Note 165 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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εἰδικὸς κόσμος, Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 7, p. 153, Cruice. By the expression Demiurge he means that he fashioned it from pre-existent matter, as a workman builds a house.