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VII. APOCALYPSIS or Revelation of Adam. The Gnosticks, as Epiphanius informs us1, had an Apocalypse, of which they supposed Adam to be the Author. They who were concerned in writing this work, took occasion doubtless of forging it from what is said in Genesis of the Lord’s causing a deep sleep to fall on Adam, or as Gen. xi. 21. Heb. 70. Ἔκστασιν.the Septuagint have it, an extasy.
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Epiphan. Hæres. 31. c. 8. Gnostic. ↩
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