# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 16.5

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, BIBAION Ε΄, Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/16.5

πάντες δὲ οἱ ἀγνοοῦντες, φησίν, εἰσὶν Αἰγύπτιοι. καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι, λέγουσι, τὸ ἐξελθεῖν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, ἐκ τοῦ σώματος — Αἴγυπτον γὰρ εἶναι μικρὰν τὸ σῶμα νομίζουσι — καὶ περᾶσαι τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν Ἐρυθρὰν τουτέστι τῆς φθορᾶς τὸ ὕδωρ, Ὅ ἐστιν ὁ Κρόνος, καὶ γενέσθαι πέραν τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης τουτέστι τῆς γενέσεως, καὶ ἐλθεῖν εἰς τὴν ἔρημον, τοῦτ’ ἐ̓στιν ἔξω γενέσεως γενέσθαι, ὅπου εἰσὶν ὁμοῦ πάντες οἱ θεοὶ τῆς ἀπωλείας καὶ ὁ θεὸς τῆς σωτηρίας.

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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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