Refutation of All Heresies 5.26.9

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: Eve likewise has soul from Eden and spirit from Elohim, and the first couple is told to inherit “the earth,” meaning Eden.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 220

Ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἡ Εὔα γέγονε, φησίν, ὥσπερ Μωσεῖ γέγραπται, εἰκὼν καὶ σύμβολον, σφραγὶς εἰς αἰῶνα φυλαχθησομένη τῆς Ἐδέμ· κατετέθη τε ὁμοίως καὶ ἐν τῇ Εὔᾳ τῇ εἰκόνι ψυχὴ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἐδέμ, πνεῦμα δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐλωείμ. Καὶ ἐδόθησαν ἐντολαὶ αὐτοῖς· Αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε καὶ κατακληρονομήσατε τὴν γῆν, τουτέστι τὴν Ἐδέμ, οὕτω γὰρ θέλει γεγράφθαι.

English · Claude translation

“Likewise Eve also came to be,” he says, “as it is written in Moses, an image and symbol, a seal of Eden to be kept forever; and likewise in Eve, the image, soul was deposited from Eden and spirit from Elohim. And commands were given them: ‘Increase and multiply and inherit the earth,’ that is, Eden”; for so he would have it written.

About this passage

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 1:28 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/9/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/9/).