Refutation of All Heresies 10.27.2

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: For Noetus the one God is invisible or visible, unbegotten or born, impassible or suffering, and is called Son at different times.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 528

καὶ τοῦτον εἶναι ἀόρατον, ὅτε μὴ ὁρᾶται, ὁρατὸν δέ, ὅταν ὁρᾶται· ἀγέννητον δέ, ὅταν μὴ γεννᾶται, γεννητὸν δέ, ὅταν γεννᾶται ἐκ παρθένου· ἀπαθῆ καὶ ἀθάνατον, ὅτε μὴ πάσχῃ μήτε θνήσκῃ, ἐπὰν δὲ πάθη προσέλθῃ, πάσχειν καὶ θνήσκειν. Τοῦτον τὸν πατέρα αὐτὸν υἱὸν νομίζουσι κατὰ καιροὺς καλούμενον πρὸς τὰ συμβαίνοντα.

English · Claude translation

and that he is invisible when he is not seen, but visible when he is seen; unbegotten when he is not begotten, but begotten when he is begotten of a virgin; impassible and immortal when he does not suffer or die, but when sufferings come upon him, he suffers and dies. They think that this Father himself is called Son at different times according to what happens.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 528 · 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, Trinity, Christology

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.27.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/27/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.27.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/27/2/).