Note 225 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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Clem. Alex. Strom. Bk III. c. 13, and n. 2, p. 196, Chapter VI, vol. I. The οὔτε ἄρρεν οὔτε θῆλυ of this passage and of Clement’s Second Epistle to the Romans (Hilgenfeld, N.T. extra canon. pt I., p. 79) is compared by the Naassene author (Hipp. op. cit. Bk V. c. 7, p. 146, Cruice) with the emasculation of Attis, which is made a type of the soul “passing from the material parts of the lower creation to the eternal substance above.”