Hippolytus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus… (1885)
“ A lengthened conflict, then, having been maintained concerning all heresies by us who, at all events, have not left any unrefuted, the greatest struggle now remains behind, viz., to furnish an account and refutation of those heresies that have sprung up in our own day, by which certain ignorant and presumptuous men have attempted to scatter abroad the Church, and have introduced the greatest confusion [2] among all the faithful throughout the entire world. ”
