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Against Beron and Helix

Hippolytus

Fragment 6

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Author: Hippolytus

Fragment VI.

Among Christians it is settled as the doctrine

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of

piety

,

that

,

according

to

nature

itself

,

and

to

the

activity

and

to

whatever

else

pertains

thereunto

,

God

is

equal

and

the

same

with

Himself

,

having

nothing

that

is

His

unequal

to

Himself

at

all

and

heterogeneous

.

If

,

then

,

according

to

Beron

,

the

flesh

that

He

assumed

to

Himself

became

possessed

of

the

like

natural

energy

with

them

,

it

is

evident

that

it

also

became

possessed

of

the

like

nature

with

Him

in

all

wherein

that

nature

consists

,

—

to

wit

,

non

-

origination

,

non

-

generation

,

infinitude

,

eternity

,

incomprehensibility

,

and

whatever

else

in

the

way

of

the

transcendent

the

theological

mind

discerns

in

deity

;

and

thus

they

both

underwent

conversion

,

neither

the

one

nor

the

other

preserving

any

more

the

substantial

relation

of

its

own

proper

nature

.

For

he

who

recognises

an

identical

operation

in

things

of

unlike

nature

,

introduces

at

the

same

time

a

fusion

of

natures

and

a

separation

of

persons

,

their

natural

existence

being

made

entirely

undistinguishable

by

the

transference

of

properties

.

Notes

1
ἵσον ἑαυτῷ καὶ ταυτόν.
2
ἀκατάλληλον.
3
τῆς ἰδίας φύσεως οὐσιώδη λόγον.
4
ταυτουργίαν.
5
διαίρεσιν προσωπικήν.
6
ὑπάρξεως.
7
ἱδιωμάτων.