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xlvi THE KEY OF TRUTH
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It is possible that if we had in its entirety the chapter of the Key
1 On the Creation of Adam and of our Lord,' we should find that
it did teach this very ancient tenet ; for it is one which in no way
conflicts with the belief that Christ was KTio-pa 6eov and not 6e6s, and
which coheres closely with the teaching that Jesus Christ was the
new Adam. The survival of this tenet among the Anabaptists of
a later age (who seem to have been the Paulician Church trans-
ferred to Western Europe) also makes it very probable that
Paulicians may have held it. But here we are in the realm of
mere surmise, for we do not find the idea in so much as survives to
us of The Key of Truth. We recur to the point below (p. clxxxvii).
Another tenet ascribed to the Paulicians was this, that the Virgin
Mary was an allegory of the ' heavenly Jerusalem, into which Christ
has entered as our precursor and in our behalf 1 .' Such teaching
was not heretical ; and that the Paulicians did not substitute this
allegory for the actual belief that Jesus was born of the Virgin is
1 Scor. vii : t^c dvw 'l(pov