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| Their Diversity of Sentiment Affects the Very Central Doctrine of Christianity, Even the Person and Character of the Lord Jesus. This Diversity Vitiates Every Gnostic School.
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Chapter XXXIX.—Their Diversity of Sentiment Affects the Very
Central Doctrine of Christianity, Even the Person and Character of the
Lord Jesus. This Diversity Vitiates Every Gnostic School.
Now, concerning even the Lord Jesus, into how
great a diversity of opinion are they divided! One party form Him of
the blossoms of all the Æons.6932
| 6932 See above, ch. xii. p.
510. | Another party
will have it that He is made up only of those ten whom the Word
and the Life6933
| 6933 The Æons
Sermo and Vita. | produced;6934
| 6934 See above, ch. vii. p.
506. | from which circumstance the titles of the
Word and the Life were suitably transferred to Him. Others, again, that
He rather sprang from the twelve, the offspring of Man and
the Church,6935
| 6935 See above, ch. viii.
p. 507. | and therefore, they
say, He was designated “Son of man.” Others, moreover,
maintain that He was formed by Christ and the Holy
Spirit, who have to provide for the establishment of the
universe,6936
| 6936 See above, ch. xiv. p.
511. | and that He
inherits by right His Father’s appellation. Some there are who
have imagined that another origin must be found for the title
“Son of man;” for they have had the presumption to call the
Father Himself Man, by reason of the profound mystery of this
title: so that what can you hope for more ample concerning faith in
that God, with whom you are now yourself on a par? Such conceits are
constantly cropping out6937
amongst them, from
the redundance of their mother’s seed.6938
| 6938 Archamoth is referred
to. |
And so it happens that the doctrines which have grown up amongst the
Valentinians have already extended their rank growth to the woods of
the Gnostics.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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