{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030552.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030552.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030552.htm","text":"Chapter XXXVII.\u2014Other Turgid and Ridiculous Theories About the Origin of the \u00c6ons and Creation, Stated and Condemned.\nNow listen to some other buffooneries 6924 of a master who is a great swell among them, 6925 and who has pronounced his dicta with an even priestly authority. They run thus: There comes, says he, before all things Pro-arche, the inconceivable, and indescribable, and nameless, which I for my own part call Monotes (Solitude). With this was associated another power, to which also I give the name of Henotes (Unity). Now, inasmuch as Monotes and Henotes\u2014that is to say, Solitude and Union\u2014were only one being, they produced, and yet not in the way of production, 6926 the intellectual, innascible, invisible beginning of all things, which human language 6927 has called Monad (Solitude). 6928 This has inherent in itself a consubstantial force, which it calls Unity 6929 These powers, accordingly, Solitude or Solitariness, and Unity, or Union, propagated all the other emanations of \u00c6ons. 6930 Wonderful distinction, to be sure! Whatever change Union and Unity may undergo, Solitariness and Solitude is profoundly supreme. Whatever designation you give the power, it is one and the same.\nOehler gives good reasons for the reading \u201cingenia circulatoria,\u201d instead of the various readings of other editors.\n520:6925\nInsignioris apud eos magistri.\n520:6926\nNon proferentes. Another reading is \u201cnon proserentes\u201d (not generating).\n520:6927 520:6928 520:6929 520:6930\nCompare our Iren\u00e6us, I. 2, 3. [Vol. I. p. 316.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part II: Other ...","type":"page"}