotmixod up With the foui. VIII. μ The water abovo tho heaven.' Sinco baptism is performed by Water and the Spirit as a protection against tho tWosold firo, that which lays hold of What is visibie, and that which lays hold of What is invisibis; and of neces- si , thero being an immateriai element of Water and amateriat, is it a protection against the twosoldy fire. Andthe earthly Water cleanses the body; but tho heavenly Water, by Nason os iis being immateriai and invisibis, is an emblemos the Hob Spirit, who is tho purifier of What is invisibie, as the water of the Spirit, as the other of the body. IX. God, out oi goodness, hath mingled fear With good-ness. For What is beneficiat for each one, that He also supplies, as a physician to a sicli man, as a fallier to his in- subordinata child: For ho that sparoth his rod haioth hisson Prov. xiii. 24 . And tho Lord and His apostlos Walhedin the mitit os fear and laboura. When, then, the amic-tion is sent in tho person os a righteous mari, it is either homthe Lord rebuhing him for a sin committed before, or guard- ing him on account of the future, or not preventing by the
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120 SELE TONS FROMasraid, stat is thsy received not in inis Worid the punishment
attainJ. For neither have κε attained est, nor do we lachall. But We have received, as it Were, an earnest of the ete nai Nessings, and of the ancestrat riches. The provisions for the Lord's way ars tho Loris beatitudes. For Ho saidi
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122 SELECTIONS FROMus into being by means of men, and trained us by means os
y The mining is, εἰ μη παρήσει προς το οἰκεῖον τέλος; and the Latintranslator rendera, si non segnes simus ad finem proprium. It Mema
berier, missi Sylburgius, to tari εἰ μη aa equivalent to εἰ δὲ μη, and to
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shining, stainless. XXII. Since the movement of tho sout is self-originaled, tho graco os God demanda from it What the foui possesses, Willingness as ita contribution to salvation. For the foui
ceived, of the exercise of care and of abili . Wherosors God has andoWod tho foui With Deo choico, that He may show itiis duin and that it choosing, may receive and retain.
XXIII. As through tho body tho Lord spine and healed, so also formerly by the propheis, and noW by the aposties
XXIV. For We mers of the earin. . . . Caesar is thΘ
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124 SELECTIONS FROMrender the sarthly things, which ws bore in the imago of thoearthly, and the things os God to God. For each ons os tho
rates the Wheat hom the chin, that is, hom tho materialhush, by the Spirit; and the chin is separated, being sanned
by the wind : so also the Spirit possesses a poWer of separatingruateriai forces. Since, then, some things are produced fromwhat is unproduced and indestructibi'-stat is, the germs otii&,-the wheat also is stored, and the material pari, as longas it is conjoined Mith the superior pari, remains; Whens aratod irom it, it is destroyed; for it had iis existoneo in another thing. This separating element, then, is the Spirit, and the destrying element is the fire: and materiai firo isto bs understood. But since that Which is saved is lihe wheat, and that which grows in the sota liks chall, and the one is incorporeat, and that Which is separated is material ; to thoincorporeat He opposes spirit, Which is rarefied and pure almost more so than mind; and to the materiai Me opposeqfiro, not as being evil or bad, but as strong and cap te ofcloansing aWay evit. For fire is conceived as a good force and powersui, destructive of What is baser, and conservativo ofwhat is bellor. Whereiore this fire is by the propheis called
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Tho poWer of fim is tWοfold: One poWer conduces to tho production and maturing os fruits and of animais, of Whieli the sun is the imago; and the oster to consumption and destruction, as terrestriat fire. When, then, God is called a
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SELECTIONS FROMmagnet, repelling other matter, attracta iron alone is reason Massinity; so also boori, though many read them, attraci thosealone Who are cap te os comprehending them. For the word
are enutous of those in their oWn house more than strangers.
ture is reari one is helped to faith, another to moralit' anda third is freed hom superstition by tho knowledgo of things. Tho athlete, Who knows the olympio stadium, strips for training, contends, and becomes Victor, tripping up his antagonista who contend against his scientific method, and fghting out tho contest. For scientific knowledge γνωσις) is necessaryboth for the training of the foui and for gravity oi conduci; mahing the faithfui more activo and hoen observers of things. For as there is no belleving Without elementary instruction, so neister is there comprehension Without science γνώσι0. XXIX. For What is useful and necessary to salvation,
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a salutary honey, Which is at once sWeet and pungent. Sothat, above ali, the Gnostic preserves the decorous along Withthat Which is in accordance With reason. For passion beingeut aWay and stript oss irem the whole foui, he hencelarthconsoris and lives With What is nobtest, which has noW becomo pure, and emancipaled to adoption. XXXII. Pythagoras thought that he who gave iningstheir names, ought to be regarded not only the most intelligent, but the oldest of the Wise men. Ws must, then, searchtho Scriptures accuratein since they are admitted to beexpressed in parabies, and irom tho names hunt out the
unto the fure Vision and comprehension os truth.
XXXIII. Lighting, then, our torta at the fource of that licti, by the passionato destre Whieli has it lax iis objeci, and
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Ηs called inose menda and brethren who is destre and pu fuit almod after lieness to the Divini . XXXIV. Pure places and meadows have received vesces and visions of holy phantasms. But every man who hasbeen persectb purified, shali be thought mortis of divino
XXXVI. It is, thereiore, equalty requisite for him Whowishes to have a pupil Who is docile, and has blondod faithwith aspiration, to exerciso himself and constantly to study by himself, investigating the truth of his speculations; and whentis thinks himself right, to descend to questions regardingthings contiguous. For the young birds mahe attempta tofly in the nest, exercising their Wings. XXXVII. For Gnostic virtve everyWhere mines mangood, and mee and harmiess,' and painless, and blossed, and ready to associato in the best Way With ali that is divino, in the best Way With men, at once a contempl*tive and active divine image, and turas him into a lover of What is mod by love. For What is good το καλοψ, as there it is contem-