The Refutation of All Heresies
Authorship uncertain
Book 5 · Chapter 9
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 IX.—System of the Peratæ Explained Out of One of Their Own Books.
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