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Against the Valentinians

Chapter XXXIV.--Other Varying Opinions Among the Valentinians Respecting the Deity, Characteristic Raillery.

Others of purer mind, mindful of the honour of the Deity, have, for the purpose of freeing him from the discredit of even single wedlock, preferred assigning no sex whatever to Bythus; and therefore very likely they talk of "this deity" in the neuter gender rather than "this god." Others again, on the other hand, speak of him as both masculine and feminine, so that the worthy chronicler Fenestella must not suppose that an hermaphrodite was only to be found among the good people of Luna.

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Adversus Valentinianos

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[1] pudiciores alii honorem divinitatis recordati ut etiam unius coniugis dedecus ab eo avellerent maluerunt nullum Bytho sexum deputare et fortasse hoc dominum non hic deus neutro genere pronuntiant. [2] alii contra magis et masculum et feminam dicunt ne apud solos Lunenses Hermaphroditum existimet annalium commentator Fenestella.