Note 253 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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The sphere of Mars? No allusion is made elsewhere to the φραγμὸν πυρὸς “fence of fire”; but we do of course often hear of an empyrean or heaven of fire stretching over the earth. The ζωῆς ξύλον is, according to both Origen and Celsus, the Cross; Origen, op. cit. Bk VI. cc. 34, 37.