Hippolytus

“ For he stated that, principally for the purpose of searching after this (woman) , he had arrived (in Tyre) , in order that he might rescue her from bondage. And after having thus redeemed her, he was in the habit of conducting her about with himself, alleging that this (girl) was the lost sheep, and affirming himself to be the Power above all things. ”

“ For (they would have us believe) that they are not overcome by the supposed vice, for that they have been redeemed. “And (Jesus) , by having redeemed Helen in this way,” (Simon says,) “has afforded salvation to men through his own peculiar intelligence. For inasmuch as the angels, by reason of their lust for pre-eminence, improperly managed the world, (Jesus Christ) being transformed, and being assimilated to the rulers and powers and angels, came for the restoration (of things) . And so (it was that Jesus) appeared as man, when in reality he was not a man. ”

“ For that there is no reason for punishment, even though one shall act wickedly; for such a one is not wicked by nature, but by enactment. “For the angels who created the world made,” he says, “whatever enactments they pleased,” thinking by such (legislative) words to enslave those who listened to them. But, again, they speak of a dissolution [7] of the world, for the redemption of his own particular adherents.
Footnotes ↑ Homer, for instance (See Epiphanius, Hæres., xxi. 3) .↑ μιαρὸς, Bunsen’s emendation for ψυχρὸς, the reading in Miller and Schneidewin. Some read ψυδρὸς, i.e., lying ”