Refutation of All Heresies 5.26.22

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, 224

Πάλιν ἐλθὼν οὖν ὁ Βαροὺχ ἔστη ἐν μέσῳ τῶν ἀγγέλων τῆς Ἐδέμ, τουτέστιν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ παραδείσου (παράδεισος γὰρ οἱ ἄγγελοι, ὧν μέσος ἔστη), καὶ παρήγγειλε τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ, ἀπὸ παντὸς ξύλου τοῦ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ βρώσει φαγεῖν, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ [ξύλου τοῦ] γινώσκειν τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν μὴ φαγεῖν, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ὁ Νάας, τουτέστι τοῖς μὲν ἄλλοις ἀγγέλοις πείθεσθαι τοῖς ἕνδεκα τῆς Ἐδέμ, πάθη μὲν γὰρ ἔχουσιν οἱ ἕνδεκα, παρανομίαν δὲ οὐκ ἔχουσιν· ὁ δὲ Νάας παρανομίαν ἔσχε· προσῆλθε γὰρ τῇ

English · Claude translation

Baruch, then, came and stood in the middle of the angels of Eden, that is, in the middle of paradise (for the angels, in the middle of whom he stood, are paradise), and commanded the man to eat for food of every tree in paradise, but not to eat of the [tree of] knowing good and evil, which is Naas; that is, to obey the other eleven angels of Eden, for the eleven have passions but not lawlessness, whereas Naas had lawlessness. For he approached

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 224 · 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.

Scripture

Gen 2:16–17 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

The bracketed words are the editor's supplement.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing accent in the digital text): καὶ το πονηρὸν → καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/22/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/22/).