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"Certain adhering partly to these [Ptolemy's measures of the universe] as if having propounded great conclusions, and supposed things worthy of reason, have framed enormous and endless heresies: and one of these is Colarbasus, who attempts to explain religion by measures and numbers."—Hippolytus, "Refutation," bk. iv., ch. iii.