Refutation of All Heresies 4.14.2

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.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 74

καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἑκατοντάδων, ὅσαι ἂν ὦσιν αἱ ἑκατοντάδες, τοσαῦται μονάδες ὁ πυθμήν ἐστιν αὐτῶν, οἷον τῶν ἑπτακοσίων ἑπτά εἰσιν ἑκατοντάδες· ὁ πυθμὴν αὐτῶν ἑπτὰ μονάδες· τῶν ἑξακοσίων ἓξ ἑκατοντάδες· ὁ πυθμὴν αὐτῶν τρεῖς μονάδες. Τὸ ὅμοιον· καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν δεκάδων· τῶν μὲν ὀγδοήκοντα μονάδες ὀκτώ, τῶν δὲ ἑξήκοντα μονάδες ἕξ, τῶν τεσσαράκοντα μονάδες τέσσαρες, τῶν δέκα μονὰς μία.

English · Claude translation

and for the hundreds, as many hundreds as there are, so many units is their root: of seven hundred there are seven hundreds, and their root is seven units; of six hundred, six hundreds, and their root is three units. Similarly for the tens: of eighty, eight units; of sixty, six units; of forty, four units; of ten, one unit.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 74 · 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

"Three units" for six hundred is an error (six is expected); it may be a slip in the transmission.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong breathing in the digital text): αἱ ἐκατοντάδες → αἱ ἑκατοντάδες.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/14/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/14/2/).