THE APOSTOLIC TRADITION OF HIPPOLYTUS
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY BURTON SCOTT EASTON
ARCHON BOOKS
Copyright 1934, Cambridge University Press REPRINTED 1962 BY ARRANGEMENT WITH CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To FRANK GAVIN
PREFATORY NOTE
This book was originally planned as the joint work of my colleague, Dr Frank Gavin, and myself. Other duties compelled him to withdraw from the undertaking, but it none the less owes more than can be told to his expert knowledge and lavishly given advice.
Appreciative thanks are also due to Dr E. R. Hardy for his generous help in checking the translation from the Sahidic.
CONTENTS
Prefatory Note page vii Introduction 1 I. CHURCH ORDERS 1 II. HIPPOLYTUS 16 Translation 33 Notes 63 Indexes 107
THE IMPORTANT BOOKS
Edmund Hauler. _Didascalia Apostolorum Fragmenta Ueronensia Latina. Accedunt Canonum qui Dicuntur Apostolorum et Aegyptiorum Reliquiae._ Leipzig, 1900.
Paul de Lagarde. Aegyptiaca. Göttingen, 1883.
George Horner. The Statutes of the Apostles or Canones Ecclesiastici. London, 1904.
Since 1915 published by the Oxford University Press; the English translations only are included.
R. Hugh Connolly. The So-called Egyptian Church Order and Derived Documents. Cambridge, 1916.
Ernst Jungklaus. Die Gemeinde Hippolyts. Leipzig, 1928. At first included in the Texte und Untersuchungen.
F. X. Funk. Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum. Paderborn, 1905.
James Cooper and Arthur John Maclean. The Testament of Our Lord. Edinburgh, 1902.
Wilhelm Riedel. Die Kirchenrechtsquellen des Patriarchats Alexandrien. Leipzig, 1900.
John Wordsworth. Bishop Sarapion’s Prayer-Book. London, 1899.
Arthur John Maclean. The Ancient Church Orders. Cambridge, 1910.
Paul Wendland. Hippolytus Werke. Dritter Band. Refutatio Omnium Haeresium. Leipzig, 1916.
In the Berlin Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller series. The best text of the Philosophumena.
Francis Legge. [Hippolytus’s] Philosophumena. London, 1921.
The best English translation. Unfortunately Wendland’s critical text is ignored.