{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030549.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030549.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030549.htm","text":"Chapter XXXIV.\u2014Other Varying Opinions Among the Valentinians Respecting the Deity, Characteristic Raillery.\nOthers 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 \u201cthis deity\u201d in the neuter gender rather than \u201cthis god.\u201d 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.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part II: Other ...","type":"page"}