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Hippolytus

Part 10 · Introduction

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Author: Hippolytus

X.

Now a person might say that these men

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,

and

those

who

hold

a

different

opinion

,

are

yet

near

neighbours

,

being

involved

in

like

error

.

For

those

men

,

indeed

,

either

profess

that

Christ

came

into

our

life

a

mere

man

,

and

deny

the

talent

of

His

divinity

,

or

else

,

acknowledging

Him

to

be

God

,

they

deny

,

on

the

other

hand

,

His

humanity

,

and

teach

that

His

appearances

to

those

who

saw

Him

as

man

were

illusory

,

inasmuch

as

He

did

not

bear

with

Him

true

manhood

,

but

was

rather

a

kind

of

phantom

manifestation

.

Of

this

class

are

,

for

example

,

Marcion

and

Valentinus

,

and

the

Gnostics

,

who

sunder

the

Word

from

the

flesh

,

and

thus

set

aside

the

one

talent

,

viz

.

,

the

incarnation

.

Notes

1
From an Oration on the Distribution of Talents. In Theodoret, Dial. II. p. 88.