The Refutation of All Heresies
Authorship uncertain
Book 4 · Chapter 5
About this work
A large heresiological work tracing contested Christian teachings to Greek philosophy, mystery traditions, astrology, and magic, then setting them against the author’s account of apostolic truth.
- Author
- Authorship uncertain
- Traditional attribution
- Hippolytus of Rome
- Date
- Early 3rd century, probably c. AD 220s
- Origin
- Rome (traditional)
- Genre
- Heresiology
Traditional attribution to Hippolytus remains disputed, and the author is often called the Refutator.
Chapter V.—Another Method of Fixing the Horoscope at Birth; Equally Futile; Use of the Clepsydra in Astrology; The Predictions of the Chaldeans Not Verified.
In this way, the art practised