P. Derek Overfield PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

Adv Haer I, 12.3
There is great contention among them
about the Saviour as well. Some say
that he carne into being out of all, and
for that reason is called the Wellpleasing,
since it pleased the entire
Pleroma to praise the Father through him
( OL~ xat 'Euoox~~ov xa~£rcreaL, o~, ~v
~O ~A~p~a nuo6x~v 0,' a~~o5 OO~~L
~ov no.~~pa.).
Refutatio V, l2.f. (with reference to the Peratae)
And they say there carne down from on high,
from the unoriginate being, the first
division of the world, when the time was
otherwise complete, in the time of Herod
a three natured man called Christ, having
three bodies and three powers, possessing
in himself the complexities and powers
proceeding from the three parts of the
world.
And this, he says, is the meaning
of the saying "The whole fullness determined
to dwell in him in bodily form" and in him
is all the aodhead of the trinity divided
as aforesaid. ('1tO:v ~O 'it~~pWj..la
£~06XncrEY Xo.~OlX~ !v o.~~~ aw~a~,x~, xa.t
?to:cm. . !O"'tL V !v a.t~~ 1t e£6~, ••• )
Refutatio VIII, 13.1 (with reference to Monoimus)
New unity, the single stroke, he says,
is also the number ten7 for this power
of the single stroke, the latter Iota,
is also the number two and three and
four and five and six and seven and eight
and nine and so up to ten, for these, he
says, are the numbers, so many ways
divided, that reside in the simple,
incomposite, single stroke of the letter
Iota. This the meaning of the saying
"For the whole fullness was pleased to
reside in the Son of Man in bodily form"
( O~L ~v ~~ ~A~p~o. ~t&6x~£ Xo.~OLX~'
!~L ~ov urov ~O~ avep~ou ~w~~LX~' )
For, he says, these compositions of
numbers[ deriving] from the simple
incomplete stroke of Iota have become
bodily substance.
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