Note 51 — BOOK X SUMMARIES, AND THE WORD OF TRUTH
Francis Legge translation
The summarizer here uses for the first time in our text the expression “First Man,” which plays so large a part in later heresies such as Manichæism. For its early appearance in Western Asia and its influence see Bousset’s Hauptprobleme der Gnosis, c. 4, “Der Urmensch,” and Forerunners, I, p. lxi, and II, pp. 292, 293.