Anf-01 ix.ii.ix Pg 25
1 Cor. ii. 6.
They declare also that Paul has referred to the conjunctions within the Pleroma, showing them forth by means of one; for, when writing of the conjugal union in this life, he expressed himself thus: “This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.”2771 2771
Anf-01 ix.iv.iii Pg 2
1 Cor. ii. 6.
And this wisdom each one of them alleges to be the fiction of his own inventing, forsooth; so that, according to their idea, the truth properly resides at one time in Valentinus, at another in Marcion, at another in Cerinthus, then afterwards in Basilides, or has even been indifferently in any other opponent,3312 3312 This is Harvey’s rendering of the old Latin, in illo qui contra disputat.
who could speak nothing pertaining to salvation. For every one of these men, being altogether of a perverse disposition, depraving the system of truth, is not ashamed to preach himself.