# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 8.28

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, BIBAION Ε΄, Chapter 8. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/8.28

ὃ δεῖ ποιήσαντας, οὐχὶ ἀκούσαντας μόνον, εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν εἰσελθεῖν τῶν οὐρανῶν. καὶ Πάλιν, φησίν, εἴρηκεν· »οἱ τελῶναι καὶ οἱ πόρναι προάγουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν«. τελῶναι γάρ, φησίν, εἰσὶν οἱ τὰ τέλη τῶν ὅλων λαμβάνοντες, ἡμεῖς δέ, φησίν, ἐσμὲν οἱ τελῶναι, »εἰς οὓς τὰ τέλη τῶν αἰώνων κατήντηκε«. τέλη γάρ, φησίν, εἰσὶ τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀχαρακτηρίστου εἰς τὸν κόσμον κατεσπαρμένα σπέρματα, δι᾿ ὧν ὁ πᾶς συντελεῖται κόσμος· διὰ γὰρ αὐτῶν καὶ ἤρξατο γενέσθαι.

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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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