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Refutation of All Heresies 5.13.9

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: The four turning signs mark the seasons; the Peratic leaders Euphrates and Celbes merely renamed the astrologers' doctrines.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 182

Ἐν Κριῷ μὲν γὰρ ἐαρινὴ γίνεται τροπή, ἐν Αἰγοκέρῳ δὲ χειμερινή, ἐν Καρκίνῳ δὲ θερινή, ἐν Ζυγῷ δὲ φθινοπωρινή. Ταῦτα δὲ καὶ τὸν περὶ τούτων λόγον λεπτομερῶς ἐξεθέμεθα ἐν τῇ πρὸ ταύτης βίβλῳ, ὅθεν ἔστι μαθεῖν τὸν φιλομαθῆ, ὡς οἱ τῆς Περατικῆς αἱρέσεως ἀρχηγοὶ Εὐφράτης ὁ Περατικὸς καὶ Κέλβης ὁ Καρύστιος, μεταγαγόντες ὀνόματι μόνον διήλλαξαν, δυνάμει δὲ τὰ ὅμοια ἔθεντο, καὶ αὐτοὶ τῇ τέχνῃ κατακόρως προσέχοντες.

English · Claude translation

For in the Ram occurs the spring turning, in Capricorn the winter, in the Crab the summer, and in the Balance the autumn. These things and the account of them we set out in detail in the book before this one, from which the lover of learning may learn how the leaders of the Peratic heresy, Euphrates the Peratic and Celbes the Carystian, transferring these things, changed them in name only but laid down in substance the same things, being themselves excessively devoted to the art.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 182 · 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.
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The detailed account is in Book 4. On Euphrates and Celbes (elsewhere Acembes or Ademes), founders of the Peratae, nothing is known beyond Hippolytus.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.13.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/13/9/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.13.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/13/9/).

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