Quotes:Hippolytus

Zirkoff, Boris

Hippolytus. A writer of the early Church, whose personality was enveloped in mystery before the discovery in 1851 of the Philosophumena attributed to his pen. Was born in the second half of the 2nd century, probably in Rome. Presbyter of the church at Rome under Bishop Zephyrinus. He accused the successor of the latter, Calixtus I, of favouring the Christological heresies of the Monarchians, and of subverting discipline; this resulted in a schism, and for some ten years Hippolytus stood as bishop at the head of a separate church. During the persecution under Maximinus the Thracian, Hippolytus and Pontius, who was then bishop, were sent to Sardinia, 235, where both of them died. The writings of Hippolytus exist only in fragments and embrace the sphere of exegesis, apologetics and polemic, chronology and ecclesiastical law. Of the polemical treatises the chief is the Refutation of All Heresies, or Philosophumena, which contains a great deal of material concerning the Gnostic systems, some of it of doubtful authenticity. This work was for a long time attributed to Origen. It has been translated by J. H. Macmahon (Ante-Nicene Christian Libr., Vols. 6 and 9, 1867), and by Francis Legge (1921). See for orig. text Migne, Patrol. Greaca, Vol. X, and Hans Achelis, Hippolytstudien, Leipzig, 1897.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 419