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loved the body, this man remaineth wandering in darkness, 

 sensibly (a) suffering things of death." 



20. " Why do the ignorant (5) sin so greatly ?" said I, 

 " that they should be deprived of immortality ? " " Thou 

 seemest," he saith, " O thou (c) ! not to have apprehended 

 the things thou hast heard; did not I tell thee to un- 

 derstand ?" "I understand," I said, " and remember, and 

 at the same time I thank thee." " If thou hast under- 

 stood/' he saith, " tell me why are those being in death 

 worthy of death ?" " Because," I say, " before the peculiar 

 body cometh x the fearful darkness (d), out of which the 

 moist nature out of which the body is constituted (e) in 

 the sensible world, whence death is derived." (/) 



21. " Thou hast understood rightly, Thou ! But after 

 what mode does he who hath understood himself (g) 

 proceed to God, which the Word of God said ? I say 

 that c from Light and Life is constituted the Father of the | 

 Universals (h), from whom the Man was generated.' " Say I 

 well speaking," He saith ; " for Light and Life are The 

 God and the Father from Whom the Man was generate. 2 

 If, then, thou hast learnt thyself to be from light and 

 life, 3 and that thou existest (i) of these, thou shalt pass 



(a) ttlvQ-frra;. (6) d'/voovrres. (c) u wrog. (d) arv/vov. 



(e) avvsffrriKSv. (/) dpltvzrou, literally, " is watered." 



(g) 6 Ivvoqaots foLvroi/. (h) ruv 'ohuv. (i) Tvyx<ivt$. 



1 " Darkness was upon the face of the deep " (Gen. i. 2.) 



2 The God that made the world and all things therein. He being 

 Lord of Heaven and earth dwelleth not, &c. . . . seeing He Him- 

 self giveth to all life and breath and all things ; and He made of one 

 every nation of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth," &c., 

 ., . . " that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after 



Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us : for in 

 Him we live and move and have our being, as certain even of your 

 own poets have said : For we are also His offspring " (Acts xvii. 

 24, 28). 



3 " Ami The God said, I*efc-s=inake man after our own image, 

 after our likeness" (Gen. i. 26). "So The God created (l^o/yjo-j-y, 

 Septuagint) the man in His own image (after the image of God 

 Sept.), male and female created He them" (eKorwet/ ecvrovg, ibid. 

 28). 



