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Refutation of All Heresies 4.14.11

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: An exact division by nine or seven gives nine or seven as the root.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 76

Κἂν πάλιν τὸν τεσσαράκοντα πέντε ἀριθμὸν μερίζοντες εὕρωμεν ἀπαρτίζοντα ἐννέα· καὶ γὰρ ἐννάκις πέντε (??), καὶ λείπεται οὐδέν· ἐπὶ τῶν τοιούτων αὐτὸν τὸν ἐννέα λέγουσι πυθμένα. Καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἑβδοματικοῦ ὁμοίως, ἐὰν λόγου χάριν τὸν (??) εἰς τὸν ἑπτὰ μερίζοντες ἀπαρτίσωμεν (ἑπτάκις γὰρ (??), καὶ περιλείπεται οὐδέν), τὸν ἑπτὰ λέγουσι πυθμένα.

English · Claude translation

And again, if we divide the number forty-five and find that it divides exactly by nine (for nine times five is …, and nothing is left), in such cases they call nine itself the root. And likewise with the rule of seven: if, for example, we divide … by seven and it divides exactly (for seven times … and nothing is left), they call seven the root.

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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.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 4.14.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/14/11/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 4.14.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/14/11/).

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