Note 641 — Chapter X · THE SYSTEM OF THE PISTIS SOPHIA AND ITS RELATED TEXTS[459]
Reading edition
The Marcosian authorship of the whole MS. is asserted by Bunsen, Hippolytus and his Age, vol. I. p. 47. Köstlin, Über das gnostische System des Buch Pistis Sophia in the Theologische Jahrbücher of Baur and Zeller, Tübingen, 1854, will have none of it, and declares the Pistis Sophia to be an Ophite work. In this, the first commentator on the book is followed by Grüber, Der Ophiten, Würzburg, 1864, p. 5, §§ 3, 4.