Primary source · Latin
Against Hermogenes
Tertullian · c. AD 205
What this text is
Tertullian's demolition of the Carthaginian painter-theologian who taught that God created from eternal matter — our sole substantial window on Hermogenes and his doctrine.
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Public-domain translations
ANF translation (1885, public domain)
He is a turbulent man, who takes loquacity for eloquence, and supposes impudence to be firmness... he paints illicitly, he marries incessantly, he preaches the law of God while defending the practice of the world. (Adv. Herm. 1)
Manuscript witnesses
Corpus Cluniacense tradition
medieval copiesTransmitted in the Cluny corpus of Tertullian's polemical works.
Patrologia Latina, vol. 2 (Migne)
1844Standard pre-critical text.
Provenance
Carthage
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Tertullian: The Treatise against Hermogenes (ACW 24)J. H. Waszink, 1956The standard annotated translation.
- Tertullian, First Theologian of the WestEric Osborn, 1997Standard modern study of the argument.