Hippolytus of Rome, Philosophumena; or the Refutation Of All Heresies (ca. 200 AD)
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Epicurus held an opinion almost the opposite of all others. He supposed that the beginnings of the universals were atoms and a void; that the void was as it were the place of the things that will be; but that the atoms were matter, from which all things are.
— Hippolytus of Rome on Matter
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About Hippolytus of Rome
Hippolytus of Rome (170 – 235) was a 3rd-century Christian theologian.
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