If St . Paul actually wrote a book with that title ( and the assertion that he did is an old assertion ), the Ophite heresy ( which is accurately described there ) would have been its probable topic ( " Ophite " coming from the Greek word for serpent ), and Paul would have written against it.
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If St . Paul actually wrote a book with that title ( and the assertion that he did is an old assertion ), the Ophite heresy ( which is accurately described there ) would have been its probable topic ( " Ophite " coming from the Greek word for serpent ), and Paul would have written against it.
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Like to this legend of the " Philosophumena " concerning the Baruch-Gnosis is that which is related by Epiphanius of an Ophite Party that they fabled that a Serpent from the Upper World had had sexual intercourse with the Earth as with a woman ( Epiphanius, " Haer " . 45 : 1 cf . 2 ).
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Although the myths of the earlier Ophite system are but lightly touched on, there is some trace of an acquaintance with them, as for example the myth that Adam was brought forth by the Earth spontaneously; he lay without breath, without motion, without stirring, like a statue; being made after the image of the First Man, through the agency of several Archons.
