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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[979] Γναφέων: some read γναφείῳ, i.e., a fuller’s soap. The proper reading, however, is probably γνάφω, i.e., a carder’s comb. Dr. Wordsworth’s text has γραφέων and ἐν τῷ γραφείῳ, and he translates the passage thus: “The path,” says he, “of the lines of the machine called the screw is both straight and crooked, and the revolution in the graving-tool is both straight and crooked.”
[980] See Diogenes, Laertius, ix. 8.
[981] Plato, Clemens Alexandrinus, [vol. ii. p. 384, this series], and Sextus Empiricus notice this doctrine of Heraclitus.
[982] ᾽Ενθάδε ἔοντας: some read, ἔνθα θεὸν δεῖ, i.e., “God must arise and become the guardian,” etc. The rendering in the text is adopted by Bernays and Bunsen.
[983] Or, “as commingled kinds of incense each with different names, but denominated,” etc.
[984] Dr. Wordsworth reads ὃ νομίζεται, and translates the passage thus: “But they undergo changes, as perfumes do, when whatever is thought agreeable to any individual is mingled with them.”
[985] Hippolytus repeats this opinion in his summary in book x. (See Theodoret, Hær. Fab., iii. 3.)
[986] [Elucidation IX.]
[987] [Elucidation X.]
[988] The ms. reads καθ᾽ ἡδίαν, obviously corrupt. Dr. Wordsworth suggests κατ᾽ ιδιαν, i.e., “he, under pretext of arguing with them, deluded them.”
[989] It is to be noticed how the plural number is observed in this account, as keeping before the reader’s mind the episcopal office of him who was thus exercising high ecclesiastical authority. [Elucidation XI.]
[990] It is to be noticed how the plural number is observed in this account, as keeping before the reader’s mind the episcopal office of him who was thus exercising high ecclesiastical authority. [Elucidation XI.]
[991] Or, “with violence.”
[992] Hippolytus is obviously sneering at the martyrdom of Callistus, who did not in reality suffer or die for the truth. Nay, his condemnation before Fuscianus enabled Callistus to succeed entirely in his plans for worldly advancement. [The martyrdom of Callistus, so ludicrous in the eyes of our author, is doctrine in the Roman system. This heretic figures as a saint, and has his festival on the 14th of October. Maxima veneratione colitur, says the Roman Breviary.]
[993] The Latin name is written by Hippolytus in Greek letters, and means “the public fish-market.” The Piscina, one of the fourteen quarters of Rome, was the resort of money-dealers.
[994] The Pistrinum was the domestic treadmill of the Roman slaveholders.
[995] [An instance illustrative of the touching sense of moral obligation given in 2 Kings vi. 5.]
[996] See Josephus, Antiq., xix. 10.
[997] The air of Sardinia was unwholesome, if not pestilential; and for this reason, no doubt, it was selected as a place of exile for martyrs. Hippolytus himself, along with the Roman bishop Pontianus, was banished thither. See Introductory Notice.
[998] Marcia’s connection with the emperor would not seem very consistent with the Christian character which Hippolytus gives her. Dr. Wordsworth supposes that Hippolytus speaks ironically in the case of Marcia, as well as of Hyacinthus and Carpophorus. [I do not see the evidence of this. Poor Marcia, afterwards poisoned by the wretch who degraded, was a heathen who under a little light was awakening to some sense of duty, like the woman of Samaria,John iv. 19.]
[999] [Note this expression in contrast with subsequent claims to be the “Universal Bishop.”]
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