Note 232 — BOOK VI SIMON MAGUS, VALENTINUS, AND THEIR FOLLOWERS

So that the “ineffable” name of Christ consisted of 30 letters. So Epiphanius, Haer., XXXIV, p. 448, Oehl. No guess hitherto made as to its transliteration into Greek letters seems entirely satisfactory; but Harvey (Iren., I, p. 146, nn. 1, 2), shows that χὶ, ρὼ, εἴψιλον (for which spelling Nigidius Figulus and Aulus Gellius are quoted), ἰῶτα, σῖγμα, ταῦ, οὐ (for ὀμικρόν), and, again, σῖγμα, can be made to count 30.