Hippolytus Refutation IX, ANF chapter VIII
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Work: Book of Elchasai
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Book of Elchasai — historical Hippolytus and Eusebius quotations
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Chapter VIII.--Sect of the Elchasaites; Hippolytus' Opposition to It. The doctrine of this Callistus having been noised abroad throughout the entire world, a cunning man, and full of desperation, one called Alcibiades, dwelling in Apamea, a city of Syria, examined carefully into this business. And considering himself a more formidable character, and more ingenious in such tricks, than Callistus, he repaired to Rome; and he brought some book, alleging that a certain just man, Elchasai, [1018] had received this from Seræ, a town of Parthia, and that he gave it to one cal…
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- Book of Elchasai — historical Hippolytus and Eusebius quotations
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- Public domain
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- eng
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- eng
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- Historical fragment/testimonia dossier for the lost Book of Elchasai: Hippolytus Refutation IX chaptersVIII–XII and X chapterXXV in the ANF numbering, plus Eusebius Church HistoryVI.38 quoting Origen. Seven separate source chapters; the historical writers’ hostile descriptions and their direct quotations remain distinguished by their source wording. This is not the complete lost Book or a new translation of an extant manuscript. All historical notes, source uncertainty and chapter numbering retained; unrelated JewishSects/otherheresies excluded. These passages already appear within public ANF/NPNF volumes; the dedicated work card now has its own accurately scoped edition.
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Recorded provenance: Historical fragment/testimonia dossier for the lost Book of Elchasai: Hippolytus Refutation IX chaptersVIII–XII and X chapterXXV in the ANF numbering, plus Eusebius Church HistoryVI.38 quoting Origen. Seven separate source chapters; the historical writers’ hostile descriptions and their direct quotations remain distinguished by their source wording. This is not the complete lost Book or a new translation of an extant manuscript. All historical notes, source uncertainty and chapter numbering retained; unrelated JewishSects/otherheresies excluded. These passages already appear within public ANF/NPNF volumes; the dedicated work card now has its own accurately scoped edition.
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