Refutation of All Heresies 4.14.10

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.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 76

Εἰ δὲ ἔσται (??), τὸ ἕβδομον λέγει (??), ἑπτάκις γὰρ ἓξ (??), καὶ λοιπὸν ἔν. Μονὰς οὖν γίνεται ὁ πυθμὴν ὁ ἀπὸ τῶν (??) κατὰ τὸν ἑβδοματικόν. Δεῖ δὲ προσέχειν ἐὰν ὁ ληφθεὶς ἀριθμὸς μεριζόμενος ἀπαρτίσῃ, οἷον ἐὰν ἔκ τινος ὀνόματος συντιθεὶς τοὺς πυθμένας εὕρω λόγου χάριν μονάδας (??)· ὁ δὲ (??) μεριζόμενος εἰς τὸν ἐννέα (??) ἀπαρτίζει ἐννεάδας (ἐννάκις γὰρ (??) (??), καὶ οὐδὲν περιλείπεται)· τὸν πυθμένα οὖν αὐτὸν τὸν (??) δῆλον εἶναι.

English · Claude translation

If it is …, he says the seventh is …; for seven times six is …, and one is left. So the root from … by the rule of seven is one. One must watch whether the number taken divides exactly: for example, if, adding the roots from some name, I find, say, … units, and … divided by nine … divides exactly into nines (for nine times … is …, and nothing is left), then clearly the root is … itself.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 76 · 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

Numbers could not be read by the digitizers (marked (??) in the digital text) and are shown as "…".

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): τὸν πυθμένα οὗν → τὸν πυθμένα οὖν.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.14.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/14/10/).

The SBL abbreviation for this work has not been checked yet.

Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.14.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/14/10/).