[Footnote 25: So Miller, Cruice, and Schneidewin. I should be inclined to read φάος, “light,” as in the Naassene hymn at the end of this chapter. No Gnostic sect can have taught that the soul came from Chaos.]
[Footnote 26: This, as always at this period, means “Syrians.” See Maury, _Rev. Archéol._, lviii, p. 242.]
[Footnote 27: ἔμψυχοι. He is punning on the likeness between this and ψυχή, “soul.”]
[Footnote 28: And between “nourished” and “reared.”]
[Footnote 29: τὸ τοιοῦτον. Not φύσις or ψυχή. At this point the author begins his commentary on the Hymn of the Mysteries of Cybele, for which see p. 141 _infra_.]
[Footnote 31: An allusion to the myth which makes Aphrodite and Persephone share the company of Adonis between them.]
[Footnote 32: These words are added in the margin.]
[Footnote 33: A prominent feature in the imposture of Alexander of Abonoteichus. See Lucian’s _Pseudomantis_, _passim_.]
[Footnote 34: In the better-known story Attis castrates himself; but this version explains the allusion in the hymn on p. 141 _infra_.]
[Footnote 35: _i. e._ restores to her the virility of which they had deprived her when she was hermaphrodite. See n. on p. 119 _supra_.]
[Footnote 36: λελεγμένη. Miller and Schneidewin read δεδαιγμένη, “open,” or “displayed.”]
[Footnote 37: Gal. iii. 28. So Clemens Romanus, _Ep._ ii. 12; Clem. Alex. _Strom._, III, 13. Cf. _Pistis Sophia_, p. 378 (Copt).]
[Footnote 38: 2 Cor. v. 17; Gal. vi. 15.]
[Footnote 39: _i. e._ masculo-feminine. That Rhea, Cybele and Gê are but different names of the earth-goddess, see Maury, _Rèl. de la Grèce Antique_, I, 78 ff. For their androgyne character, see _J.R.A.S._ for Oct. 1917.]
[Footnote 40: Rom. i. 20 ff. The text omits several sentences to be found in the A.V.]
[Footnote 43: ἐπαγγελία τοῦ λουτροῦ, _pollicetur iis qui lavantur_, Cr. But “the font” is the regular patristic expression for the rite.]
[Footnote 44: The text has ἄλλῳ, “other,” which makes no sense. Cruice, following Schneidewin, alters it to ἀλάλῳ on the strength of p. 144 _infra_, and renders it _ineffabilis_; but ἀλάλος cannot mean anything but “dumb” or “silent.” That baptism in the early heretical sects was followed by a “chrism” or anointing, see _Forerunners_, II, 129, n. 2; _ibid._, 192.]