The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus 30Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth. “In the Beginning God Created,” Etc.

Hippolytus · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume V: The Fathers of the Third Century by Philip Schaff

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Section I. Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth. "In the Beginning God Created," Etc.

An exposition of that which God said.

And the blessed prophet, indeed, the great Moses, wrote this book, and designated and marked it with the title, The Book of Being, i.e., "of created beings," etc.