Note 263 — BOOK VI SIMON MAGUS, VALENTINUS, AND THEIR FOLLOWERS
Francis Legge translation
κατ’ οἰκονομίαν. This seems here the meaning of the word. See Döllinger, First Age of Christianity, Eng. ed., p. 170, n. 2, Hatch; Influence of Greek Ideas upon the Christian Church, p. 131; Tollinton, Clement of Alexandria, II, p. 13, and n. 1, for other meanings.