Hippolytus of Rome Quotes

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If a man is an actor or pantomimist, he must be rejected.

Hippolytus of Rome
But since there is another and more profound art among the all-wise investigators of the Greeks, whose disciples and heretics profess themselves because of the use they make of their opinions for their own designs, as we shall show before long we shall not keep silence about this. This is the divination of rather madness by meteoposcopy.

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No fable made famous by the Greeks is to be neglected.

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Anaxagoras... said that the beginning of the universe was mind and matter, mind being the creator and matter that which came into being.

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Last if all in the days of Herod the king, Baruch is again sent below by Elohim and coming to Nazareth finds Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary, a boy of twelve years old, feeding sheep, and taught Him all things from the beginnings which came about from Edem and Elohim and the things which shall be hereafter, and he said: "All the prophets before thee were led stray. Stive, therefore, O Jesus, Son of Man, that thou be not led astray, but preach this word unto men. And proclaim to them the things touching the Father and the Good One, and go on high to the Good One and sit there with Elohim the Father of us all." And Jesus hearkened to the angel, saying: "Lord, I will do all [these things]," and He preached.

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And into all this infinity which is under heaven, there was scattered and distributed among the different animals, together with the light, the fragrance of the spirit from on high.

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A soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded, and to refuse to take an oath; if he is unwilling to comply, he must be rejected.

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Epicurus made a theory about wise men, saying that the end of all wisdom is pleasure.

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"Whoso seeks me shall find me in children from seven years upwards. For there in the fourteenth year I who am hidden am made manifest." This, however, is the saying not of Christ but of Hippocrates who says: "At seven years old, a boy is half a father."

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It is said that Thales the Milesian, one of the seven sages, was the first to take in hand natural philosophy. He said that the beginning and end of the universe was water; for that from its solidification and redissolution all things have been constructed and that all are borne about by it.

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But Epicurus held an opinion almost the opposite of all others. He supposed that the beginnings of the universals were atoms and a void; that the void was as it were the place of the things that will be; but that the atoms were matter, from which all things are.

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Inquiry shall likewise be made about the professions and trades of those who are brought to be admitted to the faith. If a man is a pander, he must desist or be rejected.

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But Heraclitus of Ephesus, a physicist, bewailed all things, accusing the ignorance of all life and of all men, and pitying the life of mortals. For he claimed that he knew all things and other men nothing.

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There is also indeed a certain other (heresy), the Peratic, the blasphemy of whose followers against Christ has for many years evaded (us). Whose secret mysteries it now seems fitting for us to bring into the open.

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If a catechumen or a believer seeks to become a soldier, they must be rejected, for they have despised God.

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A gladiator or a trainer of gladiators, or a huntsman, or anyone connected with these shows... must desist or be rejected.

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