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| The System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle.
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Chapter II.—The
System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle.
Since, therefore, in the six books preceding this,
we have explained previous (heretical opinions), it now seems proper
not to be silent respecting the (doctrines) of Basilides,804
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What Hippolytus now states in regard of the opinions of
Basilides, is quite new (compare Irenæus, i. 24; Clemens
Alexandrinus, Strom., iii. and vii.; Tertullian,
Præscript., xlvi.; Epiphanius, Hær., xxiv.;
Theodoret, i. 4; Eusebius, Ecclesiast. Hist., iv. 7; and
Philastrius, c. xxxii.). Abbe Cruice refers us to
Basilidis philosophi Gnostici Sententiæ, by Jacobi (Berlin,
1852), and to Das Basilidianische System,
etc., by Ulhorn (Gottingen, 1855). | which are the tenets of Aristotle the
Stagyrite, not (those) of Christ. But even though on a former
occasion the opinions propounded by Aristotle have been elucidated, we
shall not even now scruple to set them down beforehand in a sort of
synopsis, for the purpose of enabling my readers, by means of a nearer
comparison of the two systems, to perceive with facility that the
doctrines advanced by Basilides are (in reality) the clever quibbles of
Aristotle.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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