The Open court . m of an ass,others that of a swine. For a Gnostic sect there is nothing sur-prising in the fact that these lords of the spheres were regarded ashostile powers, nor even that this contrast was sometimes verystrongly emphasised; Epiphanius refers to this, p. 93 D : Theyblaspheme not only Abraham, Moses, and Elias and the whole bandof the prophets, but even the god who chose themselves. Evi-dently the blasphemy against the god of the Jews consists in theaccount of his having an asss head, and this account may havebeen meant seriously by the sect, in which case it simply worshipst
The Open court . m of an ass,others that of a swine. For a Gnostic sect there is nothing sur-prising in the fact that these lords of the spheres were regarded ashostile powers, nor even that this contrast was sometimes verystrongly emphasised; Epiphanius refers to this, p. 93 D : Theyblaspheme not only Abraham, Moses, and Elias and the whole bandof the prophets, but even the god who chose themselves. Evi-dently the blasphemy against the god of the Jews consists in theaccount of his having an asss head, and this account may havebeen meant seriously by the sect, in which case it simply worshipsthe god in this form—or not, and in the latter case it is intendedto ridicule some other sect which is friendly to the Jews, and whichhas given some ground for this ridicule. In view of the treatmentof the Jewish rulers of the planets as hostile spirits the former as- 92 THE OPEN COURT. sumption is improbable, and therefore the probability is for thelatter. Now we have already seen that the Sethians were friends. /V
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