Hippolytus

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^[949] Bunsen thinks that Hippolytus is rather meagre in his details of the heresy of the Phrygians or Montanists, but considers this, with other instances, a proof that parts of The Refutation are only abstracts of more extended accounts.

Chapter XIII.—The Doctrines of the Encratites.

^[950] [See my Introductory Note to Hermas, vol. ii. p. 5, this series.]

^[951] 1 Tim. iv. 1-5.

^[952] [This, Tertullian should have learned. How happily Keble, in his Christian Year, gives it in sacred verse:—

“We need not bid, for cloister’d cell,

Our neighbour and our work farewell,

Nor strive to wind ourselves too high

For sinful man beneath the sky:

“The trivial round, the common task,

Would furnish all we ought to ask;

Room to deny ourselves; a road

To bring us daily nearer God.”]

^[953] Those did homage to Cain.

^[954] The Ophites are not considered, as Hippolytus has already devoted so much of his work to the Naasseni. The former denomination is derived from the Greek, and the latter from the Hebrew, and both signify worshippers of the serpent.

^[955] Hippolytus seemingly makes this a synonyme with Ophites. Perhaps it is connected with the Hebrew word נָחָשׁ

Contents.

^[956] Or, “fruitless;” or “unmeaning.”

Chapter I.—An Account of Contemporaneous Heresy.

^[957] [Elucidation IV.]

^[958] [1 Cor. xi. 19. These terrible confusions were thus foretold. Note the remarkable feeling, the impassioned tone, of the Apostle’s warning in Acts xx. 28-31.]

^[959] [The Philosophumena, therefore, responds to the Apostle’s warnings. Col. ii. 8; 1 Tim. vi. 20; Gal. iv. 3, 9; Col. ii. 20.]

Chapter II.—Source of the Heresy of Noetus; Cleomenes His Disciple; Its Appearance at Rome During the Episcopates of Zephyrinus and Callistus; Noetianism Opposed at Rome by Hippolytus.

^[960] See Fragments of Hippolytus’ Works (p. 235 et seq.), edited by Fabricius; Theodoret, Hær. Fab., iii. 3; Epiphanius, Hær., lvii.; and Philastrius, Hæret., liv. Theodoret mentions Epigonus and Cleomenes, and his account is obviously adopted by Hippolytus.

^[961] [See Tatian, vol. ii. p. 66, this series.]

^[962] [See note 2, cap. iii. infra., and Elucidation V.]

^[963] [See Elucidation VI.]

^[964] [See Elucidation VI.]

^[965] [Note the emphasis and repeated statement with which our author dwells on this painful charge.]

^[966] [Elucidation VI.]

^[967] 2 Pet. ii. 22. [See book x. cap xxiii., p. 148, infra.]

Chapter III.—Noetianism an Offshoot from the Heraclitic Philosophy.

^[968] [῾Ο Σκοτεινός, because he maintained the darkest system of sensual philosophy that ever shed night over the human intellect.—T. Lewis in Plato against the Atheists, p. 156; Elucidation VII.]

^[969] [Note the use of this phrase, “imagine themselves, etc.,” as a specialty of our author’s style. See cap. ii. supra; Elucidation VIII.]

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