Chapter I: Front Matter

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.