C. And [also] of the regenerated ^ spiritual [man], in all things

of like substance vrith that Man.
This (H. he says) is what was spoken by the Saviour :
" If ye do not drink My Blood and eat My Flesh, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of the Heavens.*
^ But even if ye drink (H. he says) the Cup which I drink,^ where I go, there ye cannot come." *
1 This seems to connect immediately vrith the end of § 16. See B. 100, n. 4.
' S. probably had *'For," which was glossed by J. into "Moreover."
' Bat this "statue,'' as we have seen, was the ithyphallm simply.
« OrTypalMan.
^ Or, generated or bom from Above.
• Cf, John vi 63, which reads in T. R : " Amen, Amen, I say unto you, if ye eat not the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, ye have not Life in yourselves."
7 Cf. Matt XX. 22»Mark x. 38 (where the phrase is put in a question).
" Cf. John viii. 21 and xiii. 33. It is remarkable that in the text of our Qoepels these logoi are addressed to the Jews ; C, however, takes them as sayings addressed to the disciples. It is possible that we may have here a "source" of the Fourth Qoepeil
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For He knew (H. he says) of which nature each of His disciples is, and that it needs must be that each of them should go to his own nature.
For from the twelve tribes (H. he says) He chose twelve disciples, and through them He spake to every tribe.^
On this account (H. he says) all have not heard the preach- ings of the twelve disciples ; and even if they hear, they cannot receive them. For the [preachings] which are not according to their nature are contrary to it.
S. This [Man] (H. he says) the Thracians who dwell round Haimos call Korybas,^ and the Phrygians in like manner with the Thracians; for taking the source of His descent from the Head Above* —
J. — and from the expressive Brain * —
S. — and passing through all the sources of all things beneath — how and in what manner He descends we do not understand.
J. This is (H. he says) what was spoken :
"His Voice we heard, but His Form we have not Been."*
For (H. he says) the Voice of Him, when He hath been delegated and expressed, is heard, but the Form that descended from Above, from the Inexpressible [Man] — what it is, no one knows. It is in the earthy plasm, but no one has knowledge of it.
This [Man] (H he says) is He who " inhabiteth the
' These " tribesi" then, were not the Jewish tribes, ten of which did not return, but twelve typical natures of men, and something else.
' See Immisch's excellent art, '* Kureten u. Eorybanten," in Boecher, ii. 1&87-1628.
> Kopi$€ks, the Lord of the Corybantes, or frenzied priests of Cybele, is thus feigned by mystical word-play to be 4 dv^-xopv^^t- ^f, '^he who descends from the head.''
« Of. C, § 14.
* Apparently a quotation from some Jewish apocryphon. Cf, John V. 37 1 ^ Ye have never at any time heard His voice nor have ye seen His form."
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Flood/' ^ according to the Psalter, who cries and calk from " many waters." '
The " many waters " (H. he says) are the manifold genesis of men subject to death, from which He shouts and calls to the Inexpressible Man, saying :
•• Save my [? Thy] alone-begotten from the lions."*
To this [Man] (H. he says) it hath been spoken:
"Thou art my Son, 0 Israel,* fear not; should'st thou pass through rivers, they shall not engulph thee ; should'st thou pass through fire, it shall not consume thee."'^
By "rivers" (H. he says) he* means the Moist Essence of Genesis, and by ''fire" the impulse and desire towards Grenesis.
And : " Thou art mine ; fear not" ^
And again he * says :
" If a mother forget her children so as not to take pity on them or give them suck, [then] I too will forget you " ^ — saith Adamas (H. he says) to his own men.
" Nay, even if a woman shall forget them, I will not forget you. Upon my hands have I graven you." ^®
And concerning His Ascent —