[91] This is, of course, an allusion to the theories of the “Barbarians” on the Deity set out in Book IV. Cf. Vol. I, p. [104] supra.
[92] It is curious that throughout this chapter he uses “spirit” as the fourth element instead of “air.” So Photius, quoting from the work “On the All,” which is attributed to Hippolytus.
[93] This work is known to us by the list on the chair mentioned in the Introduction, and by a notice by Photius, who seems to have read the work under the name of Josephus. Cf. Salmon in D. C. B., s.n. “Hippolytus Romanus.”
[94] This Λόγος ἐνδιάθετος which Philo distinguishes from the Λόγος προφορικός seems to have been a phrase first adopted into Christian theology by Theophilus of Antioch.
[95] ἅμα.
[96] τὸ κατὰ ἕν.
[97] ὑπουργῇ.
[98] Like most of the ancients, Hippolytus does not know that fish have sex.
[99] Cf. Matt. xxv. 21, 23; Luke xix. 17.
[100] ἐπιδέχεται λύσιν, “receives dissolution.”