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Chapter
XXIII.—Two Kinds of Prophecy.
“Let us then understand that there are two
kinds of prophecy:968
| 968 Literally,
“Let there be to us two genuine prophecies.” | the one
male; and let it be defined that the first, being the male, has been
ranked after the other in the order of advent; but the second, being
female, has been appointed to come first in the advent of the
pairs. This second, therefore, being amongst those born of woman,
as the female superintendent of this present world, wishes to be
thought masculine.969
| 969 [The doctrine of
these chapters is tinged with Gnostic dualism; much of the matter
might, according to tradition, have been equally well put in the mouth
of Simon.—R.] | Wherefore,
stealing the seeds of the male, and sowing them with her own seeds of
the flesh, she brings forth the fruits—that is, words—as
wholly her own. And she promises that she will give the present
earthly riches as a dowry, wishing to change the slow for the swift,
the small for the greater.
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