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Refutation of All Heresies 1.9.6

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: Humans later separated from other animals and founded cities; all living things, Archelaus said, have mind.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 24

καὶ διεκρίθησαν ἄνθρωποι ἀπὸ τῶν ἄλλων, καὶ ἡγεμόνας καὶ νόμους καὶ τέχνας καὶ πόλεις καὶ τὰ ἄλλα συνέστησαν. Νοῦν δὲ λέγει πᾶσιν ἐμφύεσθαι ζώοις ὁμοίως. Χρήσασθαι γὰρ ἕκαστον καὶ τῶν σωμάτων ὅσῳ τὸ μὲν βραδυτέρως, τὸ δὲ ταχυτέρως.

English · Claude translation

and men were separated from the others, and set up leaders and laws and arts and cities and the rest. He says that mind is implanted in all living things alike; for each one uses it, as it uses its body, some more slowly and some more quickly.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 24 · 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

Translation notes

  • The last sentence is obscure in the Greek; the rendering follows the likely sense.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 1.9.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/9/6/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 1.9.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/9/6/).

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