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Hippolytus
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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.
[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.
[814] Aristotle composed three treatises on ethical subjects: (1) Ethics to Nicomachus; (2) Great Morals; (3) Morals to Eudemus.
[815] Miller erroneously reads “Matthew.”
[816] (See Bunsen, i. v. 86. A fabulous reference may convey a truth. This implies that Matthias was supposed to have preached and left results of his teachings.]
Chapter IX.—Basilides Adopts the Aristotelian Doctrine of “Nonentity.”
[817] This emendation is made by Abbe Cruice. The ms. has “incomposite,” an obviously untenable reading.
Chapter X.—Origin of the World; Basilides’ Account of the “Sonship.”
[818] Or, “of what sort of material substance,” etc.
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