Enthymesis

[were supplied] to their Mother (whom they call the Enthymesis and impulse of the AEon that went astray) so great an amount of tears, or perspiration, or sadness, or that which produced the remainder of matter.

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

How then could the Enthymesis separately conceive passions, which themselves also were her affections?

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

This Enthymesis, again, when it exercises itself a long time on the same point, and has, as it were, been proved, is named Sensation.

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

By this affection sense is produced, and Ennoea, and Enthymesis, and other things which are simply synonyms for Nous himself.

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

For the first exercise of that [power] respecting anything, is styled Ennoea; but when it continues, and gathers strength, and takes possession of the whole soul, it is called Enthymesis.

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

For that AEon, whose type they declare Judas to be, after being separated from her Enthymesis, was restored or recalled

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For in the one case Judas was cast away, and Matthias was ordained instead of him; but in the other case the AEon is said to have been in danger of dissolution and destruction, and [there are also] her Enthymesis and passion: for they markedly distinguish Enthymesis from the passion; and they represent the AEon as being restored, and Enthymesis as acquiring form, but the passion, when separated from these, as becoming matter.

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Enthymesis, not as separated from the AEon, but of the passion entwined with her, neither in this way can the number twelve be regarded as a

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Enthymesis of that AEon who suffered passion, so that this AEon is the father of their mother, that is, their own grandfather.

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[3086] Although Sophia was a feminine AEon, she was regarded as being the father of Enthymesis, who again was the mother of the Valentinians.

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