Note 250 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES

This may be the sphere of Jupiter, who in one of the later documents of the Pistis Sophia is made ruler of the five planets. Sabaoth is probably the Divine Name צבאות “[Lord of] Hosts” which the Greeks took for a proper name. It, like Iao, appears often in the later documents. The πεντὰς δυνατωτέρα “mightier Pentad” may refer to the Three Men (Adamas, his son, and Christos), and the Two Women (the First Woman and Sophia) placed at the head of the universe by the Ophites.