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Chapter
XLVI.—Marcus’ Account of the Birth and Life of Our
Lord.
But concerning the creation of this (Jesus), he
expresses himself thus: That powers emanating from the second
tetrad fashioned Jesus, who appeared on earth, and that the angel
Gabriel775
filled the place
of the Logos, and the Holy Spirit that of Zoe, and the “Power of
the Highest”776
| 776 Or,
“of the Son,” an obvious mistake. | that of
Anthropos, and the Virgin that of Ecclesia.777
| 777
Irenæus has, “And the Virgin exhibited the place of
Ecclesia.” | And so it was, in Marcus’
system, that the man (who appeared) in accordance with the dispensation
was born through Mary.778
| 778
Irenæus adds, “whom the Father of the universe selected, for
passage through the womb, by means of the Logos, for recognition of
Himself.” | And when He came to the water,
(he says) that He descended like a dove upon him who had ascended above
and filled the twelfth number. And in Him resides the seed of
these, that is, such as are sown along with Him, and that descend with
(Him), and ascend with (Him). And that this power which descended
upon Him, he says, is the seed of the Pleroma, which contains in itself
both the Father and the Son, and the unnameable power of Sige, which is
recognised through these and all the Æons. And that this
(seed) is the spirit which is in Him and spoke in Him through the mouth
of the Son, the confession of Himself as Son of man, and of His being
one who would manifest the Father; (and that) when this spirit came
down upon Jesus, He was united with Him. The Saviour, who was of
the dispensation, he says, destroyed death, whereas He made known (as)
the Father Christ (Jesus). He says that Jesus, therefore, is the
name of the man of the dispensation, and that it has been set forth for
the assimilation and formation of Anthropos, who was about to descend
upon Him; and that when He had received Him unto Himself, He retained
possession of Him. And (he says) that He was Anthropos, (that) He
(was) Logos, (that) He (was) Pater, and Arrhetus, and Sige, and
Aletheia, and Ecclesia, and Zoe.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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