Note 49 — Chapter VII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS

E.g. Irenaeus, op. cit. Bk I. c. 1, I. p. 9, Harvey. Here he is called ὅμοιος τε καὶ ἴσος τῷ προβαλόντι, “like and equal to him who had sent him forth.” There is certainly here no allusion to “begetting” in the ordinary sense of the word.