AEons

For, in the one case, each of the AEons is a thirtieth part of the entire Pleroma, while in the other they declare that a month is the twelfth part of a year.

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For which reason the Father, knowing the incomprehensibleness of His own nature, assigned to the elements which He also terms AEons, [the power] of each one uttering its own enunciation, because no one of them was capable by itself of uttering the whole.

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Those names of the elements which may be told, and are common, he has called AEons, and words, and roots, and seeds, and fulnesses, and fruits.

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Greek, "AEons," a word used by the Gnostics for angelic beings emanating from God.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

[3409] 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 AEons, nor the

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For all [the AEons] are formed of the same substance with the Father, differing from one another only in size, and not in nature, and filling up the greatness of the Father, even as the fingers complete the hand.

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For He who made choice of the apostles, that they might be a type of those AEons existing in the Pleroma, would never have constituted them types of some and not of others; but by means of the apostles He would have tried to preserve an image and to exhibit a type of those AEons that exist in the Pleroma.

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Moreover, he maintains that power which descended was the seed of the Father, which had in itself both the Father and the Son, as well as that power of Sige which is known by means of them, but cannot be expressed in language, and also all the AEons.

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[2721] Both the Father and the other AEons constituting Soter an impersonation of the entire Pleroma.

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These AEons having been produced for the glory of the Father, and wishing, by their own efforts, to effect this object, sent forth emanations by means of conjunction.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001