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HERACLEON , a Gnostic who flourished about A.D. 125, probably in the See also:

south of See also:

Italy or in See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, and is generally classed by the See also:

early heresiologists with the Valentinian school of See also:

HERESY

heresy. In his See also:

SYSTEM

system he appears to have regarded the divine nature as a vast See also:

ABYSS (Gr. as, privative, ,6u6QOs, bottom)

abyss in whose pleroma were aeons of different orders and degrees,—emanations from the source of being. Midway between the supreme See also:

God and the material See also:

WORLD

world was the Demiurgus, who created the latter, and under whose See also:

jurisdiction the See also:

LOWER

lower, See also:

animal soul of See also:

man proceeded after See also:

DEATH

death, while his higher, See also:

CELESTIAL, OR STELLAR

celestial soul returned to the pleroma whence at first it issued. Though conspicuously uniting faith in See also:

Christ with spiritual maturity, there are evidences that, like other Valentinians, Heracleon did not sufficiently emphasize See also:

ABSTINENCE (from Lat. abstinere, to abstain)

abstinence from the moral laxity and worldliness into which his followers See also:

fell. He seems to have received the See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary See also:

Christian scriptures; and See also:

ORIGEN (c. 185-c. 254)

Origen, who treats him as a notable exegete, has preserved fragments of a commentary by him on the See also:

FOURTH

fourth See also:

GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

gospel (brought together by See also:

GRABE, JOHN ERNEST (1666-1711)

Grabe in the second See also:

VOLUME

volume of his Spicilegium), while See also:

Clement of See also:

Alexandria quotes from him what appears to be a passage from a commentary on See also:

Luke. These writings are remarkable for their intensely mystical and allegorical interpretations of the See also:

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text.

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