841 sqq.] [298:2] It is not necessary here to determine the sense in which these words are to be taken.

I had elsewhere given my reasons for taking [Greek: erchomenon] with [Greek: anthropon], as A.V.
(_Fourth Gospel_, p.

6, n.).

Mr.M'Clellan is now to be added to the number of those who prefer to take it with [Greek: phos], and argues ably in favour of his opinion.
[299:1] The translation of this difficult passage has been left on purpose somewhat baldly literal.

The idea seems to be that Basilides refused to accept projection or emanation as a hypothesis to account for the existence of created things.