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Chapter
XL.—The Name of Christ Jesus.
But, after uttering these words, (Marcus details) that
Truth, gazing upon him, and opening her mouth, spoke the discourse
(just-alluded to). And (he tells us) that the discourse became a
name, and that the name was that which we know and utter, viz., Christ
Jesus, and that as soon as she had named this (name) she remained
silent. While Marcus, however, was expecting that she was about
to say more, the Quaternion,
again advancing into the midst, speaks as follows: “Thou
didst regard as contemptible743
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reading is doubtful. The translator adopts Scott’s
emendation. |
this discourse which you have heard from the mouth of Truth. And
yet this which you know and seem long since to possess is not the name;
for you have merely the sound of it, but are ignorant of the
power. For Jesus is a remarkable name, having six
letters,744
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[See note 1, p. 94 supra, on “Amen.”
Comp. Irenæus, vol. i. p. 393, this series. This name of
Jesus does, indeed, run through all Scripture, in verbal and other
forms; Gen. xlix.
18 and in
Joshua, as a foreshadowing.] | invoked745
by all belonging to the called (of
Christ); whereas the other (name, that is, Christ,) consists of many
parts, and is among the (five) Æons of the Pleroma. (This
name) is of another form and a different type, and is recognised by
those existences who are connate with him, and whose magnitudes subsist
with him continually.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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