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Widerlegung aller Häresien (BKV)
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Es trat ein Mann, namens Noetus, auf, seiner Herkunft ein Smyrner. Er führte eine den Lehren des Heraklitus nachgebildete Ketzerei ein. Sein Diener und Schüler ward ein gewisser Epigonus, der nach Rom kam und dort seine gottlose Lehre ausstreute; dessen Schüler ward Kleomenes, unkirchlich in seinem Leben wie in seiner Denkart; er festigte die Lehre zur Zeit, da S. 240 Zephyrinus die Kirche zu leiten vermeinte; dieser, ein ungebildeter, nach schmutzigem Gewinn gehender Mann, ließ sich durch Geldspenden gewinnen, denjenigen, die sich an ihn wandten, zu gestatten, des Kleomenes Schüler zu werden; ja mit der Zeit fand er selbst Geschmack an dieser Lehre und gab sich mit ihr ab; Berater und Helfershelfer war ihm Kallistus, dessen Leben und dessen Irrlehre wir bald darlegen werden. In der Folgezeit blieb des Kleomenes Schule bestehen, befestigte sich und wuchs, weil Zephyrinus und Kallistus ihnen die Stange hielten; wir freilich machten den Anhängern des Kleomenes nie Konzessionen, vielmehr stellten wir uns ihnen gar oft entgegen und widerlegten sie gründlich und zwangen sie, gegen ihren Willen der Wahrheit die Ehre zu geben; eine Zeitlang gaben sie, aus Scham und von der Wahrheit bezwungen, nach, nach kurzer Zeit aber wälzten sie sich wieder in demselben Kot1.
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Vgl. 2 Petr. 2, 22. ↩
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The Refutation of All Heresies
Chapter II.--Source of the Heresy of Noetus; Cleomenes His Disciple; Its Appearance at Rome During the Episcopates of Zephyrinus and Callistus; Noetianism Opposed at Rome by Hippolytus.
There has appeared one, Noetus 1 by name, and by birth a native of Smyrna. This person introduced a heresy from the tenets of Heraclitus. 2 Now a certain man called Epigonus becomes his minister and pupil, and this person during his sojourn at Rome disseminated his godless opinion. But Cleomenes, who had become his disciple, an alien both in way of life and habits from the Church, was wont to corroborate the (Noetian) doctrine. At that time, Zephyrinus imagines that he administers the affairs of the Church 3 --an uninformed and shamefully corrupt man. And he, being persuaded by proffered gain, was accustomed to connive at those who were present for the purpose of becoming disciples of Cleomenes. But (Zephyrinus) himself, being in process of time enticed away, hurried headlong 4 into the same opinions; and he had Callistus as his adviser, and a fellow-champion of these wicked tenets. 5 But the life of this (Callistus), and the heresy invented by him, I shall after a little explain. The school of these heretics during the succession of such bishops, continued to acquire strength and augmentation, from the fact that Zephyrinus and Callistus helped them to prevail. 6 Never at any time, however, have we been guilty of collusion with them; but we have frequently offered them opposition, 7 and have refuted them, and have forced them reluctantly to acknowledge the truth. And they, abashed and constrained by the truth, have confessed their errors for a short period, but after a little, wallow once again in the same mire. 8
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See Fragments of Hippolytus' Works (p. 235 et seq.), edited by Fabricius; Theodoret, Haer. Fab., iii. 3; Epiphanius, Haer., lvii.; and Philastrius, Haeret., liv. Theodoret mentions Epigonus and Cleomenes, and his account is obviously adopted by Hippolytus. ↩
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[See Tatian, vol. ii. p. 66, this series.] ↩
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[See note 2, cap. iii. infra., and Elucidation V.] ↩
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[See Elucidation VI.] ↩
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[See Elucidation VI.] ↩
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[Note the emphasis and repeated statement with which our author dwells on this painful charge.] ↩
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[Elucidation VI.] ↩
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2 Pet. ii. 22. [See book x. cap xxiii., p. 148, infra.] ↩