Refutation of All Heresies 5.7.1–5.7.41
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 (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).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0). Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (1886).
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5.7.1Duncker–Schneidewin, 134
Ταῦτα ἐστὶν ἀπὸ πολλῶν πάνυ λόγων τὰ κεφάλαια, ἃ φησὶ παραδεδωκέναι Μαριάμνῃ τὸν Ἰάκωβον τοῦ κυρίου τὸν ἀδελφόν. Ἵνʼ οὖν μήτε Μαριάμνης ἔτι καταψεύδωνται οἱ ἀσεβεῖς, μήτε Ἰακώβου, μήτε τοῦ σωτῆρος αὐτοῦ, ἔλθωμεν ἐπὶ τὰς τελετὰς (ὅθεν αὐτοῖς οὗτος ὁ μῦθος), εἰ δοκεῖ, ἐπὶ τὰς βαρβαρικάς τε καὶ Ἑλληνικάς, καὶ ἴδωμεν ὡς τὰ κρυπτὰ καὶ ἀπόρρητα πάντων ὁμοῦ συνάγοντες οὗτοι μυστήρια τῶν ἐθνῶν καταψευδόμενοι τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐξαπατῶσι τοὺς ταῦτα οὐκ εἰδότας τὰ τῶν ἐθνῶν ὄργια.
Tauta estin apo pollōn pany logōn ta kephalaia, ha phēsi paradedōkenai Mariamnę̄ ton Iakōbon tou kyriou ton adelphon. Hinʼ oun mēte Mariamnēs eti katapseudōntai hoi asebeis, mēte Iakōbou, mēte tou sōtēros autou, elthōmen epi tas teletas (hothen autois houtos ho mythos), ei dokei, epi tas barbarikas te kai Hellēnikas, kai idōmen hōs ta krypta kai aporrēta pantōn homou synagontes houtoi mystēria tōn ethnōn katapseudomenoi tou Christou exapatōsi tous tauta ouk eidotas ta tōn ethnōn orgia.
These are the chief points of very many discourses which, he says, James the brother of the Lord handed down to Mariamne. So, in order that the impious may no longer lie against Mariamne, or James, or the Savior himself, let us come to the rites (from which they have this myth), if you will, both the barbarian and the Greek, and see how these men, gathering together the hidden and secret mysteries of all the nations and lying against Christ, deceive those who do not know these orgies of the nations.
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Summary: The Naassenes claim a tradition from James through Mariamne; Hippolytus will show it comes from pagan mysteries.
- Mariamne is probably Mary Magdalene.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.1 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 134; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.2Duncker–Schneidewin, 134
Ἐπεὶ γὰρ ὑπόθεσις αὐτοῖς ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐστὶν Ἀδάμας, καὶ λέγουσι γεγράφθαι περὶ αὐτοῦ, Τὴν γενεὰν αὐτοῦ τίς διηγήσεται; μάθετε πῶς κατὰ μέρος παρὰ τῶν ἐθνῶν τὴν ἀνεξεύρητον καὶ ἀδιάφορον τοῦ ἀνθρώπου γενεὰν λαβόντες ἐπιπλάσσουσι τῷ Χριστῷ.
Epei gar hypothesis autois ho anthrōpos estin Adamas, kai legousi gegraphthai peri autou, Tēn genean autou tis diēgēsetai? mathete pōs kata meros para tōn ethnōn tēn anexeurēton kai adiaphoron tou anthrōpou genean labontes epiplassousi tǭ Christǭ.
For since their foundation is the Man Adamas, and they say it is written about him, "Who will tell his generation?", learn how, taking from the nations piece by piece the unsearchable and undifferentiated generation of the Man, they fasten it onto Christ.
Isa 53:8 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Naassenes apply Isaiah's "who will tell his generation" to their Man.
- The quotation is Isa 53:8 (LXX).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.2 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 134; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.3Duncker–Schneidewin, 134
Γῆ δέ, φασὶν οἱ Ἕλληνες, ἄνθρωπον ἀνέδωκε πρώτη καλὸν ἐνεγκαμένη γέρας, μὴ φυτῶν ἀναισθήτων μηδὲ θηρίων ἀλόγων, ἀλλὰ ἡμέρου ζῴου καὶ θεοφιλοῦς ἐθέλουσα μήτηρ γενέσθαι·
Gē de, phasin hoi Hellēnes, anthrōpon anedōke prōtē kalon enenkamenē geras, mē phytōn anaisthētōn mēde thēriōn alogōn, alla hēmerou zǭou kai theophilous ethelousa mētēr genesthai;
"Earth," say the Greeks, "first brought forth man, bearing a fair gift, wishing to become mother not of senseless plants nor of irrational beasts, but of a gentle and god-loving creature;
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Summary: The Greeks say Earth first brought forth man.
- 5.7.3–5 quote a hymn or prose poem on the first man, from an unidentified source.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.3 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 134; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.4Duncker–Schneidewin, 134–136
χαλεπὸν δέ, φησίν, ἐξευρεῖν, εἴτε Βοιωτοῖς Ἀλαλκομενεὺς ὑπὲρ λίμνης Κηφιστίδος ἀνέσχε πρῶτος ἀνθρώπων, εἴτε Κουρῆτες ἦσαν Ἰδαῖοι, θεῖον γένος, ἢ Φρύγιοι Κορύβαντες, οὓς πρώτους ἥλιος ἔπιδε δενδροφυεῖς ἀναβλαστάνοντας, εἴτε προσεληναῖον Ἀρκαδία Πελασγόν, ἢ Ῥαρίας οἰκήτορα Δίαυλον Ἐλευσίν, ἢ Λῆμνος καλλίπαιδα Κάβιρον ἀρρήτων ἐτέκνωσεν ὀργιασμῶν, εἴτε Φελλήνη Φλεγραῖον Ἀλκυονέα, πρεσβύτατον Γιγάντων.
chalepon de, phēsin, exeurein, eite Boiōtois Alalkomeneus hyper limnēs Kēphistidos anesche prōtos anthrōpōn, eite Kourētes ēsan Idaioi, theion genos, ē Phrygioi Korybantes, hous prōtous hēlios epide dendrophyeis anablastanontas, eite proselēnaion Arkadia Pelasgon, ē Rharias oikētora Diaulon Eleusin, ē Lēmnos kallipaida Kabiron arrētōn eteknōsen orgiasmōn, eite Phellēnē Phlegraion Alkyonea, presbytaton Gigantōn.
but it is hard," he says, "to find out whether for the Boeotians Alalcomeneus rose first of men above the Cephisian lake; or whether it was the Idaean Curetes, a divine race, or the Phrygian Corybantes, whom the sun first saw sprouting up like trees; or whether Arcadia brought forth Pelasgus, older than the moon, or Eleusis Diaulus, dweller in Raria, or Lemnos begot Cabirus, fair child of unspeakable orgies, or Pallene Phlegraean Alcyoneus, eldest of the Giants.
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Summary: Different peoples claim different first men.
- The digital text reads Φελλήνη; Pallene is probably meant.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text (Α for Λ); wrong breathing mark in the digital text): ᾿Ραρίας → Ῥαρίας; Αῆμνος → Λῆμνος.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.4 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 134–136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.5Duncker–Schneidewin, 136
Λίβυες δὲ Ἰάρβαντα φασὶ πρωτόγονον αὐχμηρῶν ἀναδύντα πεδίων γλυκείας ἀπάρξασθαι Διὸς βαλάνου. Αἰγυπτίων δὲ Νεῖλος ἰλὺν ἐπιλιπαίνων μέχρι σήμερον ζωογονῶν, φησίν, ὑγρᾷ σαρκούμενα θερμότητι ζωὰ σώματα ἀναδίδωσιν.
Libyes de Iarbanta phasi prōtogonon auchmērōn anadynta pediōn glykeias aparxasthai Dios balanou. Aigyptiōn de Neilos ilyn epilipainōn mechri sēmeron zōogonōn, phēsin, hygrą sarkoumena thermotēti zōa sōmata anadidōsin.
The Libyans say that Iarbas, first-born, rising from the parched plains, first gathered the sweet acorn of Zeus. And the Nile of the Egyptians, enriching the mud, even to this day, he says, brings forth living bodies, fleshed by moist warmth.
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Summary: The Libyans and Egyptians have their own first men.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.5 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.6Duncker–Schneidewin, 136
Ἀσσύριοι δὲ Ὠαννὴν ἰχθυοφάγον γενέσθαι παρʼ αὐτοῖς, Χαλδαῖοι δὲ τὸν Ἀδάμ, Καὶ τοῦτον εἶναι φάσκουσι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὃν ἀνέδωκεν ἡ γῆ μόνον, κεῖσθαι δὲ αὐτὸν ἄπνουν, ἀκίνητον, ἀσάλευτον, ὡς ἀνδριάντα, εἰκόνα ὑπάρχοντα ἐκείνου τοῦ ἄνω, τοῦ ὑμνουμένου Ἀδάμαντος ἀνθρώπου, γενόμενον ὑπὸ δυνάμεων τῶν πολλῶν, περὶ ὧν ὁ κατὰ μέρος λόγος ἐστὶ πολύς.
Assyrioi de Ōannēn ichthyophagon genesthai parʼ autois, Chaldaioi de ton Adam, Kai touton einai phaskousi ton anthrōpon, hon anedōken hē gē monon, keisthai de auton apnoun, akinēton, asaleuton, hōs andrianta, eikona hyparchonta ekeinou tou anō, tou hymnoumenou Adamantos anthrōpou, genomenon hypo dynameōn tōn pollōn, peri hōn ho kata meros logos esti polys.
The Assyrians say that Oannes, the fish-eater, arose among them, and the Chaldeans Adam. And they say that this is the man whom the earth alone brought forth, and that he lay breathless, motionless, unstirring, like a statue, being an image of that one above, the hymned Man Adamas, made by the many powers, about whom the detailed account is long.
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Summary: The Chaldeans' Adam lay lifeless, an image of the heavenly Adamas made by many powers.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.6 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.7Duncker–Schneidewin, 136
Ἵνʼ οὖν τελέως ᾖ κεκρατημένος ὁ μέγας ἄνθρωπος ἄνωθεν, ἀφʼ οὗ, καθὼς λέγουσι, πᾶσα πατριὰ ὀνομαζομένη ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς συνέστηκεν, ἐδόθη αὐτῷ καὶ ψυχή, ἵνα διὰ τῆς ψυχῆς πάσχῃ καὶ κολάζηται καταδουλούμενον τὸ πλάσμα τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ καλλίστου καὶ τελείου ἀνθρώπου· καὶ γὰρ οὕτως αὐτὸν καλοῦσι.
Hinʼ oun teleōs ę̄ kekratēmenos ho megas anthrōpos anōthen, aphʼ hou, kathōs legousi, pasa patria onomazomenē epi gēs kai en tois ouranois synestēken, edothē autǭ kai psychē, hina dia tēs psychēs paschę̄ kai kolazētai katadouloumenon to plasma tou megalou kai kallistou kai teleiou anthrōpou; kai gar houtōs auton kalousi.
So that the great Man from above, from whom, as they say, every fatherhood named on earth and in the heavens has been constituted, might be completely held fast, a soul too was given him, so that through the soul the molded form of the great and most beautiful and perfect Man might suffer and be punished, being enslaved; for this is what they call him.
Eph 3:15 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: A soul was given to the molded Adam so that the image of the perfect Man would suffer in bondage.
- "Every fatherhood" echoes Eph 3:15.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.7 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.8Duncker–Schneidewin, 136
Ζητοῦσιν οὖν αὖ πάλιν τίς ἐστιν ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ πόθεν καὶ ποταπὴ τὴν φύσιν, ἵνʼ ἐλθοῦσα εἰς τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ κινήσασα καταδουλώσῃ καὶ κολάσῃ τὸ πλάσμα τοῦ τελείου ἀνθρώπου· ζητοῦσι δὲ οὐκ ἀπὸ τῶν γραφῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο ἀπὸ τῶν μυστικῶν. Εἶναι δὲ φασὶ τὴν ψυχὴν δυσεύρετον πάνυ καὶ δυσκατανόητον· οὐ γὰρ μένει ἐπὶ σχήματος οὐδὲ μορφῆς τῆς αὐτῆς πάντοτε οὐδὲ πάθους ἑνός, ἵνα τις αὐτὴν ἢ τύπῳ εἴπῃ ἢ οὐσίᾳ καταλήψεται.
Zētousin oun au palin tis estin hē psychē kai pothen kai potapē tēn physin, hinʼ elthousa eis ton anthrōpon kai kinēsasa katadoulōsę̄ kai kolasę̄ to plasma tou teleiou anthrōpou; zētousi de ouk apo tōn graphōn, alla kai touto apo tōn mystikōn. Einai de phasi tēn psychēn dyseureton pany kai dyskatanoēton; ou gar menei epi schēmatos oude morphēs tēs autēs pantote oude pathous henos, hina tis autēn ē typǭ eipę̄ ē ousią katalēpsetai.
They inquire again, then, what the soul is, and whence, and of what nature, that coming into man and moving him it should enslave and punish the molded form of the perfect Man. And they inquire not from the Scriptures, but this too from the mystic rites. They say the soul is very hard to find and hard to understand; for it does not remain in the same figure or form always, nor in one state, so that one could either describe it by type or grasp it by substance.
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Summary: The Naassenes seek the soul's nature in the mysteries, not in Scripture.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): ἤ τύπῳ → ἢ τύπῳ.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.8 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.9Duncker–Schneidewin, 136–138
Τὰς δὲ ἐξαλλαγὰς ταύτας τὰς ποικίλας ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ κατʼ Αἰγυπτίους εὐαγγελίῳ κειμένας ἔχουσιν. Ἀποροῦσιν οὖν, καθάπερ οἱ ἄλλοι πάντες τῶν ἐθνῶν ἄνθρωποι, πότερόν ποτε ἐκ τοῦ προόντος ἐστίν, [ἢ] ἐκ τοῦ αὐτογενοῦς, ἢ ἐκ τοῦ ἐκκεχυμένου χάους. Καὶ πρῶτον ἐπὶ τὰς Ἀσσυρίων καταφεύγουσι τελετὰς τὴν τριχῆ διαίρεσιν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κατανοοῦντες· πρῶτοι γὰρ Ἀσσύριοι τὴν ψυχὴν τριμερῆ νομίζουσιν εἶναι καὶ μίαν.
Tas de exallagas tautas tas poikilas en tǭ epigraphomenǭ katʼ Aigyptious euangeliǭ keimenas echousin. Aporousin oun, kathaper hoi alloi pantes tōn ethnōn anthrōpoi, poteron pote ek tou proontos estin, [ē] ek tou autogenous, ē ek tou ekkechymenou chaous. Kai prōton epi tas Assyriōn katapheugousi teletas tēn trichē diairesin tou anthrōpou katanoountes; prōtoi gar Assyrioi tēn psychēn trimerē nomizousin einai kai mian.
These varied changes they have set out in the gospel entitled According to the Egyptians. They are at a loss, then, like all other men of the nations, whether it is from the Preexistent, [or] from the Self-begotten, or from the outpoured Chaos. And first they take refuge in the rites of the Assyrians, considering the threefold division of man; for the Assyrians first thought the soul to be threefold and one.
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Summary: The Naassenes use the Gospel of the Egyptians and Assyrian rites on the threefold soul.
Extrabiblical texts: Gos. Eg. (Gospel of the Egyptians; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.9 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 136–138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.10Duncker–Schneidewin, 138
Ψυχῆς γὰρ, φασί, πᾶσα φύσις, ἄλλη δὲ ἄλλως ὀρέγεται· ἔστι γὰρ ψυχὴ πάντων τῶν γινομένων αἰτία· πάντα ὅσα τρέφεται, φησί, καὶ αὔξει, ψυχῆς δεῖται. Οὐδὲν γὰρ οὔτε τροφῆς, φησίν, οὔτε αὐξήσεως οἷόν τʼ ἐστιν ἐπιτυχεῖν ψυχῆς μὴ παρούσης. Καὶ γὰρ οἱ λίθοι, φησίν, εἰσὶν ἔμψυχοι· ἔχουσι γὰρ τὸ αὐξητικόν· αὔξησις δὲ οὐκ ἄν ποτε γένοιτο χωρὶς τροφῆς· κατὰ προσθήκην γὰρ αὔξει τὰ αὐξανόμενα· ἡ δὲ προσθήκη τροφὴ τοῦ τρεφομένου.
Psychēs gar, phasi, pasa physis, allē de allōs oregetai; esti gar psychē pantōn tōn ginomenōn aitia; panta hosa trephetai, phēsi, kai auxei, psychēs deitai. Ouden gar oute trophēs, phēsin, oute auxēseōs hoion tʼ estin epitychein psychēs mē parousēs. Kai gar hoi lithoi, phēsin, eisin empsychoi; echousi gar to auxētikon; auxēsis de ouk an pote genoito chōris trophēs; kata prosthēkēn gar auxei ta auxanomena; hē de prosthēkē trophē tou trephomenou.
For every nature, they say, longs for soul, each in a different way; for soul is the cause of all things that come to be. All that is nourished, he says, and grows needs soul. For nothing, he says, can attain either nourishment or growth without soul present. For even stones, he says, are ensouled, for they have the power of growth; and growth could never come about without nourishment, for things that grow grow by addition, and the addition is the nourishment of what is nourished.
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Summary: They teach that all nature, even stone, desires soul, the cause of growth.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.10 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.11Duncker–Schneidewin, 138
Πᾶσα οὖν φύσις ἐπουρανίων, φησί, καὶ ἐπιγείων καὶ καταχθονίων ψυχῆς ὀρέγεται. Καλοῦσι δὲ Ἀσσύριοι τὸ τοιοῦτον Ἄδωνιν ἢ Ἐνδυμίωνα· καὶ ὅταν μὲν Ἄδωνις καλῆται, Ἀφροδίτη, φησίν, ἐρᾷ καὶ ἐπιθυμεῖ τῆς ψυχῆς τοῦ τοιούτου ὀνόματος. Ἀφροδίτη δὲ ἡ γένεσις ἐστὶ κατʼ αὐτούς.
Pasa oun physis epouraniōn, phēsi, kai epigeiōn kai katachthoniōn psychēs oregetai. Kalousi de Assyrioi to toiouton Adōnin ē Endymiōna; kai hotan men Adōnis kalētai, Aphroditē, phēsin, erą kai epithymei tēs psychēs tou toioutou onomatos. Aphroditē de hē genesis esti katʼ autous.
Every nature, then, of things in heaven, he says, and on earth and under the earth, longs for soul. The Assyrians call such a thing Adonis or Endymion; and when it is called Adonis, Aphrodite, he says, loves and desires the soul of such a name. And Aphrodite, according to them, is generation.
Phil 2:10 (echo, medium confidence)
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Summary: In Assyrian myth, Aphrodite (generation) loves Adonis (the soul).
- "In heaven and on earth and under the earth" echoes Phil 2:10.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.11 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.12Duncker–Schneidewin, 138
Ὅταν δὲ ἡ Περσεφόνη καὶ ἡ Κόρη ἐρᾷ τοῦ Ἀδώνιδος, θνητή, φησί, τὶς τῆς Ἀφροδίτης κεχωρισμένη [τῶν γενέσεως] ἐστὶν ἡ ψυχή. Ἐὰν δὲ ἡ Σελήνη Ἐνδυμίωνος εἰς ἐπιθυμίαν ἔλθῃ καὶ ἔρωτα μορφῆς, ἡ τῶν ὑψηλοτέρων, φησί, φύσις προσδεῖται καὶ ψυχῆς.
Hotan de hē Persephonē kai hē Korē erą tou Adōnidos, thnētē, phēsi, tis tēs Aphroditēs kechōrismenē [tōn geneseōs] estin hē psychē. Ean de hē Selēnē Endymiōnos eis epithymian elthę̄ kai erōta morphēs, hē tōn hypsēloterōn, phēsi, physis prosdeitai kai psychēs.
When Persephone, the Maiden, loves Adonis, the soul, he says, is something mortal, separated from Aphrodite [from generation]. And if Selene comes to desire Endymion and love of his form, the nature of the higher beings, he says, also needs soul.
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Summary: Persephone's and Selene's loves are read as allegories of the soul.
- The square brackets are the editor's.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.12 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.13Duncker–Schneidewin, 138
Ἐὰν δὲ, φησίν, ἡ μήτηρ τῶν θεῶν ἀποκόψῃ τὸν Ἄττιν καὶ αὐτὴ τοῦτον ἔχουσα ἐρώμενον, ἡ τῶν ὑπερκοσμίων, φησί, καὶ αἰωνίων ἄνω μακαρία φύσις τὴν ἀρρενικὴν δύναμιν τῆς ψυχῆς ἀνακαλεῖται πρὸς αὐτήν.
Ean de, phēsin, hē mētēr tōn theōn apokopsę̄ ton Attin kai autē touton echousa erōmenon, hē tōn hyperkosmiōn, phēsi, kai aiōniōn anō makaria physis tēn arrenikēn dynamin tēs psychēs anakaleitai pros autēn.
And if, he says, the Mother of the gods castrates Attis, though she herself has him as her beloved, the blessed nature above, he says, of the supercosmic and eternal beings calls back to itself the male power of the soul.
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Summary: The castration of Attis by the Mother of the gods is read as the soul's recall to the eternal realm.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.13 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.14Duncker–Schneidewin, 138
Ἔστι γὰρ, φησίν, ἀρσενόθηλυς ὁ ἄνθρωπος.
Esti gar, phēsin, arsenothēlys ho anthrōpos.
For Man, he says, is male-female.
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Summary: The heavenly Man is both male and female.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.14 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.15Duncker–Schneidewin, 138
Κατὰ τοῦτον οὖν αὐτοῖς τὸν λόγον πάνυ πονηρὸν καὶ κεκωλυμένον κατὰ τὴν διδασκαλίαν ἡ γυναικὸς πρὸς ἄνδρα δεδειγμένη καθέστηκεν ὁμιλία, Ἀπεκόπη γὰρ, φησίν, ὁ Ἄττις, τουτέστιν ἀπὸ τῶν χοϊκῶν τῆς κτίσεως κάτωθεν μερῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν αἰωνίαν ἄνω μετελήλυθεν οὐσίαν, ὅπου, φησίν, οὐκ ἔστιν οὔτε θῆλυ οὔτε ἄρσεν, ἀλλὰ καινὴ κτίσις, καινὸς ἄνθρωπος, ὅς ἐστιν ἀρσενόθηλυς. Ποῦ δὲ ἄνω λέγουσι, κατὰ τὸν οἰκεῖον ἐλθὼν δείξω τόπον.
Kata touton oun autois ton logon pany ponēron kai kekōlymenon kata tēn didaskalian hē gynaikos pros andra dedeigmenē kathestēken homilia, Apekopē gar, phēsin, ho Attis, toutestin apo tōn choïkōn tēs ktiseōs katōthen merōn, kai epi tēn aiōnian anō metelēlythen ousian, hopou, phēsin, ouk estin oute thēly oute arsen, alla kainē ktisis, kainos anthrōpos, hos estin arsenothēlys. Pou de anō legousi, kata ton oikeion elthōn deixō topon.
According to this account, then, intercourse of woman with man has been shown in their teaching to be very wicked and forbidden. For Attis, he says, was castrated, that is, cut off from the earthly parts of creation below, and passed over to the eternal substance above, where, he says, there is neither female nor male, but a new creation, a new man, who is male-female. Where they say "above" is, I shall show when I come to the proper place.
Gal 3:28 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Cor 5:17 (allusion, medium confidence) · Eph 2:15 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: The Naassenes forbid marital intercourse, reading Attis's castration as passage to a sexless new creation.
- The allusions are Gal 3:28, 2 Cor 5:17, and Eph 2:15.
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.15 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.16Duncker–Schneidewin, 138–140
Μαρτυρεῖν δέ φασιν αὐτῶν τῷ λόγῳ οὐχ ἁπλῶς μόνην τὴν Ῥέαν, ἀλλὰ γὰρ ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν ὅλην τὴν κτίσιν· καὶ τοῦτο εἶναι τὸ λεγόμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου διασαφοῦσι. Τὰ γὰρ ἀόρατα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς κτίσεως τοῦ κόσμου τοῖς ποιήμασιν αὐτοῦ νοούμενα καθορᾶται, ἥ τε ἀΐδιος αὐτοῦ δύναμις καὶ θειότης, πρὸς τὸ εἶναι αὐτοὺς ἀναπολογήτους.
Martyrein de phasin autōn tǭ logǭ ouch haplōs monēn tēn Rhean, alla gar hōs epos eipein holēn tēn ktisin; kai touto einai to legomenon hypo tou logou diasaphousi. Ta gar aorata autou apo tēs ktiseōs tou kosmou tois poiēmasin autou nooumena kathoratai, hē te aïdios autou dynamis kai theiotēs, pros to einai autous anapologētous.
They say that not only Rhea bears witness to their account, but, so to speak, the whole creation; and they make clear that this is what is said by the Word: "For his invisible things are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, so that they are without excuse.
Rom 1:20 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: They cite Paul in Romans on creation revealing God.
- The quotation is Rom 1:20. Rhea is the Mother of the gods.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.16 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 138–140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.17Duncker–Schneidewin, 140
Διότι γνόντες τὸν θεὸν οὐχ ὡς θεὸν ἐδόξασαν ἢ ηὐχαρίστησαν, ἀλλʼ ἐματαιώθη ἡ ἀσύνετος αὐτῶν καρδία· φάσκοντες γὰρ εἶναι σοφοὶ ἐμωράνθησαν καὶ ἤλλαξαν τὴν δόξαν τοῦ ἀφθάρτου θεοῦ ἐν ὁμοιώμασιν εἰκόνος φθαρτοῦ ἀνθρώπου καὶ πετεινῶν καὶ τετραπόδων καὶ ἑρπετῶν· διὸ καὶ παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ θεὸς εἰς πάθη ἀτιμίας· αἵ τε γὰρ θήλειαι αὐτῶν μετήλλαξαν τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν εἰς τὴν παρὰ φύσιν.
Dioti gnontes ton theon ouch hōs theon edoxasan ē ēucharistēsan, allʼ emataiōthē hē asynetos autōn kardia; phaskontes gar einai sophoi emōranthēsan kai ēllaxan tēn doxan tou aphthartou theou en homoiōmasin eikonos phthartou anthrōpou kai peteinōn kai tetrapodōn kai herpetōn; dio kai paredōken autous ho theos eis pathē atimias; hai te gar thēleiai autōn metēllaxan tēn physikēn chrēsin eis tēn para physin.
Because, knowing God, they did not glorify him as God or give thanks, but their senseless heart was darkened; claiming to be wise they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed beasts and reptiles. Therefore God also gave them up to dishonorable passions; for their women exchanged natural use for what is against nature."
Rom 1:21–23 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 1:26 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Romans passage continues on idolatry and unnatural passions.
- The quotation is Rom 1:21–23, 26.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): ἤ ηὐχαρίστησαν → ἢ ηὐχαρίστησαν.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.17 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.18Duncker–Schneidewin, 140
Τί δέ ἐστιν ἡ φυσικὴ κατʼ αὐτοὺς χρῆσις, ὕστερον ἐροῦμεν. Ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ οἱ ἄρρενες ἀφέντες τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν τῆς θηλείας ἐξεκαύθησαν ἐν τῇ ὀρέξει αὐτῶν εἰς ἀλλήλους, ἄρρενες ἐν ἄρρεσι τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην κατεργαζόμενοι (ἀσχημοσύνη δέ ἐστιν ἡ πρώτη καὶ μακαρία κατʼ αὐτοὺς ἀσχημάτιστος οὐσία, ἡ πάντων σχημάτων τοῖς σχηματιζομένοις αἰτία) καὶ τὴν ἀντιμισθίαν ἣν ἔδει τῆς πλάνης αὐτῶν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἀπολαμβάνοντες.
Ti de estin hē physikē katʼ autous chrēsis, hysteron eroumen. Homoiōs de kai hoi arrenes aphentes tēn physikēn chrēsin tēs thēleias exekauthēsan en tę̄ orexei autōn eis allēlous, arrenes en arresi tēn aschēmosynēn katergazomenoi (aschēmosynē de estin hē prōtē kai makaria katʼ autous aschēmatistos ousia, hē pantōn schēmatōn tois schēmatizomenois aitia) kai tēn antimisthian hēn edei tēs planēs autōn en heautois apolambanontes.
What natural use is according to them we shall say later. "And likewise the men too, leaving the natural use of the woman, were inflamed in their desire for one another, men with men working shamelessness" (and shamelessness, according to them, is the first and blessed shapeless substance, the cause of all shapes for things that are shaped) "and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was due."
Rom 1:27 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Naassenes reinterpret Paul's word "shamelessness" as the first shapeless substance.
- The quotation is Rom 1:27. The pun is on ἀσχημοσύνη "shamelessness" and ἀσχημάτιστος "shapeless".
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.18 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.19Duncker–Schneidewin, 140
Ἐν γὰρ τούτοις τοῖς λόγοις, οἷς εἴρηκεν ὁ Παῦλος, ὅλον φασὶ συνέχεσθαι τὸ κρύφιον αὐτῶν καὶ ἄρρητον τῆς μακαρίας μυστήριον ἡδονῆς. Ἡ γὰρ ἐπαγγελία τοῦ λουτροῦ οὐκ ἄλλη τίς ἐστι κατʼ αὐτούς, ἢ τὸ εἰσαγαγεῖν εἰς τὴν ἀμάραντον ἡδονὴν τὸν λουόμενον κατʼ αὐτοὺς ζῶντι ὕδατι καὶ χριόμενον ἀλάλῳ χρίσματι.
En gar toutois tois logois, hois eirēken ho Paulos, holon phasi synechesthai to kryphion autōn kai arrēton tēs makarias mystērion hēdonēs. Hē gar epangelia tou loutrou ouk allē tis esti katʼ autous, ē to eisagagein eis tēn amaranton hēdonēn ton louomenon katʼ autous zōnti hydati kai chriomenon alalǭ chrismati.
For in these words which Paul has spoken, they say, their whole hidden and unspeakable mystery of blessed pleasure is contained. For the promise of the washing, according to them, is nothing other than bringing into unfading pleasure the one who is washed, according to them, in living water and anointed with an unspeakable anointing.
John 4:10 (echo, low confidence)
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Summary: They claim Paul's words hide their mystery, and that their baptism brings unfading pleasure.
- "Living water" may echo John 4:10.
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.19 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.20Duncker–Schneidewin, 140–142
Οὐ μόνον δʼ αὐτῶν ἐπιμαρτυρῖν φασὶ τῷ λόγῳ τὰ Ἀσσυρίων μυστήρια ἀλλὰ καὶ Φρυγῶν περὶ τὴν τῶν γεγονότων καὶ γινομένων καὶ ἐσομένων ἔτι μακαρίαν κρυβομένην ὁμοῦ καὶ φανερουμένην φύσιν, ἥνπερ φησὶ τὴν ἐντὸς ἀνθρώπου βασίλειαν οὐρανῶν ζητουμένην, περὶ ἧς διαρρήδην ἐν τῷ κατὰ Θωμᾶν ἐπιγραφομένῳ εὐαγγελίῳ παραδιδόασι λέγοντες οὕτως· ἐμὲ ὁ ζητῶν εὑρήσει ἐν παιδίοις ἀπὸ ἐτῶν ἑπτά· ἐκεῖ γὰρ ἐν τῷ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῳ αἰῶνι κρυβόμενος φανεροῦμαι.
Ou monon dʼ autōn epimartyrin phasi tǭ logǭ ta Assyriōn mystēria alla kai Phrygōn peri tēn tōn gegonotōn kai ginomenōn kai esomenōn eti makarian krybomenēn homou kai phaneroumenēn physin, hēnper phēsi tēn entos anthrōpou basileian ouranōn zētoumenēn, peri hēs diarrēdēn en tǭ kata Thōman epigraphomenǭ euangeliǭ paradidoasi legontes houtōs; eme ho zētōn heurēsei en paidiois apo etōn hepta; ekei gar en tǭ tessareskaidekatǭ aiōni krybomenos phaneroumai.
They say that not only the mysteries of the Assyrians bear witness to their account, but also those of the Phrygians, concerning the blessed nature, at once hidden and revealed, of things that have been, are, and will yet be, which, he says, is the kingdom of heaven sought within man; concerning which they hand down explicitly in the gospel entitled According to Thomas, saying thus: "He who seeks me will find me in children from seven years old; for there, hidden in the fourteenth age, I am revealed."
Luke 17:21 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The Naassenes cite a saying from the Gospel of Thomas about finding the kingdom in children.
- "The kingdom of heaven within man" echoes Luke 17:21. The saying resembles Gospel of Thomas 4 in the Coptic version, but not exactly.
Extrabiblical texts: Gos. Thom. 4 (Gospel of Thomas; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.20 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 140–142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.21Duncker–Schneidewin, 142
Τοῦτο δὲ οὐκ ἔστι Χριστοῦ, ἀλλὰ Ἱπποκράτους λέγοντος· ἑπτὰ ἐτῶν παῖς πατρὸς ἥμισυ· ὅθεν οὗτοι τὴν ἀρχέγονον φύσιν τῶν ὅλων ἐν ἀρχεγόνῳ τιθέμενοι σπέρματι, τὸ Ἱπποκράτειον ἀκηκοότες, ὅτι ἔστιν ἥμισυ πατρὸς παιδίον ἑπτὰ ἐτῶν, ἐν τοῖς τέσσαρσι [καὶ δέκα] φασὶν ἔτεσι, κατὰ τὸν Θωμᾶν, εἶναι φανερούμενον.
Touto de ouk esti Christou, alla Hippokratous legontos; hepta etōn pais patros hēmisy; hothen houtoi tēn archegonon physin tōn holōn en archegonǭ tithemenoi spermati, to Hippokrateion akēkootes, hoti estin hēmisy patros paidion hepta etōn, en tois tessarsi [kai deka] phasin etesi, kata ton Thōman, einai phaneroumenon.
But this is not Christ's saying but that of Hippocrates, who says: "A child of seven years is half a father." Hence these men, placing the primal nature of all things in the primal seed, having heard the Hippocratic saying that a child of seven years is half a father, say that in the fourteen years, according to Thomas, it is revealed.
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Summary: Hippolytus traces the saying to Hippocrates, not Christ.
- The saying is from the Hippocratic treatise On the Sevens (De hebdomadibus).
Extrabiblical texts: Hippocrates (Hippocrates, Hippocratic Corpus; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.21 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.22Duncker–Schneidewin, 142
Οὗτος ἐστὶν ὁ ἀπόρρητος αὐτοῖς λόγος καὶ μυστικός. Λέγουσιν οὖν, ὅτι Αἰγύπτιοι, πάντων ἀνθρώπων μετὰ τοὺς Φρύγας ἀρχαιότεροι καθεστῶτες καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνθρώποις ὁμολογουμένως τελετὰς καὶ ὄργια θεῶν πάντων ὁμοῦ μεταδόντες πρῶτοι καὶ κατηγγελκότες ἰδέας καὶ ἐνεργείας, ἱερὰ καὶ σεβάσμια καὶ ἀνεξαγόρευτα τοῖς μὴ τετελεσμένοις τὰ Ἴσιδος ἔχουσι μυστήρια·
Houtos estin ho aporrētos autois logos kai mystikos. Legousin oun, hoti Aigyptioi, pantōn anthrōpōn meta tous Phrygas archaioteroi kathestōtes kai pasi tois allois anthrōpois homologoumenōs teletas kai orgia theōn pantōn homou metadontes prōtoi kai katēngelkotes ideas kai energeias, hiera kai sebasmia kai anexagoreuta tois mē tetelesmenois ta Isidos echousi mystēria;
This is their secret and mystic doctrine. They say, then, that the Egyptians, who are older than all men after the Phrygians, and who, as all other men agree, were the first to impart to them the rites and orgies of all the gods together and to proclaim their forms and activities, possess the mysteries of Isis, holy, venerable, and not to be divulged to the uninitiated;
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Summary: The Naassenes turn to the Egyptian mysteries of Isis.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.22 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.23Duncker–Schneidewin, 142
τὰ δʼ εἰσὶν οὐκ ἄλλο τι ἢ ἡρπασμένον καὶ ζητούμενον ὑπὸ τῆς ἑπταστόλου καὶ μελανείμονος αἰδοῖον Ὀσίριδος. Ὄσιριν δὲ λέγουσιν ὕδωρ. Ἡ δὲ φύσις ἑπτάστολος, περὶ αὐτὴν ἔχουσα καὶ ἐστολισμένη ἑπτὰ στολὰς αἰθερίους (τοὺς πλανήτας γὰρ ἀστέρας οὕτω προσαγορεύουσιν ἀλληγοροῦντες καὶ αἰθερίους καλοῦντες) κατʼ αὐτοὺς ἡ μεταβλητὴ γένεσις καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀρρήτου καὶ ἀνεξεικονίστου καὶ ἀνεννοήτου καὶ ἀμόρφου μεταμορφουμένη κτίσις ἀναδείκνυται·
ta dʼ eisin ouk allo ti ē hērpasmenon kai zētoumenon hypo tēs heptastolou kai melaneimonos aidoion Osiridos. Osirin de legousin hydōr. Hē de physis heptastolos, peri autēn echousa kai estolismenē hepta stolas aitherious (tous planētas gar asteras houtō prosagoreuousin allēgorountes kai aitherious kalountes) katʼ autous hē metablētē genesis kai hypo tou arrētou kai anexeikonistou kai anennoētou kai amorphou metamorphoumenē ktisis anadeiknytai;
and these are nothing other than the genitals of Osiris, snatched away and sought by the seven-robed and black-clad goddess. Osiris, they say, is water. And the seven-robed nature, having around her and clothed in seven ethereal robes (for so they call the planets, allegorizing and calling them ethereal), is according to them changeable generation, and is shown as creation transformed by the ineffable, unimageable, inconceivable, and formless one;
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Summary: Isis seeking Osiris is read as changeable creation clothed in the seven planets.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.23 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.24Duncker–Schneidewin, 142
καὶ τοῦτο ἐστὶ τὸ εἰρημένον, φησίν, ἐν τῇ γραφῇ· ἑπτάκις πεσεῖται ὁ δίκαιος καὶ ἀναστήσεται. Αὗται γὰρ αἱ πτώσεις, φησίν, αἱ τῶν ἄστρων μεταβολαὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ πάντα κινοῦντος κινούμεναι.
kai touto esti to eirēmenon, phēsin, en tę̄ graphę̄; heptakis peseitai ho dikaios kai anastēsetai. Hautai gar hai ptōseis, phēsin, hai tōn astrōn metabolai hypo tou panta kinountos kinoumenai.
and this is what is said, he says, in Scripture: "Seven times the righteous man will fall and rise again." For these falls, he says, are the changes of the stars, moved by the one who moves all things.
Prov 24:16 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: They read Proverbs' "the righteous falls seven times" as the motions of the planets.
- The quotation is Prov 24:16.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.24 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.25Duncker–Schneidewin, 142
Λέγουσιν οὖν περὶ τῆς τοῦ σπέρματος οὐσίας, ἥτις ἐστὶ πάντων τῶν γινομένων αἰτία, ὅτι τούτων ἐστὶν οὐδέν, γεννᾷ δὲ καὶ ποιεῖ πάντα τὰ γινόμενα, λέγοντες οὕτως· γίνομαι ὃ θέλω καὶ εἰμὶ ὃ εἰμί, διὰ τοῦτο φημὶ ἀκίνητον εἶναι τὸ πάντα κινοῦν. Μένει γὰρ ὅ ἐστι ποιοῦν τὰ πάντα καὶ οὐδὲν τῶν γινομένων γίνεται.
Legousin oun peri tēs tou spermatos ousias, hētis esti pantōn tōn ginomenōn aitia, hoti toutōn estin ouden, genną de kai poiei panta ta ginomena, legontes houtōs; ginomai ho thelō kai eimi ho eimi, dia touto phēmi akinēton einai to panta kinoun. Menei gar ho esti poioun ta panta kai ouden tōn ginomenōn ginetai.
They say, then, about the substance of the seed, which is the cause of all things that come to be, that it is none of them, yet begets and makes all things that come to be, saying thus: "I become what I will and I am what I am; therefore I say that what moves all things is unmoved. For it remains what it is, making all things, and becomes none of the things that come to be."
Exod 3:14 (echo, medium confidence)
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Summary: The seed, cause of all things, is unmoved and becomes none of them.
- "I am what I am" echoes Exod 3:14.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.25 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.26Duncker–Schneidewin, 142–144
Τοῦτον εἶναι φησὶν ἀγαθὸν μόνον, καὶ περὶ τούτου λελέχθαι τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος λεγόμενον· Τί με λέγεις ἀγαθόν; εἷς ἐστὶν ἀγαθός, ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, ὃς ἀνατέλλει τὸν ἥλιον αὑτοῦ ἐπὶ δικαίους καὶ ἀδίκους καὶ βρέχει ἐπὶ ὁσίους καὶ ἁμαρτωλούς. Τίνες δέ εἰσιν οἱ ὅσιοι οἷς βρέχει καὶ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ οἷς ὁ αὐτὸς βρέχει, καὶ τοῦτο μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ὕστερον ἐροῦμεν.
Touton einai phēsin agathon monon, kai peri toutou lelechthai to hypo tou sōtēros legomenon; Ti me legeis agathon? heis estin agathos, ho patēr mou ho en tois ouranois, hos anatellei ton hēlion hautou epi dikaious kai adikous kai brechei epi hosious kai hamartōlous. Tines de eisin hoi hosioi hois brechei kai hoi hamartōloi hois ho autos brechei, kai touto meta tōn allōn hysteron eroumen.
This alone, he says, is good, and about this was spoken what the Savior said: "Why do you call me good? One is good, my Father in the heavens, who makes his sun rise on the just and the unjust and sends rain on the holy and on sinners." Who the holy are on whom he rains, and the sinners on whom the same one rains, we shall also say later with the rest.
Matt 19:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:45 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: They apply Jesus' saying that only the Father is good to their first principle.
- The quotation combines Matt 19:17 (Luke 18:19) and Matt 5:45.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (wrong breathing in the digital text): τὸν ἤλιον → τὸν ἥλιον.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.26 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 142–144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.27Duncker–Schneidewin, 144
Καὶ τοῦτʼ εἶναι τὸ μέγα καὶ κρύφιον τῶν ὅλων καὶ ἄγνωστον μυστήριον παρὰ τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις κεκαλυμμένον καὶ ἀνακεκαλυμμένον.
Kai toutʼ einai to mega kai kryphion tōn holōn kai agnōston mystērion para tois Aigyptiois kekalymmenon kai anakekalymmenon.
And this is the great, hidden, and unknown mystery of all things, veiled and unveiled among the Egyptians.
Notes and citation
Summary: This, they say, is the great Egyptian mystery.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.27 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.28Duncker–Schneidewin, 144
Ὄσιρις γάρ, φησίν, ἐστὶν ἐν ναῷ πρὸ τῆς Ἴσιδος, οὗ ἕστηκε γυμνὸν τὸ κεκρυμμένον, κάτωθεν ἄνω βλέπον καὶ πάντας αὐτοῦ τοὺς καρποὺς τῶν γινομένων στεφανούμενον· ἑστάναι δὲ οὐ μόνον ἐν τοῖς ἁγιωτάτοις, πρῶτον ἀγαλμάτων, ναοῖς λέγουσι τὸ τοιοῦτον, ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ εἰς τὴν ἁπάντων ἐπίγνωσιν, οἱονεὶ φῶς [οὐχ] ὑπὸ τὸν μόδιον, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τὴν λυχνίαν ἐπικείμενον, κήρυγμα κηρυσσόμενον ἐπὶ τῶν δωμάτων, ἐν πάσαις ὁδοῖς καὶ πάσαις ἀγυιαῖς καὶ παρʼ αὐταῖς ταῖς οἰκίαις ὅρον τινὰ καὶ τέρμα τῆς οἰκίας προτεταγμένον, καὶ τοῦτο εἶναι τὸ ἀγαθὸν ὑπὸ πάντων λεγόμενον· ἀγαθηφόρον γὰρ αὐτὸ καλοῦσιν, ὃ λέγουσιν οὐκ εἰδότες, καὶ τοῦτο Ἕλληνες μυστικὸν ἀπὸ Αἰγυπτίων παραλαβόντες φυλάσσουσι μέχρι σήμερον.
Osiris gar, phēsin, estin en naǭ pro tēs Isidos, hou hestēke gymnon to kekrymmenon, katōthen anō blepon kai pantas autou tous karpous tōn ginomenōn stephanoumenon; hestanai de ou monon en tois hagiōtatois, prōton agalmatōn, naois legousi to toiouton, alla gar kai eis tēn hapantōn epignōsin, hoionei phōs [ouch] hypo ton modion, allʼ epi tēn lychnian epikeimenon, kērygma kēryssomenon epi tōn dōmatōn, en pasais hodois kai pasais aguiais kai parʼ autais tais oikiais horon tina kai terma tēs oikias protetagmenon, kai touto einai to agathon hypo pantōn legomenon; agathēphoron gar auto kalousin, ho legousin ouk eidotes, kai touto Hellēnes mystikon apo Aigyptiōn paralabontes phylassousi mechri sēmeron.
For Osiris, he says, is in a temple in front of Isis, and his hidden part stands naked, looking upward from below and crowned with all its fruits of the things that come to be. They say that such a thing stands not only in the holiest temples, first of the images, but also for the recognition of all, like a light not under the bushel but set on the lampstand, a proclamation proclaimed on the housetops, in all roads and all streets and beside the houses themselves, set up as a boundary and limit of the house; and that this is the good spoken of by all; for they call it good-bringing, saying so without knowing it. And this the Greeks, having received it as a mystery from the Egyptians, keep to this day.
Matt 5:15 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 10:27 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The Naassenes see the phallic image of Osiris, set up publicly, as the "good" proclaimed on the housetops.
- The allusions are Matt 5:15 and Matt 10:27. The square brackets around "not" are the editor's.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): καὶ τοῦτο εἷναι → καὶ τοῦτο εἶναι.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.28 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.29Duncker–Schneidewin, 144
Τοὺς γοῦν Ἑρμᾶς, φησί, παρʼ αὐτοῖς τοιούτῳ τετιμημένους σχήματι θεωροῦμεν. Κυλλήνιον δὲ διαφερόντως τιμῶντες Λόγιον φασίν. Ὁ γὰρ Ἑρμῆς ἐστι λόγος, ὃς ἑρμηνεὺς ὢν καὶ δημιουργὸς τῶν γεγονότων ὁμοῦ καὶ γινομένων καὶ ἐσομένων παρʼ αὐτοῖς τιμώμενος ἕστηκε τοιούτῳ τινὶ κεχαρακτηρισμένος σχήματι, ὅπερ ἐστὶν αἰδοῖον ἀνθρώπου ἀπὸ τῶν κάτω ἐπὶ τὰ ἄνω ὁρμὴν ἔχον.
Tous goun Hermas, phēsi, parʼ autois toioutǭ tetimēmenous schēmati theōroumen. Kyllēnion de diapherontōs timōntes Logion phasin. Ho gar Hermēs esti logos, hos hermēneus ōn kai dēmiourgos tōn gegonotōn homou kai ginomenōn kai esomenōn parʼ autois timōmenos hestēke toioutǭ tini kecharaktērismenos schēmati, hoper estin aidoion anthrōpou apo tōn katō epi ta anō hormēn echon.
At any rate, he says, we see the Herms honored among them in such a form. And honoring the Cyllenian especially, they call him Logios. For Hermes is the Word, who, being interpreter and fashioner of things that have been, are, and will be, stands honored among them marked with some such form, which is the genitals of a man, having an impulse from below upward.
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Summary: They say Hermes, shown as a phallic pillar, is the Word.
- "Cyllenian" is an epithet of Hermes, born on Mount Cyllene; Logios means "god of speech".
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.29 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.30Duncker–Schneidewin, 144–146
Καὶ ὅτι οὗτος, τουτέστιν ὁ τοιοῦτος Ἑρμῆς, ψυχαγωγός, φησίν, ἐστὶ καὶ ψυχοπομπὸς καὶ ψυχῶν αἴτιος, οὐδὲ τοὺς ποιητὰς τῶν ἐθνῶν λανθάνει λέγοντας οὕτως· Ἑρμῆς δὲ ψυχὰς Κυλλήνιος ἐξεκαλεῖτο ἀνδρῶν μνηστήρων, οὐ τῶν Πηνελόπης, φησίν, ὦ κακοδαίμονες, μνηστήρων, ἀλλὰ τῶν ἐξυπνισμένων καὶ ἀνεμνησμένων, ἐξ οἵης τιμῆς [τε] καὶ [ὅσσου] μήκεος ὄλβου, τουτέστιν ἀπὸ τοῦ μακαρίου ἄνωθεν ἀνθρώπου ἢ ἀρχανθρώπου ἢ Ἀδάμαντος, ὡς ἐκείνοις δοκεῖ, κατηνέχθησαν ὧδε εἰς πλάσμα τὸ πήλινον, ἵνα δουλεύσωσι τῷ ταύτης τῆς κτίσεως δημιουργῷ Ἰαλδαβαώθ, θεῷ πυρίνῳ, ἀριθμὸν τετάρτῳ· οὕτως
Kai hoti houtos, toutestin ho toioutos Hermēs, psychagōgos, phēsin, esti kai psychopompos kai psychōn aitios, oude tous poiētas tōn ethnōn lanthanei legontas houtōs; Hermēs de psychas Kyllēnios exekaleito andrōn mnēstērōn, ou tōn Pēnelopēs, phēsin, ō kakodaimones, mnēstērōn, alla tōn exypnismenōn kai anemnēsmenōn, ex hoiēs timēs [te] kai [hossou] mēkeos olbou, toutestin apo tou makariou anōthen anthrōpou ē archanthrōpou ē Adamantos, hōs ekeinois dokei, katēnechthēsan hōde eis plasma to pēlinon, hina douleusōsi tǭ tautēs tēs ktiseōs dēmiourgǭ Ialdabaōth, theǭ pyrinǭ, arithmon tetartǭ; houtōs
And that this one, that is, such a Hermes, is the leader and escort of souls and the cause of souls, he says, does not escape even the poets of the nations, who say thus: "Cyllenian Hermes called forth the souls of the suitor men"; not of Penelope's suitors, he says, O wretches, but of those who have been awakened and have remembered "from what honor and how great a length of bliss," that is, from the blessed Man above, or Primal Man, or Adamas, as they think, they were brought down here into the clay mold, so as to serve the fashioner of this creation, Ialdabaoth, a fiery god, fourth in number; for so
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Summary: They read Homer's Hermes leading the suitors' souls as the call to souls fallen from the heavenly Man.
- The quotations are Homer, Odyssey 24.1–2, and Empedocles, fragment 119 (Diels–Kranz 31 B119). The pun is on μνηστῆρες "suitors" and μιμνῄσκεσθαι "to remember". Ialdabaoth is the Gnostic name of the Demiurge, the lower maker of the material world.
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Od. 24.1–2 (Homer, Odyssey; quotation); Empedocles, fragment 119 (Empedocles (fragments); quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.30 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 144–146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.31Duncker–Schneidewin, 146
γὰρ τὸν δημιουργὸν καὶ πατέρα τοῦ ἰδικοῦ κόσμου καλοῦσιν· Ἔχε δὲ ῥάβδον μετὰ χερσὶ καλήν, χρυσείην, τῇ τʼ ἀνδρῶν ὄμματα θέλγει ὧν ἐθέλει, τοὺς δʼ αὖτε καὶ ὑπνώοντας ἐγείρει.
gar ton dēmiourgon kai patera tou idikou kosmou kalousin; Eche de rhabdon meta chersi kalēn, chryseiēn, tę̄ tʼ andrōn ommata thelgei hōn ethelei, tous dʼ aute kai hypnōontas egeirei.
they call the fashioner and father of the particular world: "And he held in his hands a fair wand, golden, with which he charms the eyes of men, whomsoever he will, and wakes others again who are sleeping."
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Summary: Homer's description of Hermes' golden wand is quoted.
- The verses are Homer, Odyssey 24.2–4.
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Od. 24.2–4 (Homer, Odyssey; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.31 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.32Duncker–Schneidewin, 146
Οὗτος, φησίν, ἐστὶν ὁ τῆς ζωῆς καὶ τοῦ θανάτου μόνος ἔχων ἐξουσίαν. Περὶ τούτου, φησί, γέγραπται· Ποιμανεῖς αὐτοὺς ἐν ῥάβδῳ σιδηρᾷ. Ὁ δὲ ποιητής, φησί, κοσμῆσαι βουλόμενος τὸ ἀπερινόητον τῆς μακαρίας φύσεως τοῦ λόγου, οὐ σιδηρᾶν, ἀλλὰ χρυσῆν περιέθηκε τὴν ῥάβδον αὐτῷ. Θέλγει δὲ τὰ ὄμματα τῶν νεκρῶν, φησί, τοὺς δʼ αὖτε καὶ ὑπνώοντας ἐγείρει, τοὺς ἐξυπνισμένους καὶ γεγονότας μνηστῆρας.
Houtos, phēsin, estin ho tēs zōēs kai tou thanatou monos echōn exousian. Peri toutou, phēsi, gegraptai; Poimaneis autous en rhabdǭ sidērą. Ho de poiētēs, phēsi, kosmēsai boulomenos to aperinoēton tēs makarias physeōs tou logou, ou sidēran, alla chrysēn periethēke tēn rhabdon autǭ. Thelgei de ta ommata tōn nekrōn, phēsi, tous dʼ aute kai hypnōontas egeirei, tous exypnismenous kai gegonotas mnēstēras.
This, he says, is the one who alone has authority over life and death. About him, he says, it is written: "You will shepherd them with a rod of iron." But the poet, he says, wishing to adorn the incomprehensibility of the blessed nature of the Word, gave him not an iron but a golden rod. He charms the eyes of the dead, he says, "and wakes others again who are sleeping," those who have been awakened and become "suitors."
Ps 2:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 2:27 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: They link Hermes' wand with the Psalm's rod of iron.
- The quotation is Ps 2:9 (cf. Rev 2:27).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): τοὺς δʼ αὖτε καί ὑπνώοντας → τοὺς δʼ αὖτε καὶ ὑπνώοντας.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.32 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-32). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.33Duncker–Schneidewin, 146
Περὶ τούτων, φησίν, ἡ γραφὴ λέγει· Ἔγειραι ὁ καθεύδων καὶ ἐξεγέρθητι, καὶ ἐπιφαύσει σοι ὁ Χριστός. Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός, ὁ ἐν πᾶσι, φησί, τοῖς γενητοῖς υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου κεχαρακτηρισμένος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀχαρακτηρίστου λόγου.
Peri toutōn, phēsin, hē graphē legei; Egeirai ho katheudōn kai exegerthēti, kai epiphausei soi ho Christos. Houtos estin ho Christos, ho en pasi, phēsi, tois genētois huios anthrōpou kecharaktērismenos apo tou acharaktēristou logou.
About these, he says, Scripture says: "Wake up, sleeper, and rise, and Christ will shine on you." This is the Christ, he says, the Son of Man in all things that have come to be, stamped from the unstamped Word.
Eph 5:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They cite "Wake up, sleeper" and say Christ is the Son of Man stamped on all things.
- The quotation is Eph 5:14.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.33 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-33). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Duncker–Schneidewin; made independently of existing English translations.
5.7.34Duncker–Schneidewin, 146
Τοῦτο, φησίν, ἐστὶ τὸ μέγα καὶ ἄρρητον Ἐλευσινίων μυστήριον ὕε κύε· καὶ ὅτι, φησίν, αὐτῷ πάντα ὑποτέτακται, καὶ τοῦτʼ ἐστὶ τὸ εἰρημένον· Εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν· ὡς τὸ τὴν ῥάβδον ἄγει κινήσας ὁ Ἑρμῆς, αἱ δὲ τρίζουσαι ἕπονται αἱ ψυχαὶ συνεχῶς οὕτως, ὡς διὰ τῆς εἰκόνος ὁ ποιητὴς ἐπιδέδειχε λέγων· ὡς δʼ ὅτε νυκτερίδες μυχῷ ἄντρου θεσπεσίοιο τρίζουσαι ποτέονται, ἐπεί κέ τις ἀποπέσῃσιν ὁρμαθοῦ ἐκ πέτρης, ἀνά τʼ ἀλλήλῃσιν ἔχονται. Πέτρης, φησί, τοῦ Ἀδάμαντος λέγει.
Touto, phēsin, esti to mega kai arrēton Eleusiniōn mystērion hye kye; kai hoti, phēsin, autǭ panta hypotetaktai, kai toutʼ esti to eirēmenon; Eis pasan tēn gēn exēlthen ho phthongos autōn; hōs to tēn rhabdon agei kinēsas ho Hermēs, hai de trizousai hepontai hai psychai synechōs houtōs, hōs dia tēs eikonos ho poiētēs epidedeiche legōn; hōs dʼ hote nykterides mychǭ antrou thespesioio trizousai poteontai, epei ke tis apopesę̄sin hormathou ek petrēs, ana tʼ allēlę̄sin echontai. Petrēs, phēsi, tou Adamantos legei.
This, he says, is the great and unspeakable mystery of the Eleusinians: "Rain! Conceive!" And that all things, he says, are subjected to him, and this is what is said: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth"; just as Hermes leads them on, moving his wand, and the souls follow continually squeaking, as the poet has shown through the image, saying: "As when bats in the recess of a wondrous cave fly squeaking, when one falls from the cluster off the rock, and they cling to one another." "Rock," he says, he says of Adamas.
Ps 19:4 (18:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 10:18 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 15:27 (echo, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They link the Eleusinian cry, the Psalm, and Homer's image of souls following Hermes like bats.
- The quotations are Ps 19:4 (18:5 LXX; cf. Rom 10:18) and Homer, Odyssey 24.6–8. "All things subjected to him" echoes 1 Cor 15:27.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (missing breathing and accent in the digital text): κινήσας ο Ἑρμῆς → κινήσας ὁ Ἑρμῆς.
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Od. 24.6–8 (Homer, Odyssey; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.34 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-34). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.35Duncker–Schneidewin, 146
Οὗτος, φησίν, ἐστὶν ὁ Ἀδάμας ὁ λίθος ὁ ἀκρογωνιαῖος εἰς κεφαλὴν γεγενημένος γωνίας, (ἐν κεφαλῇ γὰρ εἶναι τὸν χαρακτηριστικὸν ἐγκέφαλον τὴν οὐσίαν, ἐξ οὗ πᾶσα πατριὰ χαρακτηρίζεται) ὅν, φησίν, ἐντάσσω ἀδάμαντα εἰς τὰ θεμέλια Σιών· ἀλληγορῶν, φησί, τὸ πλάσμα τοῦ ἀνθρώπου λέγει.
Houtos, phēsin, estin ho Adamas ho lithos ho akrogōniaios eis kephalēn gegenēmenos gōnias, (en kephalę̄ gar einai ton charaktēristikon enkephalon tēn ousian, ex hou pasa patria charaktērizetai) hon, phēsin, entassō adamanta eis ta themelia Siōn; allēgorōn, phēsi, to plasma tou anthrōpou legei.
This, he says, is Adamas, the cornerstone that has become the head of the corner (for in the head is the brain, the substance that stamps, from which every fatherhood is stamped), whom, he says, "I set as an adamant into the foundations of Zion"; allegorically, he says, he means the molded form of man.
Ps 118:22 (117:22 LXX) (allusion, high confidence) · Isa 28:16 (quotation, medium confidence) · Eph 3:15 (echo, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They identify Adamas with the cornerstone of the Psalms and Isaiah.
- The allusions are Ps 118:22 (117:22 LXX), Isa 28:16 (quoted freely, with "adamant" for "stone"), and Eph 3:15.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.35 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-35). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.36Duncker–Schneidewin, 146–148
Ὁ δὲ ἐντασσόμενος ἀδάμας ἐστὶν... ὀδόντες, ὡς Ὅμηρος λέγει ἕρκος ὀδόντων, τουτέστι τεῖχος καὶ χαράκωμα, ἐν ᾧ ἐστὶν ὁ ἔσω ἄνθρωπος, ἐκεῖσε ἀποπεπτωκὼς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀρχανθρώπου ἄνωθεν Ἀδάμαντος, ὁ τμηθεὶς ἄνευ χειρῶν τεμνουσῶν καὶ κατενηνεγμένος εἰς τὸ πλάσμα τῆς λήθης, τὸ χοϊκόν, τὸ ὀστράκινον·
Ho de entassomenos adamas estin... odontes, hōs Homēros legei herkos odontōn, toutesti teichos kai charakōma, en hǭ estin ho esō anthrōpos, ekeise apopeptōkōs apo tou archanthrōpou anōthen Adamantos, ho tmētheis aneu cheirōn temnousōn kai katenēnegmenos eis to plasma tēs lēthēs, to choïkon, to ostrakinon;
And the adamant that is set in is … the teeth, as Homer says, "the fence of the teeth," that is, a wall and palisade, in which is the inner man, fallen down there from the Primal Man above, Adamas, the one "cut without hands cutting" and brought down into the mold of forgetfulness, the earthly, the earthen.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Dan 2:34 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 7:22 (echo, medium confidence) · 2 Cor 4:7 (echo, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Naassenes say the inner man, cut from Adamas, fell into the earthly body.
- The text has a gap, marked "…". "The fence of the teeth" is a Homeric formula (e.g. Iliad 4.350); "cut without hands" alludes to Dan 2:34, 45; "the inner man" to Rom 7:22; "earthen" to 2 Cor 4:7.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): πλάσμα τὴς λήθης → πλάσμα τῆς λήθης.
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Il. 4.350 (Homer, Iliad; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.36 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 146–148; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-36). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.37Duncker–Schneidewin, 148
καὶ φησὶν ὅτι τετριγυῖαι αὐτῷ ἠκολούθουν αἱ ψυχαί, τῷ λόγῳ, ὡς αὗται τετριγυῖαι ἅμʼ ἦσαν, ἦρχε δʼ ἄρα σφιν, (τουτέστιν ἡγεῖτο, ) Ἑρμείας ἀκάκητα κατʼ εὐρώεντα κέλευθα, τουτέστι, φησίν, εἰς τὰ πάσης κακίας ἀπηλλαγμένα αἰώνια χωρία. Ποῦ γὰρ, φησίν, ἦλθον; Πὰρ δʼ ἴσαν ὠκεανοῦ τε ῥοὰς καὶ λευκάδα πέτρην, ἠδὲ παρʼ ἠελίοιο πύλας καὶ δῆμον ὀνείρων.
kai phēsin hoti tetriguiai autǭ ēkolouthoun hai psychai, tǭ logǭ, hōs hautai tetriguiai hamʼ ēsan, ērche dʼ ara sphin, (toutestin hēgeito, ) Hermeias akakēta katʼ eurōenta keleutha, toutesti, phēsin, eis ta pasēs kakias apēllagmena aiōnia chōria. Pou gar, phēsin, ēlthon? Par dʼ isan ōkeanou te rhoas kai leukada petrēn, ēde parʼ ēelioio pylas kai dēmon oneirōn.
And he says that the souls followed him squeaking, the Word: "So these went together squeaking, and Hermes the helper led them" (that is, guided them) "down the dank ways," that is, he says, into the eternal places freed from all evil. For where, he says, did they go? "They went past the streams of Ocean and the White Rock, and past the gates of the Sun and the land of dreams."
Notes and citation
Summary: Homer's souls following Hermes past Ocean are read as souls led to the eternal realm.
- The verses are Homer, Odyssey 24.9–12.
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Od. 24.9–12 (Homer, Odyssey; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.37 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 148; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-37). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.38Duncker–Schneidewin, 148
Οὗτος, φησίν ἐστὶν ὠκεανὸς γένεσίς τε θεῶν, γένεσίς τʼ ἀνθρώπων, ἐκ παλιρροίας στρεφόμενος αἰεί, ποτὲ ἄνω ποτὲ κάτω. Ἀλλʼ ὅταν, φησί, κάτω ῥέῃ ὁ ὠκεανός, γένεσις ἐστὶν ἀνθρώπων, ὅταν δὲ ἄνω ἐπὶ τὸ τεῖχος καὶ τὸ χαράκωμα καὶ τὴν Λευκάδα πέτρην, γένεσίς ἐστι θεῶν.
Houtos, phēsin estin ōkeanos genesis te theōn, genesis tʼ anthrōpōn, ek palirroias strephomenos aiei, pote anō pote katō. Allʼ hotan, phēsi, katō rheę̄ ho ōkeanos, genesis estin anthrōpōn, hotan de anō epi to teichos kai to charakōma kai tēn Leukada petrēn, genesis esti theōn.
This, he says, is Ocean, "origin of gods and origin of men," ever turning in ebb and flow, now up and now down. But when Ocean flows down, he says, it is the generation of men; and when up, to the wall and palisade and the White Rock, it is the generation of gods.
Notes and citation
Summary: Ocean flowing down begets men, flowing up begets gods.
- The phrase echoes Homer, Iliad 14.201 and 14.246.
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Il. 14.201 (Homer, Iliad; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.38 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 148; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-38). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.39Duncker–Schneidewin, 148
Τοῦτό ἐστι, φησί, τὸ γεγραμμένον· ἐγὼ εἶπα· θεοί ἐστε καὶ υἱοὶ ὑψίστου πάντες, ἐὰν ἀπὸ τῆς Αἰγύπτου φυγεῖν σπεύδητε καὶ γένησθε πέραν τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης εἰς τὴν ἔρημον, τουτέστιν ἀπὸ τῆς κάτω μίξεως ἐπὶ τὴν ἄνω Ἱερουσαλήμ, ἥτις ἐστὶ μήτηρ ζώντων, ἐὰν δὲ πάλιν ἐπιστραφῆτε ἐπὶ τὴν Αἴγυπτον, τουτέστιν ἐπὶ τὴν κάτω μῖξιν, ὡς ἄνθρωποι ἀποθνήσκετε·
Touto esti, phēsi, to gegrammenon; egō eipa; theoi este kai huioi hypsistou pantes, ean apo tēs Aigyptou phygein speudēte kai genēsthe peran tēs Erythras thalassēs eis tēn erēmon, toutestin apo tēs katō mixeōs epi tēn anō Hierousalēm, hētis esti mētēr zōntōn, ean de palin epistraphēte epi tēn Aigypton, toutestin epi tēn katō mixin, hōs anthrōpoi apothnēskete;
This, he says, is what is written: "I said, You are gods and all sons of the Most High," if you hasten to flee from Egypt and get beyond the Red Sea into the wilderness, that is, from the intercourse below to the Jerusalem above, which is the mother of the living; but if you turn back again to Egypt, that is, to the intercourse below, "you die like men."
Ps 82:6 (81:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 82:7 (81:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 4:26 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 14:22 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They read "you are gods" as promised to those who flee bodily union, and "you die like men" to those who return to it.
- The quotations are Ps 82:6–7 (81:6–7 LXX); the allusions are the Exodus and Gal 4:26.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.39 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 148; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-39). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.40Duncker–Schneidewin, 148
θνητὴ γάρ, φησί, πᾶσα ἡ κάτω γένεσις, ἀθάνατος δὲ ἡ ἄνω γεννωμένη· γεννᾶται γὰρ ἐξ ὕδατος μόνου καὶ πνεύματος, πνευματικός, οὐ σαρκικός· ὁ δὲ κάτω σαρκικός· τουτέστι, φησί, τὸ γεγραμμένον· Τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς σάρξ ἐστι, καὶ τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος πνεῦμα ἐστίν. Αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ κατʼ αὐτοὺς πνευματικὴ γένεσις.
thnētē gar, phēsi, pasa hē katō genesis, athanatos de hē anō gennōmenē; gennatai gar ex hydatos monou kai pneumatos, pneumatikos, ou sarkikos; ho de katō sarkikos; toutesti, phēsi, to gegrammenon; To gegennēmenon ek tēs sarkos sarx esti, kai to gegennēmenon ek tou pneumatos pneuma estin. Hautē estin hē katʼ autous pneumatikē genesis.
For all generation below, he says, is mortal, but what is begotten above is immortal; for it is begotten of water alone and spirit, spiritual, not fleshly; but the one below is fleshly. This, he says, is what is written: "What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit." This is, according to them, spiritual generation.
John 3:5 (allusion, high confidence) · John 3:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They distinguish mortal fleshly birth from immortal spiritual birth of water and spirit.
- The allusion and quotation are John 3:5–6.
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.40 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 148; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-40). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.7.41Duncker–Schneidewin, 148–150
Οὗτος, φησίν, ἐστὶν ὁ μέγας Ἰορδάνης, ὃν κάτω ῥέοντα καὶ κωλύοντα ἐξελθεῖν τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου (ἤγουν ἐκ τῆς κάτω μίξεως· Αἴγυπτος γάρ ἐστι τὸ σῶμα κατʼ αὐτοὺς) ἀνέστειλεν Ἰησοῦς καὶ ἐποίησεν ἄνω ῥέειν.
Houtos, phēsin, estin ho megas Iordanēs, hon katō rheonta kai kōlyonta exelthein tous huious Israēl ek gēs Aigyptou (ēgoun ek tēs katō mixeōs; Aigyptos gar esti to sōma katʼ autous) anesteilen Iēsous kai epoiēsen anō rheein.
This, he says, is the great Jordan, which, flowing down and preventing the sons of Israel from going out of the land of Egypt (that is, out of the intercourse below; for Egypt, according to them, is the body), Jesus held back and made to flow upward.
Josh 3:16 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They read Joshua's parting of the Jordan as Jesus reversing the flow of generation.
- The allusion is Josh 3:13–16; Joshua and Jesus have the same name in Greek (Ἰησοῦς).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): ὅν κάτω → ὃν κάτω.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.41 (Duncker–Schneidewin, 148–150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5-7-1/#p-5-7-41). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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