Hippolytus

Footnotes

^[700] These words are a line out of Pythagoras’ Golden Verses:—

Πηγή τις ἀενάου φύσεως ῥιζώματ᾽ ἔχουσα—(48).

^[701] The Abbe Cruise thinks that a comparison of this passage with the corresponding one in Irenæus suggests the addition of οἱ δορυφόροι after Λόγος, i.e., the Logos and his satellites. [Vol. i. p. 381, this series.]

^[702] Gen. ii. 7.

^[703] Or, “subterranean” (Cruice).

^[704] Epiphanius, Hær., xxxi. sec. 7.

^[705] Eph. iii. 14-18.

^[706] 1 Cor. ii. 14.

Chapter XXX.—Valentinus’ Explanation of the Birth of Jesus; Twofold Doctrine on the Nature of Jesus’ Body; Opinion of the Italians, that Is, Heracleon and Ptolemæus; Opinion of the Orientals, that Is, Axionicus and Bardesanes.

^[707] Epiphanius, Hær., xxxi. 22.

^[708] John x. 8.

^[709] Col. i. 26.

^[710] Luke i. 35.

^[711] Rom. viii. 11, 12.

^[712] Gen. iii. 19.

^[713] Axionicus is mentioned by Tertullian only (see Tertullian, Contr. Valent., c. iv; [vol. iii. p. 505, this series]).

^[714] Bardesianes (or Ardesianes, as Miller’s text has it) is evidently the same with Bardesanes, mentioned by Eusebius and St. Jerome.

Chapter XXXI.—Further Doctrines of Valentinus Respecting the Æons; Reasons for the Incarnation.

^[715] κατηχήθη. Miller’s text has κατήχθη, which is properly corrected by Bunsen into the word as translated above.

^[716] Ex. vi. 2, 3.

^[717] Or, “the multitudes.”

Chapter XXXII.—Valentinus Convicted of Plagiarisms from Plato.

^[718] Cruice thinks that the following extract from Plato’s epistles has been added by a second hand. [Cf. vol. iii. p. 181, this series.]

^[719] There are some verbal diversities between the texts of Plato and Hippolytus, which a reference will show (see Plat., Epist., t. ix. p. 76, ed. Bekker).