Against Plato, on the Cause of the Universe
Hippolytus
Section 2
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2. Thus far, then, on the subject
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Opening the library…
Against Plato, on the Cause of the Universe
Hippolytus
2. Thus far, then, on the subject
[It would be hard to frame a system of belief concerning the state of the dead more entirely exclusive of purgatory, i e., a place where the souls of the faithful are detained till (by Masses and the like) they are relieved and admitted to glory, before the resurrection. See vol. iii. p. 706.]
μετενσωματῶν, in opposition to the dogma of metempsychosis.
In the Timæus.
The first of the two fragments in the Parallela ends here.
[The text Eccles. xi. 3 may be accommodated to this truth, but seems to have no force as proof.]