Note 187 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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Cf. the vestures of light belonging to Jesus in the Pistis Sophia, Chapter X, infra. So Philo, Quaest. et Sol. in Gen. c. 53, explains that the coats of skin made by God for Adam and Eve are a “figure of speech” for a material body. Origen, in like manner (cont. Cels. Bk IV. c. 40), says that the clothing of the protoplasts in tunics of skin covers “a certain secret and mystic doctrine far exceeding Plato’s of the soul losing its wings and being borne to earth.”