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Theodotus

Section 57

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Author: Theodotus

LVII. There are then, according to the apostle, those

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on

the

summit

,

the

first

-

created

.

And

they

are

thrones

,

although

Powers

,

being

the

first

-

created

,

inasmuch

as

God

rests

in

them

,

as

also

in

those

who

believe

.

For

each

one

,

according

to

his

own

stage

of

advancement

possesses

the

knowledge

of

God

in

a

way

special

to

himself

;

and

in

this

knowledge

God

reposes

,

those

who

possess

knowledge

being

made

immortal

by

knowledge

.

And

is

not

“

He

set

His

tabernacle

in

the

sun

”

to

be

understood

thus

?

God

“

set

in

the

sun

,

”

that

is

,

in

the

God

who

is

beside

Him

,

as

in

the

Gospel

,

Eli

,

Eli

,

instead

of

my

God

,

my

God

.

And

what

is

“

above

all

rule

,

and

authority

,

and

power

,

and

every

name

that

is

named

,

”

are

those

from

among

men

that

are

made

perfect

as

angels

and

archangels

,

so

as

to

rise

to

the

nature

of

the

angels

first

-

created

.

For

those

who

are

changed

from

men

to

angels

are

instructed

for

a

thousand

years

by

the

angels

after

they

are

brought

to

perfection

.

Then

those

who

have

taught

are

translated

to

archangelic

authority

;

and

those

who

have

learned

instruct

those

again

who

from

men

are

changed

to

angels

.

Thus

afterwards

,

in

the

prescribed

periods

,

they

are

brought

to

the

proper

angelic

state

of

the

body

.

Notes

89
᾽Εν τῇ ἀκρῇ ἀποκαταστάσει. The last word yields no suitable sense, and conjecture as to the right reading is vain; and we have left it untranslated. The Latin translator renders “qui in summa arce collocati sunt.”
90
῞Ηλιος is (with marvellous ignorance of the Hebrew tongue, as Combefisius notices) here identified with Eli, ילִא”