Note 201 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES

ἐκ τῶν σωμάτων τῶν χοϊκῶν ἀναγεννηθέντες πνευματικοὶ οὐ σαρκικοί “being born again from the earthly body, not as fleshly but as spiritual men”.... Οἱ δὲ αὐτοί, φησί, Φρύγες τὸν αὐτὸν πάλιν ἐκ μεταβολῆς λέγουσι θεόν. “Fοr the Phrygians themselves declare, he says, that he who is thus reborn is by reason of the change a god,” Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 8, pp. 165, 166, Cruice. Cf. Berger, Études, etc. p. 27.