Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume IHippolytus, Antipope
Philosophy
Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume I
Hippolytus, Antipope
Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Occultism; Philosophy, Ancient
[Footnote 35: _i. e._ restores to her the virility of which they had
deprived her when she was hermaphrodite. See n. on p. 119 _supra_.]
[Footnote 36: λελεγμένη. Miller and Schneidewin read δεδαιγμένη,
“open,” or “displayed.”]
[Footnote 37: Gal. iii. 28. So Clemens Romanus, _Ep._ ii. 12; Clem.
Alex. _Strom._, III, 13. Cf. _Pistis Sophia_, p. 378 (Copt).]
[Footnote 38: 2 Cor. v. 17; Gal. vi. 15.]
[Footnote 39: _i. e._ masculo-feminine. That Rhea, Cybele and Gê are
but different names of the earth-goddess, see Maury, _Rèl. de la Grèce
Antique_, I, 78 ff. For their androgyne character, see _J.R.A.S._ for
Oct. 1917.]
[Footnote 40: Rom. i. 20 ff. The text omits several sentences to be
found in the A.V.]
[Footnote 41: _Ibid._, v. 27.]
[Footnote 42: _Ibid._, v. 28.]
[Footnote 43: ἐπαγγελία τοῦ λουτροῦ, _pollicetur iis qui lavantur_, Cr.
But “the font” is the regular patristic expression for the rite.]
[Footnote 44: The text has ἄλλῳ, “other,” which makes no sense. Cruice,
following Schneidewin, alters it to ἀλάλῳ on the strength of p. 144
_infra_, and renders it _ineffabilis_; but ἀλάλος cannot mean anything
but “dumb” or “silent.” That baptism in the early heretical sects was
followed by a “chrism” or anointing, see _Forerunners_, II, 129, n. 2;
_ibid._, 192.]
[Footnote 45: Luke xvii. 21.]
[Footnote 46: This does not appear in the severely expurgated fragments
of the Gospel of Thomas which have come down to us. Epiphanius (_Hær._
xxxvii.) includes this gospel in a list of works especially favoured by
the Ophites.]
[Footnote 47: λόγος, Cr. _disciplina_, Macmahon, “Logos.” But see
Arnold, _Roman Stoicism_, p. 161.]
[Footnote 48: ὄργια. In Hippolytus it always has this meaning.]
[Footnote 49: Isis. See _Forerunners_, I, p. 34.]
[Footnote 50: ἡ μεταβλητὴ γένεσις. The expression is repeated in the
account of Simon Magus’ heresy (II, p. 13 _infra_) and refers to the
transmigration of souls.]
[Footnote 51: ἀνεξεικονίστος, “He of whom no image can be made.”]
[Footnote 52: Prov. xxiv. 16.]
[Footnote 53: Some qualification like “originally” or “at the
beginning” seems wanting. Cf. Arnold, _op. cit._, n. on p. 58 _supra_.]
[Footnote 54: Matt. v. 45.]
[Footnote 55: He has apparently mistaken Min of Coptos or Nesi-Amsu
for Osiris who is, I think, never represented thus. At Denderah, he is
supine.]
[Footnote 56: The “terms” of Hermes which Alcibiades and his friends
mutilated.]
[Footnote 57: δημιουργός. Here as always the “architect,” or he who
creates not _ex nihilo_, but from existing material.]
[Footnote 58: For this name which is said by all the early
heresiologists to mean “the God of the Jews,” see _Forerunners_, II,
46, n. 3. He is called a “fiery God” apparently from Deut. iv. 24, and
a fourth number, either because in the Ophite theogony he comes next
after the Supreme Triad of Father, Son, and Mother or, more probably,
from his name covering the Tetragrammaton, or name of God in four
letters.]
[Footnote 59: Ps. ii. 9.]
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