⁷⁸ Or, "the law not of yesterday," ou newsti ton nomon. reads Qeoktistonas rendered above.

¹ [This word is an index of authenticity. See on the "Little Labyrinth," Bunsen, i. p. 243, and Wordsworth, pp. 100, 161, and his references to Routh, Lardner, etc,]

² Hippolytus in what follows is indebted to Sextus Empiricus. Adv. Phys., x.

³ See Karst., Fragm., viii. 45.

⁴ Iliad, xiv. 201.

⁵ Ibid., vii. 99.

⁶ See Karst., Fragm., ix. p. 46.

⁷ Fabricius, in his Commentary on Sextus Empiricus, considers that this is a quotation from the Hymns of Euripides.

⁸ V. 55-57, ed. Karst.

⁹ V, 106, 107, ed. Karst.

¹⁰ [See De Legibus, lib. x., and note xii. p. 119, Tayler Lewis' Plato against the Atheists.]

¹¹ Cruice supplies from Theodoret: "and the second which is good is self-begotten, and the third is generated."

¹² Col. ii. 9.

¹³ afietai eikh: Bernays proposes ofioeidhi.e., being of the form of the serpent.

¹⁴ The commentators refer us to Ps. xxix. 3.

¹⁵ Phil. ii. 6, 7

¹⁶ This section differs considerably from what Hippolytus has already stated concerning Valentinus. [" Sige," vol. i. p. 62, note 5.]

¹⁷ The allusion here is to the shamelessness of the Cynics in regard to sexual intercourse.

¹⁸ The account here given of Cerdon and Marcion does not accurately correspond with that already furnished by Hippolytus of these heretics.

¹⁹ Matt. vii. 18.