Refutation of All Heresies 10.15.5

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: Elohim ascended to the Good and left Edem, who in anger plots against his spirit in humans; Baruch was sent through the prophets to rescue it.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 518

Τοῦτον δὲ φάσκει μαθόντα ἀνεληλυθέναι πρὸς τὸν ἀγαθὸν καὶ καταλελοιπέναι τὴν Ἐδέμ· ἐφʼ ᾧ ὀργισθεῖσαν ταύτην πᾶσαν τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν ποιεῖσθαι κατὰ τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ Ἐλωείμ, ὅπερ κατέθετο ἐν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ. Καὶ τούτου χάριν ἀπεσταλκέναι τὸν πατέρα τὸν Βαροὺχ διαταττόμενον τοῖς προφήταις, ἵνα ῥυσθῇ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ Ἐλωείμ, καὶ πάντας ὑποσεσύρθαι ὑπὸ τῆς Ἐδέμ.

English · Claude translation

And he claims that Elohim, having learned, went up to the Good and left Edem behind; at which she, enraged, makes every plot against the spirit of Elohim, which he placed in man. And for this reason the Father sent Baruch, giving orders to the prophets, so that the spirit of Elohim might be rescued, and that all were drawn aside by Edem.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 518 · 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

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.15.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/15/5/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.15.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/15/5/).