# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 17.5

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΔΣΩΝ ΑΙΠΕΣΕΩΝ ΕΑΕΓΧΟΥ ΒΙΒΔΙΟΝ >, Chapter 17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/17.5

ἒν δὲ ὂν τὸ πῦρ τροπὰς στρέφεται δύο. στρέφεται γάρ, φησίν, ἐν τῷ ἀνδρὶ τὸ αἶμα, καὶ θερμὸν καὶ ξανθὸν ὡς πῦρ τυπούμενον, εἰς σπέρμα, ἐν δὲ τῇ γυναικὶ τὸ αὐτὸ τοῦτο αἶμα εὶς γάλα. καὶ γίνεται ἡ τοῦ ἄρρενος τροπὴ γένεσις, ἡ δέ τῆς θηλείας τροπὴ τροφὴ τῷ γεννωμένῳ. αὔτη, φησίν, ἐστὶν ἡ φλογίνη ῥομφαία ἡ στρεφομένη φυλάσσειν τὴν ὁδὸν τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωής«,

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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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