Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/Against the Valentinians/XXXVIII

Chapter XXXVIII.&#8212;Diversity in the Opinions of Secundus, as Compared with the General Doctrine of Valentinus.

Secundus is a trifle more human, as he is briefer: he divides the Ogdoad into a pair of Tetrads, a right hand one and a left hand one, one light and the other darkness. Only he is unwilling to derive the power which apostatized and fell away from any one of the &#198;ons, but from the fruits which issued from their substance.