enthymesis

[2714] The Valentinian Stauros was the boundary fence of the Pleroma beyond which Christ extended himself to assist the enthymesis of

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The woman, again, who sweeps the house and finds the piece of money, they declare to denote the Sophia above, who, having lost her enthymesis, afterwards recovered it, on all things being purified by the advent of the Saviour.

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[2696] For He, being everything, opened the womb [2697] of the enthymesis of the suffering

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They declare, then, that by breathing into man the spirit of life, he was secretly emptied of his power; that hence man became a possessor of nous (intelligence) and enthymesis

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For her enthymesis (or inborn idea) having been taken away from her, along with its supervening passion, she herself certainly remained within the

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Pleroma; but her enthymesis, with its passion, was separated from her by Horos, fenced [2675] off, and expelled from that circle.

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This enthymesis was, no doubt, a spiritual substance, possessing some of the natural tendencies of an AEon, but at the same time shapeless and without form, because it had received nothing.

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AEon, gave to her enthymesis substance alone, without form.

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But Ialdabaoth, feeling envious at this, was pleased to form the design of again emptying man by means of woman, and produced a woman from his own enthymesis, whom that Prunicus [above mentioned] laying hold of, imperceptibly emptied her of power.

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Mother, the enthymesis of the AEon, who existed in suffering and apostasy; nor the Pleroma of the thirty AEons, which has been proved vain, and incapable of being believed in; nor that fable invented by the other heretics.

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