{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030528.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030528.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030528.htm","text":"Chapter XIII.\u2014First Part of the Subject, Touching the Constitution of the Pleroma, Briefly Recapitulated. Transition to the Other Part, Which is Like a Play Outside the Curtain.\nIn this series, then, is contained the first emanation of \u00c6ons, who are alike born, and are married, and produce offspring: there are the most dangerous fortunes of Sophia in her ardent longing for the Father, the most seasonable help of Horos, the expiation of her p. 511 Enthymesis and accruing Passion, the instruction of Christ and the Holy Spirit, their tutelar reform of the \u00c6ons, the piebald ornamentation of Soter, the consubstantial retinue 6763 of the angels. All that remains, according to you, is the fall of the curtain and the clapping of hands. 6764 What remains in my opinion, however, is, that you should hear and take heed. At all events, these things are said to have been played out within the company of the Pleroma, the first scene of the tragedy. The rest of the play, however, is beyond the curtain\u2014I mean outside of the Pleroma. And yet if it be such within the bosom of the Father, within the embrace of the guardian Horos, what must it be outside, in free space, 6765 where God did not exist?\nComparaticium antistatum. The latter word Oehler explains, \u201cante ipsum stantes;\u201d the former, \u201cquia genus eorum comparari poterat substanti\u00e6 Soteris\u201d (so Rigaltus).\n511:6764\nThe reader will see how obviously this is meant in Tertullian\u2019s \u201cQuod superest, inquis, vos valete et plaudite.\u201d This is the well-known allusion to the end of the play in the old Roman theatre. See Quintilian, vi. 1, 52; comp. Horace, A. P. 155. Tertullian\u2019s own parody to this formula, immediately after, is: \u201cImmo quod superest, inquam, vos audite et proficite.\n511:6765\nIn libero: which may be, however, \u201cbeyond the control of Horos.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part II: First ...","type":"page"}