During the meals we partook of at the table of M. d'Asterac the conversation turned on the opinions of the gnostics and on the knowledge of the ancient Egyptians.

我们在 M. d'Asterac 的餐桌旁用餐时， 谈话转向了诺斯替教徒的观点和古埃及人的知识。

Wherefore, gentlemen, it is convenient to explore the books of the Hebrews, the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians and those treatises of the Greeks which are called Gnostic precisely because they possessed knowledge.

因此，先生们，探索希伯来人的书籍、埃及人的象形文字和希腊人的那些论文是很方便的， 正是因为他们拥有知识而被称为诺斯替派。

" My boy, " he said, " I have conversed of Zosimus and the gnostics at the table of a very learned ecclesiastic, quite another Peiresc. The wine was coarse and the fare but middling, but nectar and ambrosia floated through the discourse" .

“我的孩子， ” 他说，“我在一位非常博学的牧师， 完全是另一个 Peiresc 的餐桌上与 Zosimus 和诺斯替教徒交谈过。酒很粗糙，食物也很一般， 但花蜜和仙酒在谈话中飘荡” 。