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Contre les Valentiniens

XXXVIII.

Secondus fut un peu plus humain, en étant plus court; il partage l'Ogdoade en deux Tétrades, la droite et la gauche, la lumière et les ténèbres: seulement il ne veut pas que la vertu incomplète et avortée sorte de quelqu'un des trente Eons, mais des fruits qui proviennent de leur substance.

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Against the Valentinians

Chapter XXXVIII.--Diversity in the Opinions of Secundus, as Compared with the General Doctrine of Valentinus.

Secundus is a trifle more human, as he is briefer: he divides the Ogdoad into a pair of Tetrads, a right hand one and a left hand one, one light and the other darkness. Only he is unwilling to derive the power which apostatized and fell away ¹ from any one of the Aeons, but from the fruits which issued from their substance.