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[Footnote 75: Were these ἑτέροι λόγοι the treatise “On the All” which
Hippolytus wrote?]
[Footnote 76: As throughout the words in round brackets ( ) are
supplied by Cruice. In this chapter they are mainly taken from Gen.
xi., which see.]
[Footnote 77: Καὰθ. In all these names I have used the spelling of the
A. V. as being more familiar to the general reader than that of the
LXX.]
[Footnote 78: If Abraham did not beget Isaac until he had been
twenty-five years in Canaan, the figures would be for Abraham
twenty-five, for Isaac sixty, for Jacob eighty-seven, for Levi forty,
for Kohath four. But this makes 216 at least.]
[Footnote 79: So the fragment of the _Chronicon_ attributed to
Hippolytus in Fabricius, S. Hippolyt. _Opera_, p. 50, which perhaps
goes to show the authorship of the Summary.]
[Footnote 80: φιλομαθέσιν.]
[Footnote 81: ἐπὶ τούτων, that is reckoning from Noah to Eber.]
[Footnote 82: Cruice would read 495 years.]
[Footnote 83: ἐκτεθείμεθα. The phrase that he uses everywhere in the
book for statements in _this_ work. See n. on previous page.]
[Footnote 84: σοφία. This is in pursuance of Hippolytus’ favourite
theory that philosophy was the source of all heresy.]
[Footnote 85: ἀρξάντων. Macmahon translates “were born,” but I think
the word is never used in that sense by Hippolytus.]
[Footnote 86: ῥῆμα Θεοῦ. An unusual phrase here.]
[Footnote 87: Gen. i, 23.]
[Footnote 88: Reading γένους with the Codex instead of the γένος of
Cruice.]
[Footnote 89: Because these “God-fearing men” were before the Flood,
and the others could only have descended from Shem, Ham or Japhet.]
[Footnote 90: This seems to be the author’s meaning, but the reading is
not very well settled. Cruice translates _qui non elegantibus verbis
divina coluimus_, which Macmahon follows.]
[Footnote 91: This is, of course, an allusion to the theories of the
“Barbarians” on the Deity set out in Book IV. Cf. Vol. I, p. 104
_supra_.]
[Footnote 92: It is curious that throughout this chapter he uses
“spirit” as the fourth element instead of “air.” So Photius, quoting
from the work “On the All,” which is attributed to Hippolytus.]
[Footnote 93: This work is known to us by the list on the chair
mentioned in the Introduction, and by a notice by Photius, who seems
to have read the work under the name of Josephus. Cf. Salmon in _D. C.
B._, s.n. “Hippolytus Romanus.”]
[Footnote 94: This Λόγος ἐνδιάθετος which Philo distinguishes from
the Λόγος προφορικός seems to have been a phrase first adopted into
Christian theology by Theophilus of Antioch.]
[Footnote 95: ἅμα.]
[Footnote 96: τὸ κατὰ ἕν.]
[Footnote 97: ὑπουργῇ.]
[Footnote 98: Like most of the ancients, Hippolytus does not know that
fish have sex.]
[Footnote 99: Cf. Matt. xxv. 21, 23; Luke xix. 17.]
[Footnote 100: ἐπιδέχεται λύσιν, “receives dissolution.”]
[Footnote 101: αὐτεξούσιον, “his own authority”?]
[Footnote 102: _i. e._ to his passions. See p. 178 _infra_.]
[Footnote 103: πάντα ἔχον τὰ ἐναντία.]