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Refutation of All Heresies
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- Traditions
- Gnosticism
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- volume 1 ↗ gutenberg.org checked September 11, 2026
- volume 2 ↗ gutenberg.org checked September 11, 2026
From Wikipedia
The Refutation of All Heresies, also called the Elenchus or Philosophumena, is a compendious Christian polemical work of the early third century, whose attribution to Hippolytus of Rome or an unknown "Pseudo-Hippolytus" is disputed. It catalogues both pagan beliefs and 33 gnostic Christian systems deemed heretical by the author/s and/or compiler/s, making it a major source of information on contemporary opponents of Christian orthodoxy as understood today.
From the Wikipedia article Refutation of All Heresies, revision 1359696346, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q966546: “work by Hippolytus of Rome”.