Refutation of All Heresies 1.26.3

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.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 48

Οὗτοι μὲν οὖν πάντες περὶ τῆς τοῦ παντὸς φύσεώς τε καὶ γενέσεως ταῦτα καθὼς ἐξεθέμεθα τῇ αὐτῶν δόξῃ ἐξεῖπον. Οἱ δὲ πάντες κάτω τοῦ θείου χωρήσαντες περὶ τὴν τῶν γενομένων οὐσίαν ἠσχολήθησαν, τὰ μεγέθη τῆς κτίσεως καταπλαγέντες, καὶ αὐτὰ τὸ θεῖον εἶναι νομίσαντες, ἕτερος ἕτερον μέρος τῆς κτίσεως προκρίναντες, τὸν δὲ θεὸν τούτων καὶ δημιουργὸν μὴ ἐπιγνόντες.

English · Claude translation

All these, then, declared these things about the nature and origin of the universe according to their own opinion, as we have set them out. But all of them, falling short of the divine, busied themselves with the substance of created things; struck with amazement at the greatness of creation, they thought these things were the divine itself, each preferring a different part of creation, and did not recognize the God and Creator of these things.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 48 · 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.

Scripture

Rom 1:25 · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): Οὗτοι μὲν οὗν πάντες → Οὗτοι μὲν οὖν πάντες.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 1.26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/26/3/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 1.26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/26/3/).