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perly that had been leti him. Abandoning the old locali , he took up his abodo in tho middie of the city, where thehing ol Persia had his residenco; and there altering hisname, ho called himself Manes insisad os Corbicius, or, tos in more correctis not Manes, but Mani : for that is thehind of inflection amployed in the Persian languam. No , When this My had grown to be a man of well-nio fix years of age,' he had acquired great erudition in ali thobranches of learning taught in those paris, and I mightalmost say that in these ho surpassed ali othera. Neverihelessho had Men a stili more diligent student of the doctrines eontainia in theso four books; and ho had also gained three
sed them Hl by himself. Then it foemed good to himio send his discipies, with the doctrines Which ho had committed to writing in tho books, into tho upper districis of that
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54. But after these eventa they returnin to their master, and reported What had besallen them; and at tho inmo timethey got an account of the numerous ills Which had ove tinen him. When, thereiore, they got accem to him, as I
The tot invis, edictum proposuit in vita,' etc. For in vita it is proposed in read invitans; and that is obnfirmed is ino Codex Reg.
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TNE DISPUTATION MITH MANES. 411uas avius they called his attention to ali ino sufferingsthv had had is endum in each severat region; and as forine rest, ctu urged it upon him stat regard ouot nom to bohad to tho question ol in W; for they had been in great terror test any of tho miseries Which wero inflicted on Uminould fiat to their o- tot. But he eounselled them tosear nothing, and rose to harangue them. And then, whilo M lay in prison, he ordered them to procuro copias of tho booka of the law of tho Christians; for theso discipies .ho had Men despalched by him throngii tho different
communities more held in execration is ali men, and mostos ali by thoso missi Whom the name of Christiana Wasan object os honour. Accordingly, on receiving a mali supply os money, they took their departure for thoso districis in which tho books of the Christians mero published eonfer ebanturi; and pretending that they Wore Christianmessenger' they requested that tho books might be stominem, missi a vieW to thela acquiring coples. d, not tomaho a tengsty narrative of this, they thus Mi possession otali tho books ot our Scriptures, and brought them bach Withthem to thola master, Who Was stili in prison. on receiving these copies, that astute personago set himself in sein out allino statements in Our books that a med is favour his notionos a dualism; Which, ho ever, Was not reatly his notion,
but raster stat of Scythianus, Who had promulgated it a long timo besors him. d just as he did in disputing withme, so thon ino, is rejecting some things and altering othera in Our Scriptures, he tried to maho out that they adoncedhia oo doctrines, only that tho namo of Christ mas attachedis them iners. That name, thereiore, ho pretendod Onthis account in assume to himselii in order that tho peoplo in the various communitios, hearing tho holy and divino me of Christ, might have no temptation to execrate and
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cleto, he took it into his head that ho himself might bo that
Paraclete; for ho had not read With sussicient care to observethat the Paraclete had come atready,-namely, at tho timowhen the apostles Were stili vpon earth. Accordinin Whenhe had mado up these implous inventions, he sent his disciplosalso to proclaim these fictions and errore With ali boldness, and to mine these salso and novet words known in every quarteri
But when tho hing of Persia learned this iaci, ho preparedio inmet condign punishment upon him. Manes, hoWoer, received information of the hing's intention, having been Warned os it in fleep, and made his escape out os prison, and
With a very large sum os money. AsterWards ho took up his residence in the castio os Arabion; and hom that place hesent by tho hand of Turbo the letter Which he Wrote in o Marcellus, in Whicli letter he intimated his intention of visibing him. On his arrivat there, a contest toa place betneon him and me, resembling the disputation Which you have witnessed and listoned to hero; in Which discussion .esought to stio , as far as it Was in Our po er, that he wasa salse prophet. I may add, that tho heeper of the prison Who had let him escape Was punished, and that the hing gaveorders that tho man should be fought for and apprehended herevor lio might be found. And as these things have come under my oKn cognizance, it Was needsul that I inouldalso malis the fact known to you, that search is being madefor this fellow even to tho present day by the hing of Persia. 55. On hearing this, the multitude Wished to selete Manes
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come, and crossed the river, and effected his roturn to thoe se of Arabion.' There, ho evor, he Was asterWatas ap
camo under the knowedge of Archelaus at a later period, he added an account of them to the formor discussion, so that ait tho facts might be mado known to ait, evenas I, Who limo Written tho narrative of inseripsi thesemattere, havo explained the circumstances in What precedes. And ait tho Christians, theresore, having assembled, resolved that tho decision should bo given against him, transmittingstat as a sori os epilogus to his death whicli mould bo in proper consonanco mitti the other circumstances of his liso. Besidos that, Archelaus added Words to tho tollo ing offeci: y brethren, let none os Du be incredulous in regard tothe statementa made by me: I refer to the assertion that
3 The tot oves, evadere potuit dum nemo eum insequeretur. Sed populus, eum Archelai quem libenter audiebant relatione teneretur,' etc. The Codex Reg. Alex. Vat. maci, evadere potuit dum ne eum inaequeretur is populus, et Archelai quem libenter audiebant relations tenerentur.' Muth sugginis, dum eum nemo insequeretur, sed popul Mehelai,' ete.' The samo codex Vat. reada Adrabion here. Tho codex Reg. Alex. Vat. enda Mith theae votas. Disjtjgsd by OOOle
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414 THE REMAINS OF BIS P ARCHELAUS Manea was not himself the firat author of this implous dogma, but that it Was only made public by him in certain regio
of tho earth. For assuredly that man is not at onco to berechonia tho author of anything Who has simply been the bearer of it to some quarter or other, but onb he has a right to that credit .ho has been the discoverer os it. For as thehelmsman who receives sto allip Which another has besti, may convey it to any countries he pleases, and yst he remalasono .ho has had nothing to do With the construction of the Vesset, so also is this man's position to be underet d. Forho did not impari ita origin to this matter reatly hom thebeginning ; but ho mas only tho means of transmittire tomen What had been dimovered by another, as - λοπ ontho evidenco os trusimorthy testimontes, on the ground of hich it has been our purpose in prove to you that the in mtion of this michodness did not como fram Manes, but that itoriginaled mith another, and that Othor indoed a foreigner, ho appeared a long time beforo him; and surther, that the dogma remat ned unpublished for a timo, uniit at leno,
tho doctrines Which had thus boon lying in obscuri ior acertain period mero brought forward publiely by his as itthey Were his oWn, the titie of the writer having been deletia, as I havo fhown above. Among the Porsians there Was also a certain promulgator es similar tenera, one Basilides, es more
codex Casinensia retas, non ex Manen originem mali hujus Manes esse.' We adopi the conjectura, non ex Mane originem mali
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aposties. This man was οξ a shrowd disposition himself, andas ho observed that at that time ali other subjecta Were pro cupied, ho determined is assim that inmo dualism Whichmas maintainin also by Scythianus. And as, in fine, he had nothing to advinco Which Was properly his oWn, he brought tho svings of othera bosore his adversarios.y And ali his
ori contain somo matters at onco dissiculi aud extremeb
thiin book of vhich certain passages ars inven hy Clement of Alexandria in tho Durth book of his Stromateis. It is not olear, hoWoer, Whether that Gospes on .hita Baallidis Hoto vas ino Gospes of tho Apostles, or another Which he made up for himself, and of vhita mention is made in Origin's firet Homily on Luhe, in Jerome'a prologus to hia commentary on Hattho' and in Ambrose's prologus to tho Gospes of he. - may add that Gimeter Studio una Mitthen, i. 1830, p. 397 dentis that the person meant here is Basilides ine Gnostio, speciallyon account of the peculiar designation, Basilides quidam antiquior. Buthia objectiona ars combalad by Baur and Neander. Seo the mures
3 mis tot is, aliis dictis proposuit adversariis.' Pere a me muroad, aliorum dicta, eto. Tho teri is, ne marium aermonem uberemque salutaris sermo praestavit.' My it bo - tho mord es salvation furniahed tho mordmhich maa requisite, etc. 23 The tot is, per parvulam divitia et pauperis naturam sine radice et sine laeo re a supervenientem unde pullulaverit indicat.' Thomassing Mema delective. But tho generat intention of thia very obscuroand fragmentary sentenco appeara to ven above. So Mander
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then contain a strange alium) Word; ' and, as certain parties have been thus minded, Will ye not also ali be offendia withtho book ilaeis, which has such a be nning as thisi But Basilides, roturning to the subjeci aster an introduction os some sive hundred lines versibiis , more or les' procoetithus: Give up this vain and curious variation uarietati), and let us rather find out What inquiries the lare ners barbari' havo instituted on the subject of mod and evit, and what opinions they have been led in adopi on ali these subjecis. For certain among them havo maintained that
that is in say, that in the origins of things iners Wore lightand darkness, whicli existed of themselves, and whita verenot morely declared to exist.' Whilo thoso subsisted by themselves, they led each iis oWn proper modo os isse, mehas it Was iis Will to lead, and such as Was competent is it; for in the caso os ali things, What is proper to any one is also in amity With the fame, and nothing seems evit to itseli. But aster they came to know each other, and aster tho daris ness began to contemplate tho light, thon, as is fired With a passion for something superior to iraeis, the datanem preMedon to havo intercourse With tho light.'
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From crrit of Jerusalem, Catecheses, vi. φ 27-29.
Tha fragment is introdueed by Cyril in tu following
tho test in tho presencs of philosophical judges, this person convened an assembly of Grecian auditora, so as to precludotho possibili οξ iis being alleged that the judges Were partiat, as might havo been the case had they been Chri