Early Church Fathers

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5

Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe · AD 95–325 (English edition 1885–96)

Hippolytus’ Refutation of All Heresies, Cyprian’s letters and treatises, and Novatian on the Trinity.

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Contents

Preface

Hippolytus

Introductory Notice to Hippolytus. [a.d. 170-236.]

The Refutation of All Heresies23 pages

Book I
The Prooemium.—Motives for Undertaking the Refutation; Exposure of the Ancient Mysteries; Plan of the Work; Completeness of the Refutation; Value of the Treatise to Future Ages
Chapter I.—Thales; His Physics and Theology; Founder of Greek Astronomy
Chapter III.—Empedocles; His Twofold Cause; Tenet of Transmigration
Chapter IV.—Heraclitus; His Universal Dogmatism; His Theory of Flux; Other Systems
Chapter V.—Anaximander; His Theory of the Infinite; His Astronomic Opinions; His Physics
Chapter VI.—Anaximenes; His System of "An Infinite Air;" His Views of Astronomy and Natural Phenomena
Chapter VII.—Anaxagoras; His Theory of Mind; Recognises an Efficient Cause; His Cosmogony and Astronomy
Chapter VIII.—Archelaus; System Akin to that of Anaxagoras; His Origin of the Earth and of Animals; Other Systems
Chapter IX.—Parmenides; His Theory of "Unity;" His Eschatology
Chapter X.—Leucippus; His Atomic Theory
Chapter XI.—Democritus; His Duality of Principles; His Cosmogony
Chapter XII.—Xenophanes; His Scepticism; His Notions of God and Nature; Believes in a Flood
Chapter XIII.—Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity
Chapter XIV.—Hippo; His Duality of Principles; His Psychology
Chapter XV.—Socrates; His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato
Chapter XVII.—Aristotle; Duality of Principles; His Categories; His Psychology; His Ethical Doctrines; Origin of the Epithet "Peripatetic."
Chapter XVIII.—The Stoics; Their Superiority in Logic; Fatalists; Their Doctrine of Conflagrations
Chapter XIX.—Epicurus; Adopts the Democritic Atomism; Denial of Divine Providence; The Principle of His Ethical System
Chapter XX.—The Academics; Difference of Opinion Among Them
Chapter XXI.—The Brachmans; Their Mode of Life; Ideas of Deity; Different Sorts Of; Their Ethical Notions
Chapter XXII.—The Druids; Progenitors of Their System
Chapter XXIII.—Hesiod; The Nine Muses; The Hesiodic Cosmogony; The Ancient Speculators, Materialists; Derivative Character of the Heresies from Heathen Philosophy

Book IV49 pages

Summary

Book V19 pages

Book VI48 pages

Book VII26 pages

Book VIII13 pages

Book IX24 pages

Book X30 pages

Elucidations2 pages

The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus

Summary

Appendix to the Works of Hippolytus. Containing Dubious and Spurious Pieces51 pages

I

Cyprian

The Epistles of Cyprian82 pages

I

The Treatises of Cyprian

I

The Seventh Council of Carthage under Cyprian. Concerning the Baptism of Heretics

Concerning the Baptism of Heretics. The Judgment of Eighty-Seven Bishops on the Baptism of Heretics

Summary

Translator's Introduction to Treatises Attributed to Cyprian on Questionable Authority

Treatises Attributed to Cyprian on Questionable Authority4 pages

I

Caius

Introductory Notice to Caius, Presbyter of Rome

Fragments of Caius3 pages

I

Novatian

Introductory Notice to Novatian, a Roman Presbyter

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity26 pages

Summary

On the Jewish Meats2 pages

Appendix

Acts and Records of the Famous Controversy About the Baptism of Heretics2 pages

That the Hope of Pardon Should Not Be Denied to the Lapsed

Summary

A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer2 pages

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.