Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.ii Pg 3.1
Npnf-201 iii.vii.xxiv Pg 24
Anf-01 ix.ii.ii Pg 8
Matt. xx. 1–16.
of the labourers sent into the vineyard. For some are sent about the first hour, others about the third hour, others about the sixth hour, others about the ninth hour, and others about the eleventh hour. Now, if we add up the numbers of the hours here mentioned, the sum total will be thirty: for one, three, six, nine, and eleven, when added together, form thirty. And by the hours, they hold that the Æons were pointed out; while they maintain that these are great, and wonderful, and hitherto unspeakable mysteries which it is their special function to develop; and so they proceed when they find anything in the multitude2669 2669 Some omit ἐν πλήθει, while others render the words “a definite number,” thus: “And if there is anything else in Scripture which is referred to by a definite number.”
of things contained in the Scriptures which they can adopt and accommodate to their baseless speculations.