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Refutation of All Heresies 10.14.6

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: The great Archon rose to the firmament and thought himself supreme, ignorant of the wiser Sonship left below.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 514–516

Ἀπὸ τῆς πανσπερμίας τοῦ σωροῦ τοῦ κοσμικοῦ σπέρματος διέσφυξε καὶ ἐγεννήθη ὁ μέγας ἄρχων, ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ κόσμου, κάλλει καὶ μεγέθει ἀνεκλαλήτῳ. Οὗτος ὑψώσας ἑαυτὸν ἄχρι τοῦ στερεώματος ᾠήθη μὴ εἶναι ἑαυτοῦ ἐπάνω ἕτερον, καὶ ἐγένετο πάντων τῶν ὑποκειμένων φωτεινότερος καὶ δυνατώτερος πλὴν τῆς ὑπολελειμμένης υἱότητος, ἣν ἠγνόει οὖσαν αὐτοῦ σοφωτέραν.

English · Claude translation

From the seed-mass of the heap of the cosmic seed there burst forth and was born the great Archon, the head of the world, in unspeakable beauty and greatness. He, raising himself up to the firmament, thought that there was no other above him, and became more luminous and more powerful than all the things beneath, except the Sonship left behind, which he did not know was wiser than he.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 514–516 · 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: ἣν): ἥν ἠγνόει → ἣν ἠγνόει.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.14.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/14/6/).

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