Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix
FATHERS OF THE THIRD CENTURY: HIPPOLYTUS, CYPRIAN, CAIUS, NOVATIAN, APPENDIX
ANTE-NICENE FATHERS VOLUME 5. HIPPOLYTUS, CYPRIAN, CAIUS, NOVATIAN, APPENDIX.
THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS DOWN TO A.D. 325
HIPPOLYTUS
The Refutation of All Heresies
The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus
CYPRIAN
The Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr
The Epistles of Cyprian
The Treatises of Cyprian
The Seventh Council of Carthage under Cyprian
Treatises Attributed to Cyprian on Questionable Authority
CAIUS
Fragments of Caius
NOVATIAN
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
On the Jewish Meats
Appendix
Acts and Records of the Famous Controversy About the Baptism of Heretics
Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian
Treatise on Re-baptism
HIPPOLYTUS
The Refutation of All Heresies
Book I
Chapter I - Thales; His Physics and Theology; Founder of Greek Astronomy
Chapter II - Pythagoras; His Cosmogony; Rules of His Sect; Discoverer of Physiognomy; His Philosophy of Numbers; His System of the Transmigration of Souls; Zaratas on Demons; Why Pythagoras Forbade the Eating of Beans; The Mode of Living Adopted by His Disciples
Chapter III - Empedocles; His Twofold Cause; Tenet of Transmigration
Chapter IV - Heraclitus; His Universal Dogmatism; His Theory of Flux; Other Systems
Chapter V - Anaximander; His Theory of the Infinite; His Astronomic Opinions; His Physics
Chapter VI - Anaximenes; His System of “An Infinite Air;” His Views of Astronomy and Natural Phenomena
Chapter VII - Anaxagoras; His Theory of Mind; Recognises an Efficient Cause; His Cosmogony and Astronomy
Chapter VIII - Archelaus; System Akin to that of Anaxagoras; His Origin of the Earth and of Animals; Other Systems
Chapter IX - Parmenides; His Theory of “Unity;” His Eschatology
Chapter X - Leucippus; His Atomic Theory
Chapter XI - Democritus; His Duality of Principles; His Cosmogony
Chapter XII - Xenophanes; His Scepticism; His Notions of God and Nature; Believes in a Flood
Chapter XIII - Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity
Chapter XIV - Hippo; His Duality of Principles; His Psychology
Chapter XV - Socrates; His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato
Chapter XVI - Plato; Threefold Classification of Principles; His Idea of God; Different Opinions Regarding His Theology and Psychology; His Eschatology and System of Metempsychosis; His Ethical Doctrines; Notions on the Free-Will Question
Chapter XVII - Aristotle; Duality of Principles; His Categories; His Psychology; His Ethical Doctrines; Origin of the Epithet “Peripatetic.”
Chapter XVIII - The Stoics; Their Superiority in Logic; Fatalists; Their Doctrine of Conflagrations
Chapter XIX - Epicurus; Adopts the Democritic Atomism; Denial of Divine Providence; The Principle of His Ethical System
Chapter XX - The Academics; Difference of Opinion Among Them
Chapter XXI - The Brachmans; Their Mode of Life; Ideas of Deity; Different Sorts Of; Their Ethical Notions
Chapter XXII - The Druids; Progenitors of Their System
Chapter XXIII - Hesiod; The Nine Muses; The Hesiodic Cosmogony; The Ancient Speculators, Materialists; Derivative Character of the Heresies from Heathen Philosophy
Books II. And III. Are Awanting
Book IV
Chapter I - System of the Astrologers; Sidereal Influence; Configuration of the Stars
Chapter II - Doctrines Concerning AEons; The Chaldean Astrology; Heresy Derivable from It
Chapter III - The Horoscope the Foundation of Astrology; Indiscoverability of the Horoscope; Therefore the Futility of the Chaldean Art
Chapter IV - Impossibility of Fixing the Horoscope; Failure of an Attempt to Do This at the Period of Birth
Chapter V - Another Method of Fixing the Horoscope at Birth; Equally Futile; Use of the Clepsydra in Astrology; The Predictions of the Chaldeans Not Verified
Chapter VI - Zodiacal Influence; Origin of Sidereal Names
Chapter VII - Practical Absurdity of the Chaldaic Art; Development of the Art
Chapter VIII - Prodigies of the Astrologers; System of the Astronomers; Chaldean Doctrine of Circles; Distances of the Heavenly Bodies
Chapter IX - Further Astronomic Calculations
Chapter X - Theory of Stellar Motion and Distance in Accordance with Harmony
Chapter XI - Theory of the Size of the Heavenly Bodies in Accordance with Numerical Harmonies
Chapter XII - Waste of Mental Energy in the Systems of the Astrologers
Chapter XIII - Mention of the Heretic Colarbasus; Alliance Between Heresy and the Pythagorean Philosophy
Chapter XIV - System of the Arithmeticians; Predictions Through Calculations; Numerical Roots; Transference of These Doctrines to Letters; Examples in Particular Names; Different Methods of Calculation; Prescience Possible by These
Chapter XV - Quibbles of the Numerical Theorists; The Art of the Frontispicists (Physiognomy); Connection of This Art with Astrology; Type of Those Born Under Aries
Chapter XVI - Type of Those Born Under Taurus
Chapter XVII - Type of Those Born Under Gemini
Chapter XVIII - Type of Those Born Under Cancer
Chapter XIX - Type of Those Born Under Leo
Chapter XX - Type of Those Born Under Virgo
Chapter XXI - Type of Those Born Under Libra
Chapter XXII - Type of Those Born Under Scorpio
Chapter XXIII - Type of Those Born Under Sagittarius
Chapter XXIV - Type of Those Born Under Capricorn
Chapter XXV - Type of Those Born Under Aquarius
Chapter XXVI - Type of Those Born Under Pisces
Chapter XXVII - Futility of This Theory of Stellar Influence
Chapter XXVIII - System of the Magicians; Incantations of Demons; Secret Magical Rites
Chapter XXIX - Display of Different Eggs
Chapter XXX - Self-Slaughter of Sheep
Chapter XXXI - Method of Poisoning Goats
Chapter XXXII - Imitations of Thunder, and Other Illusions
Chapter XXXIII - The Burning AEsculapius; Tricks with Fire
Chapter XXXIV - The Illusion of the Sealed Letters; Object in Detailing These Juggleries
Chapter XXXV - The Divination by a Cauldron; Illusion of Fiery Demons; Specimen of a Magical Invocation
Chapter XXXVI - Mode of Managing an Apparition
Chapter XXXVII - Illusive Appearance of the Moon
Chapter XXXVIII - Illusive Appearance of the Stars
Chapter XXXIX - Imitation of an Earthquake
Chapter XL - Trick with the Liver
Chapter XLI - Making a Skull Speak
Chapter XLII - The Fraud of the Foregoing Practices; Their Connection with Heresy
Chapter XLIII - Recapitulation of Theologies and Cosmogonies; System of the Persians; Of the Babylonians; The Egyptian Notion of Deity; Their Theology Based on a Theory of Numbers; Their System of Cosmogony
Chapter XLIV - Egyptian Theory of Nature; Their Amulets
Chapter XLV - Use of the Foregoing Discussions
Chapter XLVI - The Astrotheosophists; Aratus Imitated by the Heresiarchs; His System of the Disposition of the Stars
Chapter XLVII - Opinions of the Heretics Borrowed from Aratus
Chapter XLVIII - Invention of the Lyre; Allegorizing the Appearance and Position of the Stars; Origin of the Phoenicians; The Logos Identified by Aratus with the Constellation Canis; Influence of Canis on Fertility and Life Generally
Chapter XLIX - Symbol of the Creature; And of Spirit; And of the Different Orders of Animals
Chapter L - Folly of Astrology
Chapter LI - The Hebdomadarii; System of the Arithmeticians; Pressed into the Service of Heresy; Instances Of, in Simon and Valentinus; The Nature of the Universe Deducible from the Physiology of the Brain
Book V
Chapter I - Recapitulation; Characteristics of Heresy; Origin of the Name Naasseni; The System of the Naasseni
Chapter II - Naasseni Ascribe Their System, Through Mariamne, to James the Lord’s Brother; Really Traceable to the Ancient Mysteries; Their Psychology as Given in the “Gospel According to Thomas;” Assyrian Theory of the Soul; The Systems of the Naasseni and the Assyrians Compared; Support Drawn by the Naasseni from the Phrygian and Egyptian Mysteries; The Mysteries of Isis; These Mysteries Allegorized by the Naasseni
Chapter III - Further Exposition of the Heresy of the Naasseni; Profess to Follow Homer; Acknowledge a Triad of Principles; Their Technical Names of the Triad; Support These on the Authority of Greek Poets; Allegorize Our Saviour’s Miracles; The Mystery of the Samothracians; Why the Lord Chose Twelve Disciples; The Name Corybas, Used by Thracians and Phrygians, Explained; Naasseni Profess to Find Their System in Scripture; Their Interpretation of Jacob’s Vision; Their Idea of the “Perfect Man;” The “Perfect Man” Called “Papa” By the Phrygians; The Naasseni and Phrygians on the Resurrection; The Ecstasis of St. Paul; The Mysteries of Religion as Alluded to by Christ; Interpretation of the Parable of the Sower; Allegory of the Promised Land; Comparison of the System of the Phrygians with the Statements of Scripture; Exposition of the Meaning of the Higher and Lower Eleusinian Mysteries; The Incarnation Discoverable Here According to the Naasseni
Chapter IV - Further Use Made of the System of the Phrygians; Mode of Celebrating the Mysteries; The Mystery of the “Great Mother;” These Mysteries Have a Joint Object of Worship with the Naasseni; The Naasseni Allegorize the Scriptural Account of the Garden of Eden; The Allegory Applied to the Life of Jesus
Chapter V - Explanation of the System of the Naasseni Taken from One of Their Hymns
Chapter VI - The Ophites the Grand Source of Heresy
Chapter VII - The System of the Peratae; Their Tritheism; Explanation of the Incarnation
Chapter VIII - The Peratae Derive Their System from the Astrologers; This Proved by a Statement of the Astrological Theories of the Zodiac; Hence the Terminology of the Peratic Heretics
Chapter IX - System of the Peratae Explained Out of One of Their Own Books
Chapter X - The Peratic Heresy Nominally Different from Astrology, But Really the Same System Allegorized
Chapter XI - Why They Call Themselves Peratae; Their Theory of Generation Supported by an Appeal to Antiquity; Their Interpretation of the Exodus of Israel; Their System of “The Serpent;” Deduced by Them from Scripture; This the Real Import of the Doctrines of the Astrologers
Chapter XII - Compendious Statement of the Doctrines of the Peratae
Chapter XIII - The Peratic Heresy Not Generally Known
Chapter XIV - The System of the Sethians; Their Triad of Infinite Principles; Their Heresy Explained; Their Interpretation of the Incarnation
Chapter XV - The Sethians Support Their Doctrines by an Allegorical Interpretation of Scripture; Their System Really Derived from Natural Philosophers and from the Orphic Rites; Adopt the Homeric Cosmogony
Chapter XVI - The Sethian Theory Concerning “Mixture” And “Composition;” Application of It to Christ; Illustration from the Well of Ampa
Chapter XVII - The Sethian Doctrines to Be Learned from the “Paraphrase of Seth.”
Chapter XVIII - The System of Justinus Antiscriptural and Essentially Pagan
Chapter XIX - The Justinian Heresy Unfolded in the “Book of Baruch.”
Chapter XX - The Cosmogony of Justinus an Allegorical Explanation of Herodotus’ Legend of Hercules
Chapter XXI - Justinus’ Triad of Principles; His Angelography Founded on This Triad; His Explanation of the Birth, Life, and Death of Our Lord
Chapter XXII - Oath Used by the Justinian Heretics; The Book of Baruch; The Repertory of Their System
Chapter XXIII - Subsequent Heresies Deducible from the System of Justinus
Book VI
Chapter I - The Ophites the Progenitors of Subsequent Heresies
Chapter II - Simon Magus
Chapter III - Story of Apsethus the Libyan
Chapter IV - Simon’s Forced Interpretation of Scripture; Plagiarizes from Heraclitus and Aristotle; Simon’s System of Sensible and Intelligible Existences
Chapter V - Simon Appeals to Scripture in Support of His System
Chapter VI - Simon’s System Expounded in the Work, Great Announcement; Follows Empedocles
Chapter VII - Simon’s System of a Threefold Emanation by Pairs
Chapter VIII - Further Progression of This Threefold Emanation; Co-Existence with the Double Triad of a Seventh Existence
Chapter IX - Simon’s Interpretation of the Mosaic Hexaemeron; His Allegorical Representation of Paradise
Chapter X - Simon’s Explanation of the First Two Books of Moses
Chapter XI - Simon’s Explanation of the Three Last Books of the Pentateuch
Chapter XII - Fire a Primal Principle, According to Simon
Chapter XIII - His Doctrine of Emanation Further Expanded
Chapter XIV - Simon Interprets His System by the Mythological Representation of Helen of Troy; Gives an Account of Himself in Connection with the Trojan Heroine; Immorality of His Followers; Simon’s View of Christ; The Simonists’ Apology for Their Vice
Chapter XV - Simon’s Disciples Adopt the Mysteries; Simon Meets St. Peter at Rome; Account of Simon’s Closing Years
Chapter XVI - Heresy of Valentinus; Derived from Plato and Pythagoras
Chapter XVII - Origin of the Greek Philosophy
Chapter XVIII - Pythagoras’ System of Numbers
Chapter XIX - Pythagoras’ Duality of Substances; His “Categories.”
Chapter XX - Pythagoras’ Cosmogony; Similar to that of Empedocles
Chapter XXI - Other Opinions of Pythagoras
Chapter XXII - The “Sayings” Of Pythagoras
Chapter XXIII - Pythagoras’ Astronomic System
Chapter XXIV - Valentinus Convicted of Plagiarisms from the Platonic and Pythagoric Philosophy; The Valentinian Theory of Emanation by Duads
Chapter XXV - The Tenet of the Duad Made the Foundation of Valentinus’ System of the Emanation of AEons
Chapter XXVI - Valentinus’ Explanation of the Existence of Christ and the Spirit
Chapter XXVII - Valentinus’ Explanation of the Existence of Jesus; Power of Jesus Over Humanity
Chapter XXVIII - The Valentinian Origin of the Creation
Chapter XXIX - The Other Valentinian Emanations in Conformity with the Pythagorean System of Numbers
Chapter XXX - Valentinus’ Explanation of the Birth of Jesus; Twofold Doctrine on the Nature of Jesus’ Body; Opinion of the Italians, that Is, Heracleon and Ptolemaeus; Opinion of the Orientals, that Is, Axionicus and Bardesanes
Chapter XXXI - Further Doctrines of Valentinus Respecting the AEons; Reasons for the Incarnation
Chapter XXXII - Valentinus Convicted of Plagiarisms from Plato
Chapter XXXIII - Secundus’ System of AEons; Epiphanes; Ptolemaeus
Chapter XXXIV - System of Marcus; A Mere Impostor; His Wicked Devices Upon the Eucharistic Cup
Chapter XXXV - Further Acts of Jugglery on the Part of Marcus
Chapter XXXVI - The Heretical Practices of the Marcites in Regard of Baptism
Chapter XXXVII - Marcus’ System Explained by Irenaeus; Marcus’ Vision; The Vision of Valentinus Revealing to Him His System
Chapter XXXVIII - Marcus’ System of Letters
Chapter XXXIX - The Quaternion Exhibits “Truth.”
Chapter XL - The Name of Christ Jesus
Chapter XLI - Marcus’ Mystic Interpretation of the Alphabet
Chapter XLII - His System Applied to Explain Our Lord’s Life and Death
Chapter XLIII—Letters, Symbols of the Heavens
Chapter XLIV - Respecting the Generation of the Twenty-Four Letters
Chapter XLV - Why Jesus is Called Alpha
Chapter XLVI - Marcus’ Account of the Birth and Life of Our Lord
Chapter XLVII - The System of Marcus Shown to Be that of Pythagoras, by Quotations from the Writings of Marcus’ Followers
Chapter XLVIII - Their Cosmogony Framed According to These Mystic Doctrines of Letters
Chapter XLIX - The Work of the Demiurge Perishable
Chapter L - Marcus and Colarbasus Refuted by Irenaeus
Book VII
Chapter I - Heresy Compared to (1) the Stormy Ocean, (2) the Rocks of the Sirens; Moral from Ulysses and the Sirens
Chapter II - The System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle
Chapter III - Sketch of Aristotle’s Philosophy
Chapter IV - Aristotle’s General Idea
Chapter V - Nonentity as a Cause
Chapter VI - Substance, According to Aristotle; The Predicates
Chapter VII - Aristotle’s Cosmogony; His “Psychology;” His “Entelecheia;” His Theology; His Ethics; Basilides Follows Aristotle
Chapter VIII - Basilides and Isidorus Allege Apostolic Sanction for Their Systems; They Really Follow Aristotle
Chapter IX - Basilides Adopts the Aristotelian Doctrine of “Nonentity.”
Chapter X - Origin of the World; Basilides’ Account of the “Sonship.”
Chapter XI - The “Great Archon” Of Basilides
Chapter XII - Basilides Adopts the “Entelecheia” Of Aristotle
Chapter XIII - Further Explanation of the “Sonship.”
Chapter XIV - Whence Came the Gospel; The Number of Heavens According to Basilides; Explanation of Christ’s Miraculous Conception
Chapter XV - God’s Dealings with the Creature; Basilides’ Notion of (1) the Inner Man, (2) the Gospel; His Interpretation of the Life and Sufferings of Our Lord
Chapter XVI - The System of Saturnilus
Chapter XVII - Marcion; His Dualism; Derives His System from Empedocles; Sketch of the Doctrine of Empedocles
Chapter XVIII - Source of Marcionism; Empedocles Reasserted as the Suggester of the Heresy
Chapter XIX - The Heresy of Prepon; Follows Empedocles; Marcion Rejects the Generation of the Saviour
Chapter XX - The Heresy of Carpocrates; Wicked Doctrines Concerning Jesus Christ; Practise Magical Arts; Adopt a Metempsychosis
Chapter XXI - The System of Cerinthus Concerning Christ
Chapter XXII - Doctrine of the Ebionaeans
Chapter XXIII - The Heresy of Theodotus
Chapter XXIV - The Melchisedecians; The Nicolaitans
Chapter XXV - The Heresy of Cerdon
Chapter XXVI - The Doctrines of Apelles; Philumene, His Prophetess
Book VIII
Chapter I - Heresies Hitherto Refuted; Opinions of the Docetae
Chapter II - Docetic Notion of the Incarnation; Their Doctrines of AEons; Their Account of Creation; Their Notion of a Fiery God
Chapter III - Christ Undoes the Work of the Demiurge; Docetic Account of the Baptism and Death of Jesus; Why He Lived for Thirty Years on Earth
Chapter IV - Docetic Doctrine Derived from the Greek Sophists
Chapter V - Monoimus; Man the Universe, According to Monoimus; His System of the Monad
Chapter VI - Monoimus’ “Iota;” His Notion of the “Son of Man.”
Chapter VII - Monoimus on the Sabbath; Allegorizes the Rod of Moses; Notion Concerning the Decalogue
Chapter VIII - Monoimus Explains His Opinions in a Letter to Theophrastus; Where to Find God; His System Derived from Pythagoras
Chapter IX - Tatian
Chapter X - Hermogenes; Adopts the Socratic Philosophy; His Notion Concerning the Birth and Body of Our Lord
Chapter XI - The Quartodecimans
Chapter XII - The Montanists; Priscilla and Maximilla Their Prophetesses; Some of Them Noetians
Chapter XIII - The Doctrines of the Encratites
Book IX
Chapter I - An Account of Contemporaneous Heresy
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
Chapter III - Noetianism an Offshoot from the Heraclitic Philosophy
Chapter IV - An Account of the System of Heraclitus
Chapter V - Heraclitus’ Estimate of Hesiod; Paradoxes of Heraclitus; His Eschatology; The Heresy of Noetus of Heraclitean Origin; Noetus’ View of the Birth and Passion of Our Lord
Chapter VI - Conduct of Callistus and Zephyrinus in the Matter of Noetianism; Avowed Opinion of Zephyrinus Concerning Jesus Christ; Disapproval of Hippolytus; As a Contemporaneous Event, Hippolytus Competent to Explain It
Chapter VII - The Personal History of Callistus; His Occupation as a Banker; Fraud on Carpophorus; Callistus Absconds; Attempted Suicide; Condemned to the Treadmill; Re-Condemnation by Order of the Prefect Fuscianus; Banished to Sardinia; Release of Callistus by the Interference Of Marcion; Callistus Arrives at Rome; Pope Victor Removes Callistus to Antium; Return of Callistus on Victor’s Death; Zephyrinus Friendly to Him; Callistus Accused by Sabellius; Hippolytus’ Account of the Opinions of Callistus; The Callistian School at Rome, and Its Practices; This Sect in Existence in Hippolytus’ Time
Chapter VIII - Sect of the Elchasaites; Hippolytus’ Opposition to It
Chapter IX - Elchasai Derived His System from Pythagoras; Practised Incantations
Chapter X - Elchasai’s Mode of Administering Baptism; Formularies
Chapter XI - Precepts of Elchasai
Chapter XII - The Heresy of the Elchasaites a Derivative One
Chapter XIII - The Jewish Sects
Chapter XIV - The Tenets of the Esseni
Chapter XV - The Tenets of the Esseni Continued
Chapter XVI - The Tenets of the Esseni Continued
Chapter XVII - The Tenets of the Esseni Continued
Chapter XVIII - The Tenets of the Esseni Continued
Chapter XIX - The Tenets of the Esseni Continued
Chapter XX - The Tenets of the Esseni Concluded
Chapter XXI - Different Sects of the Esseni
Chapter XXII - Belief of the Esseni in the Resurrection; Their System a Suggestive One
Chapter XXIII - Another Sect of the Esseni: the Pharisees
Chapter XXIV - The Sadducees
Chapter XXV - The Jewish Religion
Chapter XXVI - Conclusion to the Work Explained
Book X
Chapter I - Recapitulation
Chapter II - Summary of the Opinions of Philosophers
Chapter III - Summary of the Opinions of Philosophers Continued
Chapter IV - Summary of the Opinions of Philosophers Continued
Chapter V - The Naasseni
Chapter VI - The Peratae
Chapter VII - The Sethians
Chapter VIII - Simon Magus
Chapter IX - Valentinus
Chapter X - Basilides
Chapter XI - Justinus
Chapter XII - The Docetae
Chapter XIII - Monoimus
Chapter XIV - Tatian
Chapter XV - Marcion and Cerdo
Chapter XVI - Apelles
Chapter XVII - Cerinthus
Chapter XVIII - The Ebionaeans
Chapter XIX - Theodotus
Chapter XX - Melchisedecians
Chapter XXI - The Phrygians or Montanists
Chapter XXII - The Phrygians or Montanists Continued
Chapter XXIII - Noetus and Callistus
Chapter XXIV - Hermogenes
Chapter XXV - The Elchasaites
Chapter XXVI - Jewish Chronology
Chapter XXVII - Jewish Chronology Continued
Chapter XXVIII - The Doctrine of the Truth
Chapter XXIX - The Doctrine of the Truth Continued
Chapter XXX - The Author’s Concluding Address
The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus
Part I - Exegetical
On the Hexaemeron, Or Six Days’ Work
On Genesis
On Numbers. By the Holy Bishop and Martyr Hippolytus, from Balaam’s Blessings
On Kings
On the Psalms. The Argument Prefixed by Hippolytus, Bishop of Rome, to His Exposition of the Psalms
On Psalm II. From the Exposition of the Second Psalm, by the Holy Bishop Hippolytus
On Psalm XXII. Or XXIII. From the Commentary by the Holy Bishop and Martyr Hippolytus, on “The Lord is My Shepherd.”
On Psalm XXIII. Or XXIV. From the Commentary by the Same, on Ps. xxiii
On Psalm CIX. Or CX. From the Commentary by the Same on the Great Song
On Psalm LXXVII. Or LXXVIII
On Proverbs. From the Commentary of St. Hippolytus on Proverbs
On the Song of Songs
On the Prophet Isaiah
On Jeremiah and Ezekiel
On Daniel
Preface by the most holy Hippolytus, (Bishop) of Rome
Scholia on Daniel
Chap. i
Chap. ii
Chap. iii
Chap. vii
Chap. ix
Chap. x. 6
Chap. xii
Chap. ii
Chap. Xxiii
Doubtful Fragments on the Pentateuch
Preface
Section I - Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth. “In the Beginning God Created,” Etc
Sections II., III - And the Lord Said: “And I Will Bring the Waters of the Flood Upon the Earth to Destroy All Flesh,” Etc
Section IV - On Gen. vii. 6
Section V - On Gen. viii. I
Section X - On Deut. xxxiii. II
On the Psalms
I - The Argument of the Exposition of the Psalms by Hippolytus, (Bishop) of Rome
II - On Psalm xxxi. 22. Of the Triumph of the Christian Faith
III - On Psalm lv. 15
IV - On Psalm lviii. 11
V - On Psalm lix. 11. Concerning the Jews
VI - On Psalm lxii. 6
VII - On Psalm lxviii. 18. Of the Enlargement of the Church
VIII - On Psalm lxxxix. 4. Of the Gentiles
IX - On the Words in Psalm xcvi. 11: “Let the Sea Roar (Be Moved), and the Fulness Thereof.”
X - On Psalm cxix. 30–32
XI - On the Words in Psalm cxxvii. 7: “On the Wrath of Mine Enemies.” Etc
XII - On the Words in Psalm cxxxix. 15: “My Substance or (Bones) Was Not Hid from Thee, Which Thou Madest in Secret.”
Part II - Dogmatical and Historical
Treatise on Christ and Antichrist
Against Plato, on the Cause of the Universe
Against the Heresy of One Noetus
Against Beron and Helix
Fragment I
Fragment II
Fragment III
Fragment IV
Fragment V
Fragment VI
Fragment VII
Fragment VIII
The Discourse on the Holy Theophany
Fragments of Discourses or Homilies
Fragments from Other Writings of Hippolytus
Of a certain person Magistrianus
Appendix to the Works of Hippolytus - Containing Dubious and Spurious Pieces
Canons of the Church of Alexandria
CYPRIAN
The Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr
The Epistles of Cyprian
Epistle I - To Donatus
Epistle II - From the Roman Clergy to the Carthaginian Clergy, About the Retirement of the Blessed Cyprian
Epistle III - To the Presbyters and Deacons Abiding at Rome. A.D. 250
Epistle IV - To the Presbyters and Deacons
Epistle V - To the Presbyters and Deacons
Epistle VI - To Rogatianus the Presbyter, and the Other Confessors. A.D. 250
Epistle VII - To the Clergy, Concerning Prayer to God
Epistle VIII - To the Martyrs and Confessors
Epistle IX - To the Clergy, Concerning Certain Presbyters Who Had Rashly Granted Peace to the Lapsed Before the Persecution Had Been Appeased, and Without the Privity of the Bishops
Epistle X - To the Martyrs and Confessors Who Sought that Peace Should Be Granted to the Lapsed
Epistle XI - To the People
Epistle XII - To the Clergy, Concerning the Lapsed and Catechumens, that They Should Not Be Left Without Superintendence
Epistle XIII - To the Clergy, Concerning Those Who are in Haste to Receive Peace. A.D. 250
Epistle XIV - To the Presbyters and Deacons Assembled at Rome
Epistle XV - To Moyses and Maximus, and the Rest of the Confessors
Epistle XVI - The Confessors to Cyprian
Epistle XVII - To the Presbyters and Deacons About the Foregoing and the Following Letters
Epistle XVIII - Caldonius to Cyprian
Epistle XIX - Cyprian Replies to Caldonius
Epistle XX - Celerinus to Lucian
Epistle XXI - Lucian Replies to Celerinus
Epistle XXII - To the Clergy Abiding at Rome, Concerning Many of the Confessors, and Concerning the Forwardness of Lucian and the Modesty of Celerinus the Confessor
Epistle XXIII - To the Clergy, on the Letters Sent to Rome, and About the Appointment of Saturus as Reader, and Optatus as Sub-Deacon. A.D. 250
Epistle XXIV - To Moyses and Maximus and the Rest of the Confessors
Epistle XXV - Moyses, Maximus, Nicostratus, and the Other Confessors Answer the Foregoing Letter. A.D. 250
Epistle XXVI - Cyprian to the Lapsed
Epistle XXVII - To the Presbyters and Deacons
Epistle XXVIII - To the Presbyters and Deacons Abiding at Rome
Epistle XXIX - The Presbyters and Deacons Abiding at Rome, to Cyprian
Epistle XXX - The Roman Clergy to Cyprian
Epistle XXXI - To the Carthaginian Clergy, About the Letters Sent to Rome, and Received Thence
Epistle XXXII - To the Clergy and People, About the Ordination of Aurelius as a Reader
Epistle XXXIII - To the Clergy and People, About the Ordination of Celerinus as Reader
Epistle XXXIV - To the Same, About the Ordination of Numidicus as Presbyter
Epistle XXXV - To the Clergy, Concerning the Care of the Poor and Strangers
Epistle XXXVI - To the Clergy, Bidding Them Show Every Kindness to the Confessors in Prison
Epistle XXXVII - To Caldonius, Herculanus, and Others, About the Excommunication of Felicissimus
Epistle XXXVIII - The Letter of Caldonius, Herculanus, and Others, on the Excommunication of Felicissimus with His People
Epistle XXXIX - To the People, Concerning Five Schismatic Presbyters of the Faction of Felicissimus
Epistle XL - To Cornelius, on His Refusal to Receive Novatian’s Ordination
Epistle XLI - To Cornelius, About Cyprian’s Approval of His Ordination, and Concerning Felicissimus
Epistle XLII - To the Same, on His Having Sent Letters to the Confessors Whom Novatian Had Seduced
Epistle XLIII - To the Roman Confessors, that They Should Return to Unity
Epistle XLIV - To Cornelius, Concerning Polycarp the Adrumetine
Epistle XLV - Cornelius to Cyprian, on the Return of the Confessors to Unity
Epistle XLVI - Cyprian’s Answer to Cornelius, Congratulating Him on the Return of the Confessors from Schism
Epistle XLVII - Cornelius to Cyprian, Concerning the Faction of Novatian with His Party
Epistle XLVIII - Cyprian’s Answer to Cornelius, Concerning the Crimes of Novatus
Epistle XLIX - Maximus and the Other Confessors to Cyprian, About Their Return from Schism
Epistle L - From Cyprian to the Confessors, Congratulating Them on Their Return from Schism
Epistle LI - To Antonianus About Cornelius and Novatian
Epistle LII - To Fortunatus and His Other Colleagues, Concerning Those Who Had Been Overcome by Tortures
Epistle LIII - To Cornelius, Concerning Granting Peace to the Lapsed
Epistle LIV - To Cornelius, Concerning Fortunatus and Felicissimus, or Against the Heretics
Epistle LV - To the People of Thibaris, Exhorting to Martyrdom
Epistle LVI - To Cornelius in Exile, Concerning His Confession
Epistle LVII - To Lucius The Bishop of Rome, Returned from Banishment
Epistle LVIII - To Fidus, on the Baptism of Infants
Epistle LIX - To the Numidian Bishops, on the Redemption of Their Brethren from Captivity Among the Barbarians
Epistle LX - To Euchratius, About an Actor
Epistle LXI - To Pomponius, Concerning Some Virgins
Epistle LXII - Caecilius, on the Sacrament of the Cup of the Lord
Epistle LXIII - To Epictetus and to the Congregation of Assurae, Concerning Fortunatianus, Formerly Their Bishop
Epistle LXIV - To Rogatianus, Concerning the Deacon Who Contended Against the Bishop
Epistle LXV - To the Clergy and People Abiding at Furni, About Victor, Who Had Made the Presbyter Faustinus a Guardian
Epistle LXVI - To Father Stephanus, Concerning Marcianus of Arles, Who Had Joined Himself to Novatian
Epistle LXVII - To the Clergy and People Abiding in Spain, Concerning Basilides and Martial
Epistle LXVIII - To Florentius Pupianus, on Calumniators
Epistle LXIX - To Januarius and Other Numidian Bishops, on Baptizing Heretics
Epistle LXX - To Quintus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics
Epistle LXXI - To Stephen, Concerning a Council
Epistle LXXII - To Jubaianus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics
Epistle LXXIII - To Pompey, Against the Epistle of Stephen About the Baptism of Heretics
Epistle LXXIV - Firmilian, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, to Cyprian, Against the Letter of Stephen. A.D. 256
Epistle LXXV - To Magnus, on Baptizing the Novatians, and Those Who Obtain Grace on a Sick-Bed
Epistle LXXVI - Cyprian to Nemesianus and Other Martyrs in the Mines
Epistle LXXVII - The Reply of Nemesianus, Dativus, Felix, and Victor, to Cyprian
Epistle LXXVIII - The Reply to the Same of Lucius and the Rest of the Martyrs
Epistle LXXIX - The Answer of Felix, Jader, Polianus, and the Rest of the Martyrs, to Cyprian
Epistle LXXX - Cyprian to Sergius, Rogatianus, and the Other Confessors in Prison
Epistle LXXXI - To Successus on the Tidings Brought from Rome, Telling of the Persecution
Epistle LXXXII - To the Clergy and People Concerning His Retirement, a Little Before His Martyrdom
The Treatises of Cyprian
Treatise I - On the Unity of the Church
Treatise II - On the Dress of Virgins
Treatise III - On the Lapsed
Treatise IV - On the Lord’s Prayer
Treatise V - An Address to Demetrianus
Treatise VI - On the Vanity of Idols: Showing that the Idols are Not Gods, and that God is One, and that Through Christ Salvation is Given to Believers
Treatise VII - On the Mortality
Treatise VIII - On Works and Alms
Treatise IX - On the Advantage of Patience
Treatise X - On Jealousy and Envy
Treatise XI - Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus
Preface
Heads of the Following Book
On the Exhortation to Martyrdom
Treatise XII - Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews
First Book
Heads
Testimonies
Second Book
Heads
Testimonies
Third Book
Heads
Testimonies
The Seventh Council of Carthage under Cyprian
Treatises Attributed to Cyprian on Questionable Authority
Treatises Attributed to Cyprian on Questionable Authority
On the Public Shows
On the Glory of Martyrdom
Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity
Exhortation to Repentance - That all sins may be forgiven him who has turned to God with his whole heart
CAIUS
Fragments of Caius
I - From a Dialogue or Disputation Against Proclus
II - Against the Heresy of Artemon
III - Canon Muratorianus
NOVATIAN
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
Chapter I. Argument - Novatian, with the View of Treating of the Trinity, Sets Forth from the Rule of Faith that We Should First of All Believe in God the Father and Lord Omnipotent, the Absolute Founder of All Things. The Works of Creation are Beautifully Described. Man’s Free-Will is Asserted; God’s Mercy in Inflicting Penalty on Man is Shown; The Condition After Death of the Souls of the Righteous and Unrighteous is Determined
Chapter II. Argument - God is Above All Things, Himself Containing All Things, Immense, Eternal, Transcending the Mind of Man; Inexplicable in Discourse, Loftier Than All Sublimity
Chapter III. Argument - That God is the Founder of All Things, Their Lord and Parent, is Proved from the Holy Scriptures
Chapter IV. Argument - Moreover, He is Good, Always the Same, Immutable, One and Only, Infinite; And His Own Name Can Never Be Declared, and He is Incorruptible and Immortal
Chapter V. Argument - If We Regard the Anger, and Indignation, and Hatred of God Described in the Sacred Pages, We Must Remember that They are Not to Be Understood as Bearing the Character of Human Vices
Chapter VI. Argument - And That, Although Scripture Often Changes the Divine Appearance into a Human Form, Yet the Measure of the Divine Majesty is Not Included Within These Lineaments of Our Bodily Nature
Chapter VII. Argument - Moreover, that When God is Called a Spirit, Brightness, and Light, God is Not Sufficiently Expressed by Those Appellations
Chapter VIII. Argument - It is This God, Therefore, that the Church Has Known and Adores; And to Him the Testimony of Things as Well Visible as Invisible is Given Both at All Times and in All Forms, by the Nature Which His Providence Rules and Governs
Chapter IX. Argument - Further, that the Same Rule of Truth Teaches Us to Believe, After the Father, Also in the Son of God, Jesus Christ Our Lord God, Being the Same that Was Promised in the Old Testament, and Manifested in the New
Chapter X. Argument - That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Truly Man, as Opposed to the Fancies of Heretics, Who Deny that He Took Upon Him True Flesh
Chapter XI - And Indeed that Christ Was Not Only Man, But God Also; That Even as He Was the Son of Man, So Also He Was the Son of God
Chapter XII. Argument - That Christ is God, is Proved by the Authority of the Old Testament Scriptures
Chapter XIII. Argument - That the Same Truth is Proved from the Sacred Writings of the New Covenant
Chapter XIV. Argument - The Author Prosecutes the Same Argument
Chapter XV. Argument - Again He Proves from the Gospel that Christ is God
Chapter XVI. Argument - Again from the Gospel He Proves Christ to Be God
Chapter XVII. Argument - It Is, Moreover, Proved by Moses in the Beginning of the Holy Scriptures
Chapter XVIII. Argument - Moreover Also, from the Fact that He Who Was Seen of Abraham is Called God; Which Cannot Be Understood of the Father, Whom No Man Hath Seen at Any Time; But of the Son in the Likeness of an Angel
Chapter XIX. Argument - That God Also Appeared to Jacob as an Angel; Namely, the Son of God
Chapter XX. Argument - It is Proved from the Scriptures that Christ Was Called an Angel. But Yet It is Shown from Other Parts of Holy Scripture that He is God Also
Chapter XXI. Argument - That the Same Divine Majesty is Again Confirmed in Christ by Other Scriptures
Chapter XXII. Argument—That the Same Divine Majesty is in Christ, He Once More Asserts by Other Scriptures
Chapter XXIII. Argument - And This is So Manifest, that Some Heretics Have Thought Him to Be God the Father, Others that He Was Only God Without the Flesh
Chapter XXIV. Argument - That These Have Therefore Erred, by Thinking that There Was No Difference Between the Son of God and the Son of Man; Because They Have Ill Understood the Scripture
Chapter XXV. Argument - And that It Does Not Follow Thence, that Because Christ Died It Must Also Be Received that God Died; For Scripture Sets Forth that Not Only Was Christ God, But Man Also
Chapter XXVI. Argument - Moreover, Against the Sabellians He Proves that the Father is One, the Son Another
Chapter XXVII. Argument - He Skilfully Replies to a Passage Which the Heretics Employed in Defence of Their Own Opinion
Chapter XXVIII. Argument - He Proves Also that the Words Spoken to Philip Make Nothing for the Sabellians
Chapter XXIX. Argument - He Next Teaches Us that the Authority of the Faith Enjoins, After the Father and the Son, to Believe Also on the Holy Spirit, Whose Operations He Enumerates from Scripture
Chapter XXX. Argument - In Fine, Notwithstanding the Said Heretics Have Gathered the Origin of Their Error from Consideration of What is Written: Although We Call Christ God, and the Father God, Still Scripture Does Not Set Forth Two Gods, Any More Than Two Lords or Two Teachers
Chapter XXXI. Argument - But that God, the Son of God, Born of God the Father from Everlasting, Who Was Always in the Father, is the Second Person to the Father, Who Does Nothing Without His Father’s Decree; And that He is Lord, and the Angel of God’s Great Counsel, to Whom the Father’s Godhead is Given by Community of Substance
On the Jewish Meats
Chapter I. Argument - Novatian, a Roman Presbyter, During His Retirement at the Time of the Decian Persecution, Being Urged by Various Letters from His Brethren, Had Written Two Earlier Epistles Against the Jews on the Subjects of Circumcision and the Sabbath, and Now Writes the Present One on the Jewish Meats
Chapter II. Argument - He First of All Asserts that the Law is Spiritual; And Thence, Man’s First Food Was Only the Fruit Trees, and the Use of Flesh Was Added, that the Law that Followed Subsequently Was to Be Understood Spiritually
Chapter III. Argument - And Thus Unclean Animals are Not to Be Reproached, Lest the Reproach Be Thrown Upon Their Author; But When an Irrational Animal is Rejected on Any Account, It is Rather that that Very Thing Should Be Condemned in Man Who is Rational; And Therefore that in Animals the Character, the Doings, and the Wills of Men are Depicted
Chapter IV. Argument - To These Things Also Was Added Another Reason for Prohibiting Many Kinds of Meats to the Jews; To Wit, for the Restraint of the Intemperance of the People, and that They Might Serve the One God
Chapter V. Argument - But There Was a Limit to the Use of These Shadows or Figures; For Afterwards, When the End of the Law, Christ, Came, All Things Were Said by the Apostle to Be Pure to the Pure, and the True and Holy Meat Was a Right Faith and an Unspotted Conscience
Chapter VI. Argument - But, on the Ground that Liberty in Meats is Granted to Us, There is No Permission of Luxury, There is No Taking Away of Continence and Fasting: for These Things Greatly Become the Faithful,—To Wit, that They Should Pray to God, and Give Him Thanks, Not Only by Day, But by Night
Chapter VII. Argument - Moreover, We Must Be Careful that No One Should Think that This Licence May Be Carried to Such an Extent as that He May Approach to Things Offered to Idols
APPENDIX
Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian
A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop - That the Hope of Pardon Should Not Be Denied to the Lapsed
Treatise on Re-baptism
A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer
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