Note 199 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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πάνυ yὰp πικρῶς καὶ πεφυλαγμένως παραγγέλλουσιν ἀπέχεσθαι ὡς ἀποκεκομμένοι τῆς πρὸς γυναῖκα ὁμιλίας. “For they very strictly enjoin that their followers should abstain, as if they were castrated, from companying with women,” Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 9, p. 177, Cruice.