This, therefore, was the knowledge of salvation; but [it did not consist in] another God, nor another Father, nor Bythus, nor the Pleroma of thirty Æons, nor the Mother of the (lower) Ogdoad: but the knowledge of salvation was the knowledge of the Son of God, who is both called and actually is, salvation, and Saviour, and salutary. Salvation, indeed, as follows: “I have waited for Thy salvation, O Lord.”3410
an accession of efficacy was granted to the waters and to the angel. They who8580
8580 Qui: i.e. probably “angeli qui.”
were wont to remedy bodily defects,8581
8581 Vitia.
now heal the spirit; they who used to work temporal salvation8582
8582 Or, “health”—salutem.
now reneweternal; they who did set free but once in the year, now save peoples in a body8583
8583 Conservant populos.
daily, death being done away through ablution of sins. The guilt being removed, of course the penalty is removed too. Thus man will be restored for God to His “likeness,” who in days bygone had been conformed to “the image” of God; (the “image” is counted (to be) in his form: the “likeness” in his eternity:) for he receives again that Spirit of God which he had then first received from His afflatus, but had afterward lost through sin.
