THE APOSTOLIC TRADITION OF HIPPOLYTUS TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY BURTON SCOTT EASTON ARCHON BOOKS Copyright 1934, Cambridge University Press REPRINTED 1962 BY ARRANGEMENT WITH CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA _To_ FRANK GAVIN PREFATORY NOTE This book was originally planned as the joint work of my colleague, Dr Frank Gavin, and myself. Other duties compelled him to withdraw from the undertaking, but it none the less owes more than can be told to his expert knowledge and lavishly given advice. Appreciative thanks are also due to Dr E. R. Hardy for his generous help in checking the translation from the Sahidic. CONTENTS _Prefatory Note_ _page_ vii Introduction 1 I. CHURCH ORDERS 1 II. HIPPOLYTUS 16 Translation 33 Notes 63 Indexes 107 THE IMPORTANT BOOKS Edmund Hauler. _Didascalia Apostolorum Fragmenta Ueronensia Latina. Accedunt Canonum qui Dicuntur Apostolorum et Aegyptiorum Reliquiae._ Leipzig, 1900. Paul de Lagarde. _Aegyptiaca_. Göttingen, 1883. George Horner. _The Statutes of the Apostles or Canones Ecclesiastici_. London, 1904. Since 1915 published by the Oxford University Press; the English translations only are included. R. Hugh Connolly. _The So-called Egyptian Church Order and Derived Documents_. Cambridge, 1916. Ernst Jungklaus. _Die Gemeinde Hippolyts_. Leipzig, 1928. At first included in the _Texte und Untersuchungen_. F. X. Funk. _Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum_. Paderborn, 1905. James Cooper and Arthur John Maclean. _The Testament of Our Lord._ Edinburgh, 1902. Wilhelm Riedel. _Die Kirchenrechtsquellen des Patriarchats Alexandrien._ Leipzig, 1900. John Wordsworth. _Bishop Sarapion’s Prayer-Book._ London, 1899. Arthur John Maclean. _The Ancient Church Orders._ Cambridge, 1910. Paul Wendland. _Hippolytus Werke._ Dritter Band. _Refutatio Omnium Haeresium._ Leipzig, 1916. In the Berlin _Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller_ series. The best text of the _Philosophumena_. Francis Legge. _[Hippolytus’s] Philosophumena._ London, 1921. The best English translation. Unfortunately Wendland’s critical text is ignored. INTRODUCTION