Four Books Against the Manichaeans

They were, indeed, slain. They destroyed the two heads of all life for the sake of human beings. They destroyed them just as those who were the first to be killed by the bonds. They slew him just as one who had previously set him up for human beings. Just as his slaughter, just as the one who was before [the origin] of human beings.

The remainder of the source text consists of an extensive, repetitive sequence of the words "He," "They," and "As" (or "When"), which appear to be fragments or a corrupted repetition in the manuscript transcription, likely reflecting a repetitive rhetorical emphasis or an error in the original OCR scan.