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It seems that Origen also, has preceded myself in recognition of the fact that the two thieves are the "archons of this age": Origen is a little less clear on the relation between Christ and the goat which is sent away, but what he does say is fascinating. In one section of his homily, Ori...

Thus, Jesus has appeared ‘between the two living being s’, Anastasius writes (239.19-20), both on the Mountain of the Skull (between the two thieves, in a manner befitting the Cross, stauroprep¬v) and on the Mountain of the Transfiguration , between Moses and Elijah, in a manner befitting God (qeop...

Here the equation "archons of this age == OT prophets" is made definitely more and more explicit:
John 10:8:

So Couchoud was 100% right about Barabbas as a mere judaizing parody of the marcionite Son of Father.

38 “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?” 39 “We can,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with, 40 but to sit at my right or ...

Question that the historicists can't never answer: how can the crucifixion of Jesus be embarrassing if the "archons of this age" themselves are crucified with him?

Elijah as the Demiurge himself: 33 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34 And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “ Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). 35 When some of those standing nea...

Still on the archontic, even satanic nature of Elijiah as the "Prophet": After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world". (ὁ προφήτης ὁ ἐρχόμενος εἰς τὸν κόσμον) (John 6:14) I will not say much more to you, f...

On the archontic nature of Elijiah (and of all the prophets as an entire): 11. Moreover, they distribute the prophets in the following manner : Moses, and Joshua the Son of Nun, and Amos, and Habakkuk, belonged to Ialdabaoth; Samuel, and Nathan, and Jonah, and Micah, to Iao; Elijah , Joel, and Zecha...

On the archontic nature of Moses:


(Galatians 3:19)

Colossians 2:15 is clearly in view here, confirming definitely the Gnostic nature of proto-Mark (being Colossians the Gnostic epistle by definition): And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them , triumphing over them by the cross This is the reason why the Rule...