Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ For the monad, therefore, as being beneficent, they assert that there are consequently [1] names ascending, and beneficent, and masculine, and carefully observed, terminating in an uneven number; [2] whereas that those terminating in the even number have been supposed to be both descending, and feminine and malicious. For they affirm that nature is made up of contraries, namely bad and good, as right and left, light and darkness, night and day, life and death. ”
