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Against the Valentinians

Tertullian

Chapter 34

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Author: Tertullian

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

Others of purer mind, mindful of the honour of the

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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

.