Refutation of All Heresies 5.26.2

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, 218

Καλεῖται δὲ Ἐδὲμ αὕτη ἡ κόρη καὶ Ἰσραήλ. Αὗται, φησίν, αἱ ἀρχαὶ τῶν ὅλων, ῥίζαι καὶ πηγαί, ἀφʼ ὧν τὰ πάντα ἐγένετο· ἄλλο δὲ ἦν οὐδέν. Ἰδὼν οὖν ὁ πατὴρ τὴν μιξοπάρθενον ἐκείνην ἀπρόγνωστος ὢν τὴν Ἐδέμ, ἦλθεν εἰς ἐπιθυμίαν αὐτῆς· Ἐλωεὶμ δὲ, φησίν, καλεῖται οὗτος ὁ πατήρ· οὐδὲν δʼ ἧττον ἐπεθύμησε καὶ ἡ Ἐδὲμ τοῦ Ἐλωείμ, καὶ συνήγαγεν αὐτοὺς ἡ ἐπιθυμία εἰς μίαν φιλίας εὔνοιαν.

English · Claude translation

This girl is called Eden and Israel. “These,” he says, “are the principles of all things, roots and springs, from which all things came to be; and there was nothing else. The Father, then, being without foreknowledge, saw that half-maiden Eden and came to desire her; this Father,” he says, “is called Elohim. And no less did Eden desire Elohim, and desire brought them together into one affection of love.”

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 218 · 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

Elohim is the Hebrew word for God.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong diacritic in the digital text): ῥϊζαι → ῥίζαι.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/2/).