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Refutation of All Heresies 4.48.14

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: Another constellation group, Cepheus and his family, teaches the same lesson.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 122

Τηρεῖται δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς κατὰ τὴν κεφαλήν, φησίν, ὑπὸ τοῦ Ὀφιούχου. Αὕτη, φησίν, εἰκὼν ἕστηκεν ἐν οὐρανῷ, σοφία τις οὖσα τοῖς ἰδεῖν δυναμένοις. Εἰ δὲ ἐστὶν ἀσαφὲς κατὰ τοῦτο, διʼ ἄλλης εἰκόνος, φησίν, ἡ κτίσις διδάσκει φιλοσοφεῖν, περὶ ἧς ὁ Ἄρατος εἴρηκεν οὕτως· Οὐδʼ ἄρα Κηφῆος μογερὸν γένος Ἰασίδαο.

English · Claude translation

And he himself, he says, is watched at the head by the Serpent-holder. This image, he says, stands in heaven, being a kind of wisdom to those able to see. And if it is unclear in this respect, creation teaches us to philosophize, he says, through another image, about which Aratus has spoken thus: "Nor, then, the toiling race of Cepheus son of Iasus."

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 122 · 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.
Extrabiblical texts
  • Aratus, Phaen. 179 (Aratus, Phaenomena) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

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  • The verse is Aratus, Phaenomena 179.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 4.48.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/48/14/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 4.48.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/48/14/).

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