Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume II
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[Footnote 64: This, on the other hand, is taken almost _verbatim_ from
c. 33 of Book VII (pp. 92, 93 _supra_), the few slight differences
between the two chapters being not other than a careless scribe might
be expected to make.]
[Footnote 65: This also from Book VII, p. 93 _supra_, but slightly
condensed.]
[Footnote 66: This also appears to be condensed from the account of
Theodotus in Book VII, pp. 93, 94 _supra_. The summarizer adds to it
the alleged denial by Theodotus of Christ’s divinity, which does not
appear in Book VII.]
[Footnote 67: This, too, is not inconsistent with the account of “other
Theodotians” in Book VII, pp 94, 95 _supra_, but omits all reference to
the Nicolaitans.]
[Footnote 68: Here the summarizer reverts to Book VIII, pp. 113, 114
_supra_, from which his account of the Phrygians or Montanists appears
to be taken. The phrases used are not identical, and while Book VIII
merely says that the Montanist heresy agrees with the Patripassianism
of the Noetian, the Summary declares that the first was absolutely
derived from the second.]
[Footnote 69: κατὰ καιροὺς καλούμενον πρὸς τὰ συμβαίνοντα. Cf. the
καλούμενον κατὰ χρόνων τροπήν, p. 434 Cr. Otherwise this chapter seems
to be a condensed paraphrase rather than a series of extracts from
Book IX, the summarizer having here added together the “heresies” so
called of Noetus and Callistus. As mentioned in the Introduction, he
is careful not to mention that Callistus was a Pope, and in the last
sentence but one, he omits the name of Sabellius which is mentioned in
the earlier book. Cf. p. 130 _supra_.]
[Footnote 70: He now reverts to Hermogenes, against whom Tertullian
wrote, and who must therefore in the time of Callistus have long been
dead. The few lines given here correspond to the opening sentences of
the chapter on this heretic in Book VIII, p. 112 _supra_, which see.]
[Footnote 71: μεταγγιζόμενον, lit., “poured” as from one vessel into
another--a considerable amplification of the statement in Book IX, p.
134 _supra_.]
[Footnote 72: Water and Earth are the only two “elements” mentioned in
the exorcisms attributed to the Elchesaites in Book IX, p. 135 _supra_.]
[Footnote 73: The statements in this account of the Elchesaites are all
to be found in the description of them in Book IX, pp. 132-138 _supra_;
but the same words are not used, and there is nothing to show that the
summarizer had the earlier book before him at the time of writing.]
[Footnote 74: Cruice suggests that the considerable lacuna that there
evidently is here was filled by a summary of the chapters on the Jewish
sects with which Book IX ends (see pp. 455-472 Cr.). This hardly seems
to correspond with the form of what is left; but it is not impossible
that we have here excerpts from the book on chronology which we know
Hippolytus to have written. Another suggestion is that what follows is
from his _Commentary on Genesis_, of which a few fragments survive.]