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Heracleon’s View that the Lord Brought Life Only to the
Spiritual. Refutation of This.
Heracleon adopts a somewhat violent course when he
arrives at this passage, “What was made in Him was
life.” Instead of the “In Him” of the text he
understands “to those men who are spiritual,” as if he
considered the Logos and the spiritual to be identical, though this he
does not plainly say; and then he proceeds to give, as it were, an
account of the origin of the matter and says, “He (the Logos)
provided them with their first form at their birth, carrying further
and making manifest what had been sown by another,4713
into form and into illumination and into an
outline of its own.” He did not observe how Paul speaks of
the spiritual,4714
and how he refrains
from saying that they are men. “A natural man receiveth not
the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; but
the spiritual judgeth all things.” We maintain that it was
not without a meaning that he did not add the word men to the
word spiritual. Spiritual is something better than man,
for man receives his form either in soul, or in body, or in both
together, not in what is more divine than these, namely, in spirit; and
it is after he has come to have a prevailing share of this that he is
called “spiritual.” Moreover, in bringing forward
such a hypothesis as this, he furnishes not even the pretence of a
proof, and shows himself unable to reach even a moderate degree of
plausibility for his argument on the subject. So much, then, for
him.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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