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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
This, therefore, is equipollent with Alpha and Omega, as α is equal to 1, and ω to 800. [Stuff! Bunsen, very naturally, exclaims.]
Chapter XLIV.—Respecting the Generation of the Twenty-Four Letters.
[793] [The Apostle John delights to call himself a presbyter, and St. Peter claims to be co-presbyter with the elders whom he exhorts. The Johannean school of primitive theologians seem to love this expression pre-eminently. It was almost as little specific in the primitive age as that of pastor or minister in our own.]
[794] [Here our author’s theory concerning the origin of heresy in heathen philosophy begins to be elaborated.]
[795] Satronilus (Miller).
[796] Or, “in no respect formed his system from the Scriptures, but from the tenets propounded by the Egyptians.”
[797] Cruice would prefer, “from the Gnostics,” on account of Cerinthus being coupled with the Gnostics and Ebionæans by Hippolytus, when he afterwards indicates the source from which Theodotus derived his heretical notions of Christ.
[798] Miller has “Sacerdon.”
[799] The word μόνος occurs in Miller’s text, but ought obviously to be expunged. It has probably, as Cruice conjectures, crept into the ms. from the termination of γενόμενος. Duncker suggests ὁμοίως.
[800] This rendering would ascribe Pantheism to Apelles. The passage might also be construed, “supposed there to exist an essence (that formed the basis) of the universe.”
[801] A hiatus here has given rise to conjecture. Cruice suggests χορός (band) instead of ὄρος.
[802] Or, “practices of the monsters,” or “inhospitable beasts.” Abbe Cruice suggests παροξέων, and Roeper ἐμπλάστων.
[803] Literally, the (accursed) tree.
Chapter II.—The System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle.
[804] What Hippolytus now states in regard of the opinions of Basilides, is quite new (compare Irenæus, i. 24; Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom., iii. and vii.; Tertullian, Præscript., xlvi.; Epiphanius, Hær., xxiv.; Theodoret, i. 4; Eusebius, Ecclesiast. Hist., iv. 7; and Philastrius, c. xxxii.). Abbe Cruice refers us to Basilidis philosophi Gnostici Sententiæ, by Jacobi (Berlin, 1852), and to Das Basilidianische System, etc., by Ulhorn (Gottingen, 1855).
Chapter III.—Sketch of Aristotle’s Philosophy.
[805] Or, “dispositions.”
Chapter IV.—Aristotle’s General Idea.
[806] Compare Porphyry’s Isagoge, c. ii., and Aristotle’s Categ., c. v.
Chapter VI.—Substance, According to Aristotle; The Predicates.
[807] Aristotle’s Categ., c. v.
[808] Or, “is sufficient.”
[809] Or, “the question is discussed.”
[810] [This word, not yet technical, as with us, is thus noted as curious. Of its force see Professor Caird, Encyc. Britannic., sub voce “Metaphysic.”]
[811] See Aristotle, De Anim., ii. 1.
[812] Literally, “out of tune.”
[813] These works must be among Aristotle’s lost writings (see Fabricius’ Bibl. Græc., t. iii. pp. 232, 404). We have no work of Aristotle’s expressly treating “of God.” However, the Stagyrite’s theology, such as it is, is unfolded in his Metaphysics. See Macmahon’s analysis prefixed to his translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Bohn’s Classical Library.
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