Note 238 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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Origen, cont. Cels. Bk VI. c. 32. Horaios is probably connected with the root אור “light”; Astaphaios appears in the earliest texts as Astanpheus. which may be an anagram for στέφανος “crown.” Or it may be חשטפה “inundation” which would agree with Origen’s statement as to this being the principle of water, for which see p. 73 infra.