# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 29.14

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, ΒΙΒΛΟΝ Ζ, Chapter 29. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/29.14

τοιοῦτόν τι καὶ κάλλιστον εἶδος τοῦ κόσμου ἠ φιλία ἐκ πολλῶν ἓν ἀπεργάζεται· τὸ δὲ νεῖκος, τὸ τῆς τῶν κατὰ μέρος διακοσμήσεως αἴτιον, ἐξ ἑνὸς ἐκείνου ἀποσπᾷ καὶ ἀπεργάζεται πολλά. καὶ τοῦτό ἐστιν ὃ λέγει περὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ γεννήσεως ὁ ἐμπεδοκλῆς· τῶν καὶ ἐγὼ <νῦν> εἰμι φυγὰς θεόθεν καὶ τουτέστι θεὸν καλῶν τὸ ἒν καὶ τὴν ἐκείνου ἑνότητα, ἐν ᾠ ἦν πρὶν ὑπὸ τοῦ νείκους ἀποσπασθῆναι καὶ γενέσθαι ἐν τοῖς πολλοῖς τούτοις τοῖς κατὰ τὴν τοῦ νείκους διακόσμησιν·

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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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