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Refutation of All Heresies 10.12.2

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: The world came from the unbegotten fire through six roots in pairs: Mind and Thought, Voice and Name, Reasoning and Reflection.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 510

Πάντα δὲ, φησί, νενόμισται τὰ μέρη τοῦ πυρὸς ὁρατὰ καὶ ἀόρατα φρόνησιν ἔχειν. Γέγονεν οὖν, φασίν, ὁ κόσμος ὁ γεννητὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀγεννήτου πυρός. Ἤρξατο δέ, φησίν, οὕτως γίνεσθαι· ἓξ ῥίζας τὰς πρώτας τῆς ἀρχῆς τῆς γενέσεως ὁ γεννητὸς ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ πυρὸς ἐκείνου λαβών· ταύτας γὰρ ῥίζας γεγονέναι κατὰ συζυγίας ἀπὸ τοῦ πυρός, ἅστινας καλεῖ νοῦν καὶ ἐπίνοιαν, φωνὴν καὶ ὄνομα, λογισμὸν καὶ ἐνθύμησιν.

English · Claude translation

And all the parts of the fire, he says, visible and invisible, are thought to have understanding. So, they say, the begotten world came into being from the unbegotten fire. And it began, he says, to come into being thus: the begotten one took from the principle of that fire six roots, the first of the principle of generation; for these roots came into being in pairs from the fire, which he calls Mind and Thought, Voice and Name, Reasoning and Reflection.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 510 · 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.
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong accent: οὖν): Γέγονεν οὗν → Γέγονεν οὖν.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/12/2/).

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