# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 33.10

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΑΣΩΝ ΑΙΡΕΣΕΩΝ, Chapter 33. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/33.10

(οὗ) αὐτεξουσίου ὄντος νόμος ὑπὸ θεοῦ ὡρίζετο μάτην· εἰ γὰρ μὴ εἶχεν (ὁ ἄνθρωπ)ος τὸ θέλειν καὶ τὸ μὴ τί καὶ νόμος ὡρίζετο; ὁ νόμος γὰρ ἀλόγῳ ζῴῳ οὐχ ὁρισθήσεται, ἀλλὰ χαλινὸς καὶ μάστιξ, ἀνθρώπῳ δὲ ἐντολὴ καὶ πρόστιμον τοῦ ποιεῖν τὸ προστεταγμένον καὶ μὴ ποιεῖν. τούτῳ νόμος ὡρίσθη διὰ δικαίων ἀνδρῶν ἐπάνωθεν· ἔγγιον ἡμῶν διὰ τοῦ προειρημένου Μωϋσέως, ἀνδρὸς εὐλαβοῦς καὶ θεοφιλοῦς, νόμος ὡρίζετο πλήρης σεμνότητος καὶ δικαιοσύνης.

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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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