Azbyka Scraper

* Philosophumena Or The Refutation Of All Heresies. Vol. 2Were these ἑτέροι λόγοι the treatise “On the All” which Hippolytus wrote?As throughout the words in round brackets ( ) are supplied by Cruice. In this chapter they are mainly taken from Gen. xi., which see.Καάθ. In all these names I have used the spelling of the A. V. as being more familiar to the general reader than that of the LXX.If Abraham did not beget Isaac until he had been twenty-five years in Canaan, the figures would be for Abraham twenty-five, for Isaac sixty, for Jacob eighty-seven, for Levi forty, for Kohath four. But this makes 216 at least.So the fragment of the *Chronicon* attributed to Hippolytus in Fabricius, S. Hippolyt. *Opera*, p. 50, which perhaps goes to show the authorship of the Summary.ἐπὶ τούτων, that is reckoning from Noah to Eber.ἐκτεθείμεθα. The phrase that he uses everywhere in the book for statements in *this* work. See n. on previous page.σοφία. This is in pursuance of Hippolytus’ favourite theory that philosophy was the source of all heresy.ἀρξάντων. Macmahon translates “were born,” but I think the word is never used in that sense by Hippolytus.Reading γένους with the Codex instead of the γένος of Cruice.Because these “God-fearing men” were before the Flood, and the others could only have descended from Shem, Ham or Japhet.This seems to be the author’s meaning, but the reading is not very well settled. Cruice translates *qui non elegantibus verbis divina coluimus*, which Macmahon follows.This is, of course, an allusion to the theories of the “Barbarians” on the Deity set out in Book IV. Cf. Vol. I, p. 104 *supra*.It is curious that throughout this chapter he uses “spirit” as the fourth element instead of “air.” So Photius, quoting from the work “On the All,” which is attributed to Hippolytus.