Refutation of All Heresies 4.8.7

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, 66

ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ σεληνιακοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ ἡλίου κύκλον σταδίων μυριάδ. (??) καὶ μονάδ. (??). ἀπὸ τοῦδε ἐπὶ τὸν τῆς Ἀφροδίτης κύκλον σταδίων μυριάδ. (??) καὶ μονάδας (??). ἀπὸ τοῦδε ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ κύκλον σταδίων μυριάδ. (??), μονάδ. (??). ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ πυρόεντος κύκλον σταδίων μυριάδ. (??), μονάδ. (??). ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ Διὸς κύκλον σταδίων μυριάδ. (??), μονάδας (??). ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ Κρόνου κύκλον σταδίων μυριάδ. (??), μονάδ. (??). ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν ζωδιακὸν καὶ τὴν ἐσχάτην περιφέρειαν σταδίων μυριάδ. (??), μονάδ. (??).

English · Claude translation

From the circle of the moon to the circle of the sun, … myriads and … stades; from this to the circle of Aphrodite, … myriads and … stades; from this to the circle of Hermes, … myriads, … units; from this to the circle of the Fiery one, … myriads, … units; from this to the circle of Zeus, … myriads, … units; from this to the circle of Cronus, … myriads, … units; from this to the zodiac and the outermost circumference, … myriads, … units.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 66 · 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

The numbers could not be read by the digitizers (marked (??) in the digital text) and are shown as "…". The planets are Venus (Aphrodite), Mercury (Hermes), Mars (the Fiery one), Jupiter (Zeus), and Saturn (Cronus).

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/8/7/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 4.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/8/7/).