Refutation of All Heresies 5.26.29

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: Baruch comes to the twelve-year-old Jesus, a shepherd boy in Nazareth, and tells him the whole story.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 226–228

Τὸ δὲ τελευταῖον ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις Ἡρώδου τοῦ βασιλέως πέμπεται ὁ Βαρούχ, καταπεμφθεὶς πάλιν ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἐλωείμ, καὶ ἐλθὼν εἰς Ναζαρὲτ εὗρε τὸν Ἰησοῦν, υἱὸν τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ καὶ Μαρίας, βόσκοντα πρόβατα, παιδάριον δυωδεκαετές, καὶ ἀναγγέλλει αὐτῷ ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς πάντα ὅσα ἐγένετο ἀπὸ τῆς Ἐδὲμ καὶ τοῦ Ἐλωεὶμ καὶ τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα ἐσόμενα, καὶ εἶπε· Πάντες οἱ πρὸ σοῦ προφῆται ὑπεσύρησαν.

English · Claude translation

Last of all, in the days of Herod the king, Baruch is sent, sent down once more by Elohim; and coming to Nazareth he found Jesus, son of Joseph and Mary, a boy of twelve years, feeding sheep, and he announces to him from the beginning everything that had happened from Eden and Elohim and what would be after this, and he said: “All the prophets before you were drawn aside.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 226–228 · 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

Luke 1:26–27 · echo, medium confidence
Luke 2:42 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy, Christology

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.29 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/29/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.29 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/29/).