Hippolytus: 5 books

The apocalyptic text On the End of the World was penned by an unknown author, likely around the 4th century A.D. Pseudo-Hippolytus, unknown, is not to be confused with Hippolytus of Rome, an early Church father. The name Pseudo-Hippolytus was given to this unknown author to distinguish him from other works by unknown authors which are commonly but incorrectly ascribed to Hippolytus of Rome.

Now These things we are under The necessity of setting forth at length, in order to disprove The supposition of Others. For some choose to maintain that paradise is in heaven, and forms no part of The system of creation. But since we see with our eyes The rivers that go forth from it which are open,...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This volume contains his most important polemic against...

Hippolytus of Rome (170 235) was the most important 3rd-century theologian in the Christian Church in Rome, where he was probably born. Photios I of Constantinople describes him in his Bibliotheca (cod. 121) as a disciple of Irenaeus, who was said to be a disciple of Polycarp, and from the context of...

We must not overlook any figment devised by those denominated philosophers among The Greeks. For even Their incoherent tenets must be received as worthy of credit, on account of The excessive madness of The heretics; who, from The observance of silence, and from concealing Their own ineffable mysteries,...