or [Greek: pente]), [Greek: ex andras esches].

[457] Celsus having objected that believers had again and again
falsified the text of the Gospel, refashioning it, in order to meet the
objections of assailants, Origen replies: [Greek: Metacharaxantas de to
euangelion allous ouk oida, he tous apo Markionos, kai tous apo
Oualentinou, oimai de kai tous apo Loukanou. touto de legomenon ou tou
logou estin egklema, alla ton tolmesanton rhadiourgesai ta euangelia].
Opp. i. 411 B.

[458] De Praesc. Haer. c. 51.

[459] [Greek: Outos de demiourgos kai poietes toude tou pantos kosmou
kai ton en auto ... estai men katadeesteros tou teleiou Theou ... ate de
kai gennetos on, kai ouk agennetos]. Ptolemaeus, ap. Epiph. p. 217.
Heracleon saw in the nobleman of Capernaum an image of the Demiurge who,
[Greek: basilikos onomasthe hoionei mikros tis basileus, hypo katholikou
basileos tetagmenos epi mikras basileias], p. 373.

[460] [Greek: O Ioannes ... boulomenos eipein ten ton holon genesin,
kath' en ta panta proebalen ho Pater, archen tina hypotithetai, to
proton gennethen hypo tou theou, hon de kai huion Monogene kai Theon
kekleken, en ho ta panta ho Pater proebale spermatikos. Hypo de toutou
phesi ton Logon probeblesthai, kai en auto ten holen ton Aionon ousian,
en autos hysteron emorphosen ho Logos.... Panta di' autou egeneto, kai
choris autou egeneto oude hen; pasi gar tois met' auton Aiosi morphes
kai geneseos aitios ho Logos egeneto].

[461] [Greek: En to Patri kai ek tou Patros he arche, kai ek tes arches
ho Logos. Kalos oun eipen; en arche en ho Logos; en gar en to Huio. Kai
ho Logos en pros ton Theon; kai gar he 'Arche; kai Theos en ho Logos,
akolouthos. To gar ek Theou gennethen Theos estin].--Ibid. p. 102.
Compare the Excerpt. Theod. _ap_. Clem. Al. c. vi. p. 968.

[462] _Ap_. Orig. 938. 9.

[463] So Theodotus (p. 980), and so Ptolemaeus (_ap._ Epiph. i. 217),
and so Heracleon (_ap._ Orig. p. 954). Also Meletius the Semi-Arian
(_ap._ Epiph. i. 882).

[464] See The Traditional Text, p. 113.

[465] Clem. Al. always has [Greek: oude hen] (viz. pp. 134, 156, 273,
769, 787, 803, 812, 815, 820): but when he quotes the Gnostics (p. 838)
he has [Greek: ouden]. Cyril, while writing his treatise De Trinitate,
read [Greek: ouden] in his copy. Eusebius, for example, has [Greek: oude
hen], fifteen times; [Greek: ouden] only twice, viz. Praep. 322: Esai.
529.

[466] Opp. ii. 74.

[467] _Ap._ Iren. 102.

[468] Ibid. 940.

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