Category: History - Religious
The story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called _Philosophumena_, or “Philosophizings,” had long been known, four early copies of it being in existenc...
The story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called _P...
4. Book X seems at first sight likely to solve many of the questionswhich every reader who has got so far is compelled to ask. It begins, in accordance with the habit just noted, with the statement that the author has now worked through “the Lab...
5. Book X,[70] and everything goes to show the truth of Cruice’s remarkthat the author was evidently not a trained writer. This is by no means inconsistent with the theory that the whole work is by Hippolytus, and is the more probable if we conclud...
6. Book VIII, where he speaks of the seed of the fig-tree as “a refuge forthe terror-stricken, a shelter for the naked, a veil for modesty, and the sought-for produce to which the Lord came in search of fruit three times and found none.”[73] But it is...
7. BOOK I[1What were the tenets of the natural philosophers and who these were; and what those of the ethicists and who these were; and what those of the dialecticians and who the dialecti...
8. ill. He says therefore that the virtues are extremes as to honour, butmeans as to substance.[119] For there is nothing more honourable than virtue; but that which goes beyond or falls short of these virtues ends in vice. For instance, he says that...
9. Book VII, II, pp. 82 ff. _infra_.[Footnote 52: Diog. Laert., VIII, _vit. Heraclit._, from whom Hippolytus is probably quoting, says that in his boyhood, Heraclitus used to say, he knew nothing, in his manhood e...
10. BOOK IV(The first pages of this book have been torn away from the MS., and we are therefore deprived of the small Table of Contents which the author has prefixed to the other seven. Fr...
11. BOOK V2. What the Naassenes say who call themselves Gnostics, and that they profess those opinions which the philosophers of the Greeks and the transmitters of the Mysteries first lai...