Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume II
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[Footnote 104: So Cruice. Macmahon says, “which evil is not consummated
except you actually commit some piece of wickedness,” But the reading
is very uncertain.]
[Footnote 105: τί καὶ νόμος ὡρίζετο, “why was the Law enacted?”]
[Footnote 106: πρὸ ἑωσφόρου, “Before the Morning Star.” Cf. 2 Peter i.
18, 19.]
[Footnote 107: διὰ τὸ προφαίνειν. The real derivation is from πρόφημι.]
[Footnote 108: Cruice points out the likeness between this doctrine
of the Word speaking through the Prophets, and that with which Origen
begins his treatise, Περὶ Ἀρχῶν (I, § 1), that before the Incarnation
“Christ, the Word of God, was in Moses and the prophets.” It was
doubtless this, and the likeness between the theory of the origin of
evil as given on pp. 518, 519 Cr. of our text, and that of Origen
_in Joann_, II, 7, 8, which caused some commentator to write in the
margin of the Codex, Ὠριγένης καὶ Ὠριγένους δόξα: “Origen and Origen’s
opinions.” The words used in the two cases are too unlike to suggest
any identity of authorship or conscious borrowing; but it is perfectly
probable that Origen when in Rome communicated with Hippolytus as head
of the Greek-speaking community there, and that they had many ideas
in common. This would account at once for the likeness between the
passages noted and for the confusion between Hippolytus and Origen
as the author of the _Philosophumena_, while it throws new light on
Origen’s condemnation for heresy.]
[Footnote 109: ἑκουσίῳ προαιρέσει.]
[Footnote 110: Reading with Cruice πεφυρακότα for the πεφορηκότα of
Miller. Although Miller’s reading accords with the Scriptural “put on
the old man,” the allusion is evidently to the φυράμα of a few lines
lower down.]
[Footnote 111: This is evidently an allusion to the extraordinary
theory of Hippolytus’ master, Irenæus (Book II, c. 33, § 3, p. 331,
Harvey), that Christ having suffered at 30 years old lived and taught
after the Resurrection until He was “40 or 50,” thus “passing through
every age.” Cf. _Forerunners_, II, p. 61 and note.]
[Footnote 112: σκόπον, “arm” or “goal.”]
[Footnote 113: φυράμα, lit., “dough” or plastic substance.]
[Footnote 114: An allusion to the Word on the Cross.]
[Footnote 115: περὶ τὸν Θεῖον.]
[Footnote 116: It is curious that he does not call them Romans.]
[Footnote 117: The Greek name for the province called by the Romans
Africa.]
[Footnote 118: He is here repeating the phrase used on p. 150, with
which he begins this Book. Its repetition shows the continuity of this
last and that it was all written at the same time and by the same
author.]
[Footnote 119: Ταρταρούχων ἀγγέλων κολαστῶν. Tartaruchian is a Coptic
form. See Budge’s _Miscellaneous Texts of Upper Egypt_, 1915, p. 590.]
[Footnote 120: ὁμιλητης Θεοῦ, Cr. _familiaris_, Macm., “companion of.”]