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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[24] An elaborate defence of this position forms the subject of Cudworth’s great work, The True Intellectual System of the Universe.
[25] This statement has been urged against Origen’s authorship, in favour of Epiphanius, who wrote an extended treatise on the Heresies, with an abridgment.
[26] That is, their esoteric mysteries, intended only for a favoured few, as contrasted with the exoteric, designed for more general diffusion.
[27] One ms. has—“the profane opinion and unreasonable attempt.”
[28] “To learn” (Roeper).
[29] “And those that are irrational animals do not attempt,” (or) “because irrational,” etc. The last is Sancroft’s reading; that in the text, Roeper’s.
[30] “Ascend up to” (Roeper).
[31] This passage is quoted by those who impugn the authorship of Origen on the ground of his never having been a bishop of the Church. It is not, however, quite certain that the words refer to the episcopal office exclusively.
[32] The common reading is in the future, but the present tense is adopted by Richter in his Critical Observations, p. 77.
[33] It might be, “any opinion that may be subservient to the subject taken in hand.” This is Cruice’s rendering in his Latin version. A different reading is, “we must not be silent as regards reasons that hold good,” or, “as regards rational distinctions,” or, “refrain from utterances through the instrument of reasoning.” The last is Roeper’s.
[34] Another reading is, “bringing into a collection.”
[35] Or, “the Spirit.”
[36] Or, “indicating a witness;” or, “having adduced testimony.”
[37] Or, “a starting-point.”
[38] Or, “devoting his attention to;” or, “having lighted upon.”
[39] The chief writers on the early heresies are: Irenæus, of the second century; Hippolytus, his pupil, of the third; Philastrius, Epiphanius, and St. Augustine, of the fourth century. The learned need scarcely be reminded of the comprehensive digest furnished by Ittigius in the preface to his dissertation on the heresies of the apostolic and post-apostolic ages. A book more within the reach of the general reader is Dr. Burton’s Inquiry into the Heresies of the Apostolic Age.
Chapter I.—Thales; His Physics and Theology; Founder of Greek Astronomy.
[40] [These were: Periander of Corinth, b.c. 585; Pittacus of Mitylene, b.c. 570; Thales of Miletus, b.c. 548: Solon of Athens, b.c. 540; Chilo of Sparta, b.c. 597; Bias of Priene; Cleobulus of Lindus, b.c. 564.]
[41] Or, “motions of the stars” (Roeper).
[42] Or, “carried along” (Roeper).
[43] Or,“ that which is divine.” See Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom., v. pp. 461, 463 (Heinsius and Sylburgius’ ed.). Thales, on being asked, “What is God?” “That,” replied he, “which has neither beginning nor end.”
[44] Or, “see.”
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