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Hippolytus

Book VII

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Contents

Contents.

Heresy Compared to (1) the Stormy Ocean, (2) the Rocks of the Sirens; Moral from Ulysses and the Sirens.

The System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle.

Sketch of Aristotle's Philosophy.

Aristotle's General Idea.

Nonentity as a Cause.

Substance, According to Aristotle; The Predicates.

Aristotle's Cosmogony; His “Psychology;” His “Entelecheia;” His Theology; His Ethics; Basilides Follows Aristotle.

Basilides and Isidorus Allege Apostolic Sanction for Their Systems; They Really Follow Aristotle.

Basilides Adopts the Aristotelian Doctrine of “Nonentity.”

Origin of the World; Basilides' Account of the “Sonship.”

The “Great Archon” Of Basilides.

Basilides Adopts the “Entelecheia” Of Aristotle.

Further Explanation of the “Sonship.”

Whence Came the Gospel; The Number of Heavens According to Basilides; Explanation of Christ's Miraculous Conception.

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.

The System of Saturnilus.

Marcion; His Dualism; Derives His System from Empedocles; Sketch of the Doctrine of Empedocles.

Source of Marcionism; Empedocles Reasserted as the Suggester of the Heresy.

The Heresy of Prepon; Follows Empedocles; Marcion Rejects the Generation of the Saviour.

The Heresy of Carpocrates; Wicked Doctrines Concerning Jesus Christ; Practise Magical Arts; Adopt a Metempsychosis.

The System of Cerinthus Concerning Christ.

Doctrine of the Ebionæans.

The Heresy of Theodotus.

The Melchisedecians; The Nicolaitans.

The Heresy of Cerdon.

The Doctrines of Apelles; Philumene, His Prophetess.

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