# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 8

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, <ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΑΣΩΝ ΑΙΠΕΣΕΩΝ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΟΣ. >, Chapter praef. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/8

ἵν' οὖν, καθὼς φθάσαντες εἴπομεν, ἀθέους αὐτοὺς ἐπιδείξωμεν καὶ κατὰ γνώμην καὶ κατὰ τρόπον καὶ κατὰ ἔργον, ὂθεν τε τὰ ἐπιχειρήματα αὐτοῖς γεγένηται, καὶ ὅτι μηθὲν ἐξ ἁγίων γραφῶν λαβόντες ταῦτα ἐπεχείρησαν ἤ τινος ἁγίου διαδοχὴν φυλάξαντες ἐπὶ ταῦτα ὢρμησαν, ἀλλ’ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς τὰ δοξαζόμενα ἀρχὴν μὲν ἐκ τῆς Ἑλλήνων σοφίας λαβόντα, ἐκ δογμάτων φιλοσοφουμένων καὶ μυστηρίων ἐπικεχειρημένων καὶ ἀστρολόγων ῥεμβομένων, δοκεῖ οὖν πρότερον ἐκθεμένους τά δόξαντα τοῖς τῶν Ἑλλήνων φιλοσόφοις ἐπιδεῖξαι τοῖς ἐντυγχάνουσιν ὄντα τούτων παλαιότερα καὶ πρὸς τὸ θεῖον σεμνότερα·

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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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