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| Achamoth Purified from All Impurities of Her Passion by the Paraclete, Acting Through Soter, Who Out of the Above-Mentioned Impurities Arranges Matter, Separating Its Evil from the Better Qualities.
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XVI.—Achamoth Purified from All Impurities of Her Passion by the
Paraclete, Acting Through Soter, Who Out of the Above-Mentioned
Impurities Arranges Matter, Separating Its Evil from the Better
Qualities.
She, too, resorts to prayers, after the manner of
her mother. But Christ, Who now felt a dislike to quit the
Pleroma, appoints the Paraclete as his deputy. To her, therefore, he
despatches Soter,6790
| 6790 Saviour: another title
of their Paraclete. | (who must be the
same as Jesus, to whom the Father imparted the supreme power over the
whole body of the Æons, by subjecting them all to him, so that
“by him,” as the apostle says, “all things were
created”6791
), with a retinue
and cortege of contemporary angels, and (as one may suppose) with the
dozen fasces. Hereupon Achamoth, being quite struck with the pomp of
his approach, immediately covered herself with a veil, moved at first
with a dutiful feeling of veneration and modesty; but afterwards she
surveys him calmly, and his prolific equipage.6792
| 6792 Fructiferumque
suggestum. |
With such energies as she had derived from the contemplation, she meets
him with the salutation, Κύριε,
χαῖρε (“Hail,
Lord”)! Upon this, I suppose, he receives her, confirms and
conforms her in knowledge, as well as cleanses6793
her from all the outrages of Passion, without, however, utterly
severing them, with an indiscriminateness like that which had happened
in the casualties which befell her mother. For such vices as had become
inveterate and confirmed by practice he throws together; and when he
had consolidated them in one mass, he fixes them in a separate body, so
as to compose the corporeal condition of Matter, extracting out of her
inherent, incorporeal passion such an aptitude of nature6794
| 6794 Habilitatem atque
naturam. We have treated this as a “hendiadys.” | as might qualify it to attain to a
reciprocity of bodily substances,6795
| 6795 Æquiparantias
corpulentiarum. | which should
emulate one another, so that a twofold condition of the substances
might be arranged; one full of evil through its faults, the
other susceptible of passion from conversion. This will prove
to be Matter, which has set us in battle array against Hermogenes, and
all others who presume to teach that God made all things out of Matter,
not out of nothing.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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