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Hippolytus and His Age: Hippolitus and the teachers of the apostolic age
Hippolytus and His Age Hippolitus and the teachers of the apostolic age Author:Christian Karl Josias Bunsen Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Tovtov it To ( I'riti iicparvve M raf re 'AvTiTrapadioiiQ offa avrtf iŁo%tv f'r Tov runs t I',',, t,,ll ':,a:f. i. 29. Succedens autem ei Mar- cion ... more »Ponticus, adatnpliavit doctri- natti, impudorate blasphemans eum qui a Lege et Frophetis annunciatus est Deus, malorum factorem, et bellorum concupiscentem, et incon- stantem quoque sententia, et con- trarium sibi ipsum dicens. Irenaeus treats of Marcion after Cerdo. Our author has anticipated the article upon Marcion, when speaking of the leading heresiarchs of Gnosticism, and evidently mentions Marcion and his disciple Lucianus here, merely as a transition to a junior teacher of the same school of whom Irenscus does not speak at all; perhaps because he was posterior to him. XXIII. Apelles "derived from these" (Cerdo, Marcion, Lucianus). — He advanced further in the same direction, setting up, besides the just Demiurg, the fiery God (vvptvot), who spoke to Moses f, and, as a fourth, the author of evil. All these three were to him angels. Of the Gospels, and St. Paul's Epistles, he picked out what he liked. He attributed the authority of prophecies to the sayings of a clairvoyants woman of his sect, Philumena. This account of Apelles seems in some respects severer than that which Rhodon, Tatian's disciple, and an opponent of the Marcionites, gave of him in a fragment preserved by Eusebius (H. E. v. 13.), and written about twenty-five years before our author's time. According to Rhodon, Apelles acknowledged only one first principle. Hippolytus says that his system on this subject agreed with that of Marcion. The clairvoyants Philumena is also mentioned by Rhodon. The author here concludes his seventh book, in order to pass to the Docette. We have therefore in the seventh book, first, Basilides and Saturnilus as ...« less