The name "Demogorgon" is introduced in a discussion of "Thebaid" 4.516, which mentions "the supreme being of the threefold world" ("triplicis mundi summum"). In one manuscript, the author says of Statius, "Dicit deum Demogorgona summum, cuius scire nomen non licet" ("He is speaking of the Demogorgon, the supreme god, whose name it is not permitted to know", or perhaps "He is speaking of a god, the supreme Demogorgon"). Prior to Lactantius, there is no mention of the supposed "Demogorgon" anywhere by any writer, pagan or Christian. However, as noted above, there are several different manuscript traditions, including one that gives "demoirgon", which has been taken by most critical editors to indicate some form of misconstruction of the Greek "dēmiourgon". Jahnke thus restores the text to read "He is speaking of the Demiurge, whose name it is not permitted to know". However, this phantom word in one of the manuscript traditions took on a life of its own among later scholars.