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Refutation of All Heresies 1.14.2

Hippolytus of Rome · Refutation of All Heresies · ca. 222–235 · Rome · Read in context

Authorship disputed: The work names no author. Book 1 was long printed among Origen's works as the Philosophumena; after books 4–10 were found in a manuscript from Mount Athos (published 1851), it was assigned to Hippolytus, the usual view today, though some scholars ascribe it to another Roman writer of the same circle. Books 2 and 3 are lost, and book 4 lacks its beginning.

Summary: Xenophanes taught that God is one, eternal, spherical, and perceives with all his being.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 28

Λέγει δὲ ὅτι οὐδὲν γίνεται οὐδὲ φθείρεται οὐδὲ κινεῖται, καὶ ὅτι ἓν τὸ πᾶν ἐστιν ἔξω μεταβολῆς. Φησὶ δὲ καὶ τὸν θεὸν εἶναι ἀΐδιον, καὶ ἕνα, καὶ ὅμοιον πάντη, καὶ πεπερασμένον, καὶ σφαιροειδῆ, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς μορίοις αἰσθητικόν.

English · Claude translation

He says that nothing comes to be, or perishes, or moves, and that the universe is one, beyond change. He also says that God is everlasting, and one, and alike in every way, and limited, and spherical, and perceptive in all his parts.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 28 · Ludwig Duncker and F. G. Schneidewin, eds., S. Hippolyti episcopi et martyris Refutationis omnium haeresium librorum decem quae supersunt (Göttingen: Dieterich, 1859); section divisions from Paul Wendland, ed., Hippolytus Werke 3: Refutatio omnium haeresium, GCS 26 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1916) · Greek text: L. Duncker and F. G. Schneidewin, Refutationis omnium haeresium (Göttingen, 1859), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library; section divisions from P. Wendland (GCS 26, 1916), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin); both CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Duncker–Schneidewin. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Duncker–Schneidewin; made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (1886) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Its chapter numbers differ from the standard (Wendland) numbering used here.

Notes

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  • Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): θεὸν εἷναι → θεὸν εἶναι.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 1.14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/14/2/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 1.14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/14/2/).

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