# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 26.28

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, BIBAION Ε΄, Chapter 26. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/26.28

τῶν ἐθνῶν γὰρ εἶναι ταῦτα τὰ ὀνόματα, ἅ μετωνόμασται, φασίν, ἀπὸ τῆς ἐνεργείας τῶν μητρικῶν ἀrγέλων. ὡς <δ> ἐδόκει κατηγωνίσθαι, προσπλἐκεται ἡ ᾿Ομφάλη, ἥτις ἐστὶ Βάβυν ἢ Ἀφροδίτη, καὶ ὑποσύρει τὸν Ἡρακλέα καὶ ἀποδιδύσκει τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ, τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ καρούχα, ὃς ένετείλατο ᾿Ελωείμ, καὶ μετενδιδύσκει τὴν τὴν αὐτῆς στολήν, τουτέστι τὴν δύναμιν τῆς ᾿Εδὲμ τῆς κάτω δυνάμεως, καὶ οὕτως ἀτελὴς ἐγένετο τοῦ Ἡρακλέους ἡ προφητεία καὶ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ.

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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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