# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 16.1

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, <ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΑΣΩΝ ΑΙΠΕΣΕΩΝ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΟΣ. >, Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/16.1

Ἲππων δὲ <ὁ> Ῥηγῖνος ἀρχὰς ἔφη ψυχ·ρὸν τὸ ὒδωρ καὶ θερμὸν τὸ πῦρ. γενόμενον δὲ τὸ πῦρ ὑπὸ ὒδατος κατανικῆσαι τὴν τοῦ γεννήσαντος δύναμιν συστῆσαί τε τὸν κόσμον. τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν ποτὲ μὲν ἐγκέφαλον λέγει, ποτὲ δὲ ὕδωρ· καὶ γὰρ τὸ σπέρμα εἶναι τὸ φαινόμενον ἡμῖν ἐξ ὑγροῦ, ἐξ οὗ φησι ψυχὴν γίνεσθαι.

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Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, ed. Paul Wendland. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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