[20] ὀλέθριον, “destructive.”
[21] χρημοσύνη. Cr., Inopia, Macm., “Craving.”
[22] διακόσμησις. The making of a cosmos out of chaos or the Creation.
[23] So Clem. Alex., Strom., V, 1, makes Heraclitus predict the destruction of the world by fire. The same theory is attributed to the Stoics.
[24] It has not been thought well to delay the reader by attempting to puzzle out the meaning of Heraclitus whom the ancients themselves did not profess to understand. So far as can be seen the only likeness between his sayings and the teaching of Noetus and his successors was due to the love of paradox shown by both. The parallel between them that Hippolytus tries to draw is mainly forced upon him by his own theory that all heresy is derived from Greek philosophy.
[25] A pun on νοητός, the adjective, and Noetus, the proper name.
[26] Another pun between ἁιρουμένοι and αἵρεσις.
[27] The words in brackets supplied from the Summary in Book X.
[28] Ἀχώρητος, “that cannot be confined (in space),” or what we mean when we say that He is infinite.
[29] ἀκράτητος, “that cannot be dominated.” One would have expected the word ἀνίκητος; but as this was one of the honorific titles of the Emperor, it was doubtless altered for prudential reasons.