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

99Refutatio VI, 29.7; Eug 86f.
100According to Refutatio VI, 29f the original pair
are not included in the total 30; the number being
made up by the addition of two extra aeons, Christ
and Holy Spirit.
lOlThe number 30 is accounted for in at least two
Oifferent ways by the Valentinians: either the number
of the 'hidden' years of Jesus between his birth and
the beginning of his public preaching, or, by the sum
total of the hours of the workers in the vineyards
(1+3+6+9+11). In both instances the figure is
associated with that which was not generally known;
cf Adv Haer 1,1.3.
10lAdv Haer 1,2.1
l04Adv Haer 1,2.2; Refutatio VI,31.1.
105But see n.99 above.
106Adv Haer I,2.5f. According to Refutatio VI, 31.5
another aeon, the Cross, was produced in order that
the deficiency that had taken place in the Pleroma
ndght not be imparted to the remaining aeons. The
Cross also. served to separate that which was outside
the Pleroma from the Pleroma and was believed to
contain in itself the thirty aeons at one and the same
time.
107Adv Haer 1,2.6.
Ope cit.,. I, p.130.
Translation from Foerster,
Cf also Refutatio VI, 32.3.
108Die Kirche, p.89.
109 11 Antilegomena" , p.254.
110Cf 0 M' h 1" ".
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