Traduction
Masquer
The Refutation of All Heresies
Chapter XLII.--His System Applied to Explain Our Lord's Life and Death.
And he says, as the result of this computation and that proportion, 1 that in the similitude of an image He appeared who after the six days Himself ascended the mountain a fourth person, and became the sixth. 2 And (he asserts) that He (likewise) descended and was detained by the Hebdomad, and thus became an illustrious Ogdoad. And He contains in Himself of the elements the entire number which He manifested, as He came to His baptism. (And the symbol of manifestation was) the descent of the dove, which is O[mega] and Alpha, and which by the number manifested (by these is) 801. 3 And for this reason (he maintains) that Moses says that man was created on the sixth day. And (he asserts) that the dispensation of suffering (took place) on the sixth day, which is the preparation; (and so it was) that on this (day) appeared the last man for the regeneration of the first man. And that the beginning and end of this dispensation is the sixth hour, at which He was nailed to the (accursed) tree. For (he says) that perfect Nous, knowing the sixfold number to be possessed of the power of production and regeneration, manifested to the sons of light the regeneration that had been introduced into this number by that illustrious one who had appeared. Whence also he says that the double letters 4 involve the remarkable number. For the illustrious number, being intermingled with the twenty-four elements, produced the name (consisting) of the thirty letters.
200 t = 300 e = 5 r = 100 a = 1 ___ 801 This, therefore, is equipollent with Alpha and Omega, as a is equal to 1, and o to 800. [Stuff! Bunsen, very naturally, exclaims.]
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Or, "economy." ↩
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Christ went up with the three apostles, and was therefore the fourth Himself; by the presence of Moses and Elias, He became the sixth: Matt. xvii. 1; Mark ix. 2. ↩
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The Greek word for dove is peristera, the letters of which represent 801, as may be seen thus:-- p = 80 e = 5 r = 100 i = 10 s = ↩
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grammata: some read pragmata. ↩
Traduction
Masquer
Widerlegung aller Häresien (BKV)
47.
Als Frucht dieser Berechnung und Ordnung erscheint, so sagt er, in Bild und Gleichnis1 jener, der nach sechs Tagen als Vierter auf den Berg gestiegen S. 185 und der Sechste geworden sei2, der herabgestiegen und in der Siebenzahl festgehalten wurde, der eine ausgezeichnete Achtheit war und in sich die gesamte Zahl der Elemente hatte; ihn zeigte, da er zur Taufe ging, die Taube3, das Alpha und das Omega, bei ihrer Herabkunft durch ihre Zahl 801 an; deswegen sagt Moses, der Mensch sei am sechsten Tage4 erschaffen. Und gemäß des Leidensplanes ist an dem sechsten Tag, der Parasceve ist, der letzte Mensch zur Wiedergeburt des ersten5 erschienen. Dieses Planes Anfang und Ende liegt in der sechsten Stunde6, in welcher er ans Kreuz geheftet wurde. Denn der vollkommene Nus, der begriff, daß die Sechszahl die Kraft der Schöpfung und der Wiedergeburt habe, hat den Kindern des Lichtes7 die durch ihn gemäß der erhabenen Zahl zu erfolgende Wiedergeburt geoffenbart. Deswegen hat die erhabene Zahl auch die Doppelbuchstaben in sich; zu den vierundzwanzig Elementen gezählt, macht sie den dreißigbuchstabigen Namen aus.
