Refutation of All Heresies 5.18.1

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, 198

Ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ καὶ τὴν Περατικὴν αἵρεσιν νομίζω φανερῶς ἐκτεθεῖσθαι καὶ διὰ πολλῶν ἔκδηλον πεποιηκέναι διαλαθοῦσαν καὶ πάντα πᾶσι συντιθεμένην, ἀποκρύπτουσάν τε τὸν ἴδιον ἰόν, δοκεῖ μηδὲν περαιτέρω τούτων κατηγορεῖν, ἱκανῶν ὄντων πρὸς κατηγορίαν αὐτῶν τῶν ὑπʼ αὐτῶν δογματιζομένων.

English · Claude translation

But since I think I have set out the Peratic heresy clearly and have made plain, by many proofs, a heresy that had escaped notice, that mixes everything with everything and hides its own poison, it seems best to bring no further charges against them, since the doctrines they themselves teach are sufficient to accuse them.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 198 · 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

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text): ὑπʼ αἰτῶν → ὑπʼ αὐτῶν.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/18/1/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/18/1/).