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The Sources of Catholic Dogma (Enchiridion Symbolorum)

  • Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger
  • 1854 AD
  • Encyclopedia
Source. Translated by Roy J. Deferrari from the Thirtieth Edition of Henry Denzinger's Enchiridion Symbolorum. Revised by Karl Rahner, SJ (Freiburg: Herder & Co, 1954)

The Incarnate Word - From St. Hippolytus's Philosophy IX 11, about the year 230

4242a "[Callistus], however, influenced ZEPHYRINUS himself to speak to the people openly: I know one God Christ Jesus, and besides him no other begotten and passible; then indeed [CALLISTUS] said: The Father did not die, but the Son: in such a way as this he kept up the perpetual dispute among the people. When we had learned his [CALLISTUS'S] purposes, we did not yield, refuting and resisting for the sake of truth: driven to madness, especially because all agreed to his pretext-not we, however-he invoked two gods, voluntarily discharging the virus which lay hidden in his internal organs."