Read the tractate of Hippolytus,[610] the pupil of Irenaeus,
entitled _Against the Thirty-two Heresies_. It begins with the
Dositheans,[611] and goes down to the heresies of Noëtus[612] and the
Noëtians, which he says were refuted by Irenaeus in his lectures, of
which the present work is a synopsis. The style is clear, somewhat
severe and free from redundancies, although it exhibits no tendency
to atticism. Some of the statements are inaccurate, for instance,
that the epistle to the Hebrews is not the work of the apostle Paul.
Hippolytus is said to have addressed the people after the manner
of Origen, with whom he was very intimate and whose writings he so
much admired that he urged him to write a commentary on the Bible,
for which purpose he supplied, at his own expense, seven shorthand
writers and the same number of calligraphists. Having rendered this
service, he persistently demanded the work, whence Origen, in one
of his letters, calls him a “hustler.” He is said to have written a
large number of other works.