and inflating the minds of these men with the notion of their being able to conceive of something beyond God, and having fitly prepared them for the reception of deceit, he implants within them the Ogdoad of the foolish spirits of wickedness.
I do not here raise the question whether this appellation was suitable to one who ought not to be called Christ, unless he were sent by the Creator.3662
3662 Si non Creatoris.
Elsewhere3663
3663 See above, in book iii. chap. xii., on the name Emmanuel; in chap. xv., on the name Christ; and in chap. xvi., on the name Jesus.
there has been already given a full consideration of His titles.
