11. And thus there appeared another beside Himself. But when I say another,58    Justin Martyr also says that the Son is ἕτερόν τι, something other, from the Father; and Tertullian affirms, Filium et Patrem esse aluid ab alio, with the same intent as Hippolytus here, viz., to express the distinction of persons.  [See vol. i. pp. 170, 216, 263, and vol. iii. p. 604.] I do not mean that there are two Gods, but that it is only as light of light, or as water from a fountain, or as a ray from the sun. For there is but one power, which is from the All;59    ἐκ τοῦ παντός. and the Father is the All, from whom cometh this Power, the Word. And this is the mind60    Or reason. which came forth into the world, and was manifested as the Son61    παῖς. of God. All things, then, are by Him, and He alone is of the Father. Who then adduces a multitude of gods brought in, time after time? For all are shut up, however unwillingly, to admit this fact, that the All runs up into one.  If, then, all things run up into one, even according to Valentinus, and Marcion, and Cerinthus, and all their fooleries, they are also reduced, however unwillingly, to this position, that they must acknowledge that the One is the cause of all things. Thus, then, these too, though they wish it not, fall in with the truth, and admit that one God made all things according to His good pleasure. And He gave the law and the prophets; and in giving them, He made them speak by the Holy Ghost, in order that, being gifted with the inspiration of the Father’s power, they might declare the Father’s counsel and will.

[11] καὶ οὕτως αὐτῷ παρίστατο ἕτερος. ἕτερον δὲ λέγων οὐ δύο θεοὺς λέγω, ἀλλ' ὡς φῶς ἐκ φωτὸς ἢ ὡς ὕδωρ ἐκ πηγῆς ἢ ὡς ἀκτῖνα ἀπὸ ἡλίου. δύναμις γὰρ μία ἡ ἐκ τοῦ παντός: τὸ δὲ πᾶν Πατήρ, ἐξ οὗ δύναμις Λόγος. οὗτος δὲ νοῦς, ὃς προβὰς ἐν κόσμῳ ἐδείκνυτο παῖς Θεοῦ. πάντα τοίνυν δι' αὐτοῦ: αὐτὸς δὲ μόνος ἐκ Πατρός. τίς τοίνυν ἀποφαίνεται πληθὺν θεῶν παραβαλλομένην κατὰ καιρούς; καὶ γὰρ πάντες ἀπεκλείσθησαν εἰς τοῦτο ἄκοντες εἰπεῖν ὅτι τὸ πᾶν εἰς ἕνα ἀνατρέχει. εἰ οὖν τὰ πάντα εἰς ἕνα ἀνατρέχει_καὶ κατὰ Οὐαλεντῖνον καὶ κατὰ Μαρκίωνα Κήρινθόν τε καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν ἐκείνων φλυαρίαν_καὶ ἄκοντες εἰς τοῦτο περιέπεσαν ἵνα τὸν ἕνα ὁμολογήσωσιν αἴτιον τῶν πάντων, ἄρα συντρέχουσιν καὶ αὐτοὶ μὴ θέλοντες τῇ ἀληθείᾳ ἕνα Θεὸν λέγειν ποιήσαντα ὡς ἠθέλησεν. οὗτος δὲ ἔδωκεν νόμον καὶ προφήτας: καὶ δοὺς διὰ πνεύματος ἁγίου ἠνάγκασεν τούτους φθέγξασθαι, ὅπως τῆς πατρῴας δυνάμεως ἀπόπνοιαν λαβόντες τὴν βουλὴν καὶ τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Πατρὸς καταγγείλωσιν.