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Refutation of All Heresies 1.19.13

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: Others say Plato taught that souls receive places by desert, some with the gods and some in eternal punishment.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 34

Οἱ δὲ οὔ, ἀλλὰ τόπον λαγχάνειν κατʼ ἀξίαν ἑκάστῃ, καὶ χρῶνται μαρτυρίῳ, ὅτι φησὶ μετὰ Διός τινας εἶναι, ἄλλους δὲ μετὰ ἄλλων θεῶν συμπεριπολοῦντας τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀνδρῶν, τοὺς δὲ ἐν κολάσεσιν ὑπάρχειν αἰωνίοις, ὅσοι πονηρὰ καὶ ἄδικα παρὰ τοῦτον τὸν βίον εἰσὶν ἐξειργασμένοι.

English · Claude translation

Others say no, but that each soul obtains a place according to its desert; and they use as evidence that he says some are with Zeus, and others go round with other gods, those of good men, while others are in eternal punishments, as many as have done wicked and unjust things in this life.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 34 · 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.
Extrabiblical texts
  • Plato, Phaedr. 246e (Plato (works)) · allusion, medium confidence
Topics
Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusion is to Plato, Phaedrus 246e–248c, and the myths of judgment (e.g. Gorgias 525c).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 1.19.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/19/13/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 1.19.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/19/13/).

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