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, _supra_, vol. I. p. 183 and n. 3.

Footnote 257:

Soul, perhaps, does not here mean anything more than animating principle, spark, or breath of life.

Footnote 258:

See p. 42, _supra_.

Footnote 259:

τοὺς τελείους ἀβασιλεύτοὐς γενέσθαι καὶ μετασχεῖν τοῦ πληρώματος, Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 8, p. 168, Cruice. See also the same expression in n. 3, p. 41, _supra_.

Footnote 260:

Origen’s testimony on this point can be the better relied on, because his good faith, unlike that of writers like Epiphanius, is above suspicion. He and Clement of Alexandria are the only two writers on Gnosticism among the Fathers to whom M. de Faye (_Introd._ p. 1) will allow “intelligence” and “impartialité.”

Footnote 261:

He gives, _op. cit._ p. 79, a map showing their chief seats from the head of the Persian Gulf on the one hand to Crete and the Adriatic on the other.

Footnote 262:

In the _Bruce Papyrus_ mentioned in