Philosophumena or the Refutation of All Heresies, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Philosophumena or the Refutation of All Heresies, Vol. 1

2 Hippolytus, like all Greek writers of his age, must have been entirely ignorant of the Egyptian religion of Pharaonic times, which was then extinct. The only Egyptian Mysteries of which he could have known anything were those of the Alexandrian Triad, Osiris, Isis, and Horus, for which see the translator's Forerunner: and Riva/s of Christianity, Cambridge, 1915, I, c. 2.

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