{"collection":"Gnosticism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/gno/th3/th335.htm","path":"gno/th3/th335.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/gno/th3/th335.htm","text":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906]\ni. De Idolorum Vanitate, vi.; Baluze, p. 220 (Paris, 1726).\nThrice-Greatest Hermes speaks of the One God, and confesses Him beyond all understanding and all appraisement.\nThis is evidently a reference to the most quoted sentence of Hermes. See Justin Martyr i. below, and other references.\nChambers (p. 140), after this notice in Cyprian, inserts a passage from Eusebius (c. 325 A.D.), which he says is \u201ca clear quotation from the \u2018P\u0153mandres\u2019 of Hermes, whom, however, he [Eusebius] probably confounds with the Shepherd of Hermas.\u201d\nEusebius (Hist. Ecc., v. 8), however, quotes Iren\u00e6us (iv. 20, 2), who quotes literally The Shepherd of Hermas (Mand., i.). Indeed, it is the most famous sentence in that early document. See the list of its quotations by the Fathers in the note to Gebhardt and Harnack\u2019s text (Leipzig, 1897), p. 70. Such verbal exactitude is not to be found in the remaining Trismegistic literature; the idea, however, is the basis of the whole Trismegistic theology.\n229:1 About 200-258 A.D.","title":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3: II. References and Fragments in the Fathers: V. Cyprian","type":"page"}