Note 207 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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Cum accepisset concupiscentiam superioris luminis, et virtutem sumpsisset per omnia, deposuisse corpus et liberatam ab eo. Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 28, p. 229, Harvey. As he goes on to say: Corpus autem hoc exuisse dicunt eam, foeminam a foemina nominant, it is plain that he is here referring to the Third or Lower Sophia who was one of the personages in the Valentinian drama and unknown, so far as we can tell, to the Ophites. The Latin translator is no doubt responsible for this confusion.