Refutation of All Heresies 5.26.7

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: Elohim's angels made man from Eden's human upper part, and the beasts came from her lower part.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 220

Γενομένου δέ, φησί, τοῦ παραδείσου ἐξ εὐαρεστήσεως κοινῆς Ἐλωεὶμ καὶ Ἐδέμ, οἱ τοῦ Ἐλωεὶμ ἄγγελοι λαβόντες ἀπὸ τῆς καλλίστης γῆς, τουτέστιν οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ θηριώδους μέρους τῆς Ἐδέμ, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπὲρ βουβῶνα ἀνθρωποειδῶν καὶ ἡμέρων χωρίων τῆς γῆς ποιοῦσι τὸν ἄνθρωπον. Ἐκ δὲ τῶν θηριωδῶν μερῶν, φησί, γίνονται τὰ θηρία καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ζῷα.

English · Claude translation

“When paradise had come to be,” he says, “from the common good pleasure of Elohim and Eden, the angels of Elohim took from the finest earth, that is, not from the beastly part of Eden but from the human-shaped and gentle regions of the earth above the groin, and they made man. And from the beastly parts,” he says, “came the wild beasts and the other animals.”

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 220 · 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 2:7 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/7/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/7/).