Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily VI/Chapter 12

Chapter XII.&#8212;Epitome of Appion&#8217;s Explanation.

And I answered: &#160; &#8220;I shall not at present speak particularly of that living egg, which was conceived by a happy combination out of infinite matter, and from which, when it was broken, the masculo-feminine Phanes leaped forth, as some say.&#160; I say little about all that, up to the point when this broken globe attained coherency, there being left in it some of its marrow-like matter; and I shall briefly run over the description of what took place in it by the agency of this matter, with all that followed.&#160; For from Kronos and Rhea were born, as you say&#8212;that is, by time and matter&#8212;first Pluto, who represents the sediment which settled down; and then Poseidon, the liquid substance in the middle, which floated over the heavier body below; and the third child&#8212;that is, Zeus&#8212;is the &#230;ther, and is highest of all.&#160; It was not devoured; but as it is a fiery power, and naturally ascends, it flew up as with a bound to the very highest &#230;ther.