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Amélineau, “Notice sur le Papyrus gnostique Bruce,” Notices et Extraits des MSS. de la Bibl. Nat. etc. Paris, 1891, p. 106. This would seem to make matter the creation of God, but the author gets out of the dilemma by affirming (op. cit. p. 126) that “that which was not was the evil which is manifested in matter” and that while that which exists is called αἰώνιος, “everlasting,” that which does not exist is called ὕλη, “matter.”