Hegesippus, Fragments

So they come Judae nepotes proxime ante memorati and they lead every church as martyrs, and from the family of the Lord. And when there was a deep peace in every church, they remained until Trajan Caesar. until the aforementioned Symeon son of Clopas, the uncle of the Lord, being falsely accused by the heresies, was likewise himself accused for the same reason before Atticus the consular. And being tortured for many days, he bore 215 witness; so that all marveled, even the consular, how being one hundred and twenty years old, he endured; and he was ordered to be crucified. Concerning these things, the same man Hegesippus, narrating the things concerning those mentioned, adds that until those times the church remained a pure and uncorrupted virgin, those who attempted to corrupt the sound rule of the saving proclamation, if any such existed, still lurking somewhere in obscure darkness.

Attulit haec Eusebius cap. 32. ejusd. lib. Ex incerto libro ejusdem

Operis. And after James the Just had borne witness as did also the Lord for the same

reason, again Symeon son of Clopas, his uncle, is appointed bishop; whom all put forward as being the Lord's cousin, a second one. For this reason they called the church a virgin; for it had not yet been corrupted by vain teachings. But Thebuthis, because he was not made bishop, began to corrupt it. He himself was also from the seven heresies among the people; from whom 216 Simon, whence the Simonians; and Cleobius, whence the Cleobians; and Dositheus, whence the Dositheans; and Gorthaeus, whence the Gortheonians; and Masbotheus, whence the Masbothaeans; from these the Menandrianists, and the Marcionists, for. Μαρκανισταὶ, vid. notam and the Carpocratians, and the Valentinians, and the Basilidians, and the Saturnilians; each individually and differently introduced their own opinion. from these came false Christs, false prophets, false apostles; who divided the unity of the church with corrupting words against God and against his Christ.

Haec affert Eusebius lib. iv. Hist. c. 22.Ex incerto libro ejusdem

Operis. One can certainly hear inquit Eusebius, ubi supra, proxime antethe

sayingjam secuturam after some things said by him concerning the epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Hegesippus adding these things: And the church of the Corinthians remained ‡c. Eusebius quoque lib. iii. Hist. c. 16. And that indeed during the time of the aforementioned sc. Clement the sedition of the Corinthians had been stirred, Hegesippus is a credible witness. 217 Ex incerto libro ejusdem Operis. And the church of the Corinthians remained in the right doctrine, until Primus was bishop in Corinth; with whom I associated when sailing to Rome, and I spent a considerable number of days with the Corinthians; in which we were refreshed together in the right doctrine. And when I was in Rome, I made a list of succession down to Anicetus, whose deacon was Eleutherus. And from Anicetus, Soter succeeded, after whom Eleutherus. And in every succession and in every city it is so, as the law and the prophets and the Lord proclaim. The aec affert Eusebius lib. iv. Hist. cap. 22.Ex incerto libro ejusdem Operis. In these matters Hegesippus was well-known, whose many sayings we have already used before; as quoting from his tradition some of the things concerning the apostles. In five books, therefore, this man, the unerring tradition of the

Ἔρχονται οὖν Judae nepotes proxime ante memorati καὶ προηγοῦνται πάσης ἐκκλησίας ὡς μάρτυρες, καὶ ἀπὸ γένους τοῦ Κυρίου. καὶ γενομένης εἰρήνης βαθείας ἐν πάσῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ, μένουσι μέχρι Τραϊανοῦ Καίσαρος. μέχρις οὗ ὁ ἐκ θείου τοῦ Κυρίου ὁ προειρημένος Συμεὼν υἱὸς Κλωπᾶ, συκοφαντηθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν αἱρέσεων, ὡσαύτως κατηγορήθη καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τῷ αὐτῷ λόγῳ ἐπὶ Ἀττικοῦ τοῦ ὑπατικοῦ. καὶ ἐπὶ πολλὰς ἡμέρας αἰκιζόμενος, ἐμαρ 215 τύρησεν· ὡς πάντας ὑπερθαυμάζειν, καὶ τὸν ὑπατικὸν, πῶς ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι τυγχάνων ἐτῶν, ὑπέμεινε· καὶ ἐκελεύσθη σταυρωθῆναι. ἐπὶ τούτοις ὁ αὐτὸς ἀνὴρ Hegesippus διηγούμενος τὰ κατὰ τοὺς δηλουμένους, ἐπιλέγει ὡς ἄρα μέχρι τῶν τότε χρόνων παρθένος καθαρὰ καὶ ἀδιάφθορος ἔμεινεν ἡ ἐκκλησία, ἐν ἀδήλῳ που σκότει φωλευόντων εἰσέτι τότε, τῶν, εἰ καί τινες ὑπῆρχον, παραφθείρειν ἐπιχειρούντων τὸν ὑγιῆ κανόνα τοῦ σωτηρίου κηρύγματος.

Attulit haec Eusebius cap. 32. ejusd. lib. Ex incerto libro ejusdem

Operis. Καὶ μετὰ τὸ μαρτυρῆσαι Ἰάκωβον τὸν δίκαιον ὡς καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἐπὶ τῷ αὐτῷ

λόγῳ, πάλιν ὁ ἐκ θείου αὐτοῦ Συμεὼν ὁ τοῦ Κλωπᾶ καθίσταται ἐπίσκοπος· ὃν προέθεντο πάντες ὄντα ἀνεψιὸν τοῦ Κυρίου δεύτερον. διατοῦτο ἐκάλουν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν παρθένον· οὔπω γὰρ ἔφθαρτο ἀκοαῖς ματαίαις. ἄρχεται δ' ὁ Θέβουθις διὰ τὸ μὴ γενέσθαι αὐτὸν ἐπίσκοπον, ὑποφθείρειν. Ἀπὸ τῶν ἑπτὰ αἱρέσεων καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν ἐν τῷ λαῷ· ἀφ' ὧν 216 Σίμων, ὅθεν οἱ Σιμωνιανοί· καὶ Κλεόβιος, ὅθεν Κλεοβιηνοί· καὶ ∆οσίθεος, ὅθεν ∆οσιθιανοί· καὶ Γορθαῖος, ὅθεν Γορθηωνοί· καὶ Μασβώθεος, ὅθεν Μασβωθαίοι· ἀπὸ τούτων Μενανδριανισταὶ, καὶ Μαρκιωνισταὶ, for. Μαρκανισταὶ, vid. notam καὶ Καρποκρατιανοί· καὶ Οὐαλεντινιανοὶ, καὶ Βασιλειδιανοὶ, καὶ Σατορνιλιανοί· ἕκαστος ἰδίως καὶ ἑτέρως ἰδίαν δόξαν παρεισηγάγησαν. ἀπὸ τούτων ψευδόχριστοι· ψευδοπροφῆται· ψευδαπόστολοι· οἵ τινες ἐμέρισαν τὴν ἕνωσιν τῆς ἐκκλησίας φθοριμαίοις λόγοις κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ.

Haec affert Eusebius lib. iv. Hist. c. 22.Ex incerto libro ejusdem

Operis. Ἀκοῦσαι γέτοι πάρεστι inquit Eusebius, ubi supra, proxime anteτὴν

ῥῆσινjam secuturam μετά τινα περὶ τῆς Κλήμεντος πρὸς Κορινθίους ἐπιστολῆς αὐτῷ εἰρημένα, ἐπιλέγοντος sc. Hegesippi ταῦτα· Καὶ ἐπέμενεν ἡ ἐκκλησία ἡ Κορινθίων ‡c. Eusebius quoque lib. iii. Hist. c. 16. Καὶ ὅτι γε κατὰ τὸν δηλούμενον sc. Clementem τὰ τῆς Κορινθίων κεκίνητο στάσεως, ἀξιόχρεως μάρτυς ὁ Ἡγήσιππος. 217 Ex incerto libro ejusdem Operis. Καὶ ἐπέμενεν ἡ ἐκκλησία ἡ Κορινθίων ἐν τῷ ὀρθῷ λόγῳ, μέχρι Πρίμου ἐπισκοπεύοντος ἐν Κορίνθῳ· οἷς συνέμιξα πλέων εἰς Ῥώμην, καὶ συνδιέτριψα τοῖς Κορινθίοις ἡμέρας ἱκανάς· ἐν αἷς συνανεπάημεν τῷ ὀρθῷ λόγῳ. γενόμενος δὲ ἐν Ῥώμῃ, διαδοχὴν ἐποιησάμην μέχρις Ἀνικήτου, οὗ διάκονος ἦν Ἐλεύθερος. καὶ παρὰ Ἀνικήτου διαδέχεται Σωτὴρ, μεθ' ὃν Ἐλεύθερος. ἐν ἑκάστῃ δὲ διαδοχῇ καὶ ἐν ἑκάστῃ πόλει οὕτως ἔχει, ὡς ὁ νόμος κηρύττει καὶ οἱ προφῆται καὶ ὁ Κύριος. Η aec affert Eusebius lib. iv. Hist. cap. 22.Ex incerto libro ejusdem Operis. Ἐν τούτοις ἐγνωρίζετο Ἡγήσιππος, οὖ πλείσταις ἤδη πρότερον κεχρήμεθα φωναῖς· ὡς ἂν ἐκ τῆς αὐτοῦ παραδόσεως τινὰ τῶν κατὰ τοὺς ἀποστόλους παρατιθέμενοι. ἐν πέντε δὴ οὖν συγγράμμασιν οὖτος, τὴν ἀπλανῆ παράδοσιν τοῦ