Hippolytus

“ For Empedocles asserts that the world is managed by wicked Discord, and that the other (world) which (is managed) by Friendship, is cognisable by intellect. And (he asserts) that these are the two different principles of good and evil, and that intermediate between these diverse principles is impartial reason, in accordance with which are united the things that have been separated by Discord, (and which,) in accordance with the influence of Friendship, are accommodated to unity. The impartial reason itself, that which is an auxiliary to Friendship, Empedocles denominates “Musa.” ”

“ The only writer who mentions him is Theodoret (Hær. Fab., i. 25) , in his article on Apelles.↑ Schneidewin gives a restored version of these lines. They are found (at lines 338–341) in Stein’s edition of the Empedoclean Verses.↑ Tertullian combats these heretical notions in his De Carne Christi [vol. viii. p. 521, this series] .↑ Gal. iii. ”