Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume IIHippolytus, Antipope
Philosophy
Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume II
Hippolytus, Antipope
Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Occultism; Philosophy, Ancient
[Footnote 19: ἕκαστον [sic]. _One_ of the accidents would make better
sense. Cf. vol. I, p. 56 _supra_.]
[Footnote 20: _i.e._ “inherent.”]
[Footnote 21: τὰ ἄτομα.]
[Footnote 22: συμπληροῦται.]
[Footnote 23: οὐσία, which here as elsewhere in the text may be
translated “essence.” “Being,” perhaps, is better here as more familiar
to the English reader.]
[Footnote 24: These definitions of “accident” and the like are not to
be found in the _Categories_ of Aristotle as we have them in the work
known as the _Organon_, nor in any other of his extant works. But they
correspond with those given in Book VI, and are there attributed to
Pythagoras. Cf. p. 21 _supra_.]
[Footnote 25: οὐσία throughout.]
[Footnote 26: That is, makes fables or myths about the gods.]
[Footnote 27: Macmahon remarks that these must be among Aristotle’s
lost works. This is doubtful.]
[Footnote 28: ἀποκρύφους. Is Matthias a corruption of Glaucias? See n.
on p. 59 _supra_.]
[Footnote 29: Basilides and his son must therefore have been
contemporaries of the Apostles. Even if we treat the word αὐτοῖς here
as a copyist’s interpolation, it is evident that Basilides must have
been considerably anterior in time to Valentinus.]
[Footnote 30: πραγμάτων, “transactions.”]
[Footnote 31: The words in this sentence in square brackets are
emendations in the text made by different editors.]
[Footnote 32: πραγμάτων, as in last note but one.]
[Footnote 33: κατὰ πλάτος καὶ διαίρεσιν.]
[Footnote 34: Basilides is thus the first Gnostic to teach the doctrine
of creation _e nihilo_.]
[Footnote 35: ὑποστήσας. Cf. the legend of Cybele, Vol. I, p. 118, n. 1
_supra_.]
[Footnote 36: πανσπερμίαν. The word is found in the fragments of
Anaxagoras and Democritus as well as in Plato. Its use has been revived
by Darwin and Weissmann.]
[Footnote 37: ἰδέας.]
[Footnote 38: οὐσιῶν. Nothing is here got by translating the word
“substances.”]
[Footnote 39: πολυούσιον. Galen uses it as equivalent to “very
wealthy.”]
[Footnote 40: ὁποῖον. As in Aristotle, _Cate._, c. 5.]
[Footnote 41: This with Hippolytus’ interpolated remark emphasizes the
great difference between Basilides’ doctrine with its assertion of the
creation _e nihilo_ and the emanation theory of all other Gnostics. It
does away with the necessity for a pre-existent matter.]
[Footnote 42: Gen. 1. 3.]
[Footnote 43: John 1. 9. This and “Mine hour is not yet come” are the
only undoubted references to the Fourth Gospel made by Basilides.]
[Footnote 44: ἀρχάς.]
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