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Refutation of All Heresies 5.8.37

Hippolytus of Rome · Refutation of All Heresies · ca. 222–235 · Rome · Read in context

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: They read Rachel's weeping and Jeremiah's lament as grief over fleshly generation.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 162

Διὰ τοῦτο, φησίν, ἔκλαιε Ῥαχὴλ τὰ τέκνα καὶ οὐκ ἤθελε, φησί, παρακαλεῖσθαι κλαίουσα ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς· ᾔδει γάρ, φησίν, ὅτι οὐκ εἰσί. Θρηνεῖ δὲ καὶ Ἱερεμίας τὴν κάτω Ἱερουσαλήμ, οὐ τὴν ἐν Φοινίκῃ πόλιν, ἀλλὰ τὴν κάτω γένεσιν τὴν φθαρτήν· ἔγνω γάρ, φησί, καὶ Ἱερεμίας τὸν τέλειον ἄνθρωπον, τὸν ἀναγεννώμενον ἐξ ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος, οὐ σαρκικόν.

English · Claude translation

For this reason, he says, Rachel wept for her children and would not be comforted, weeping over them; for she knew, he says, that they are not. And Jeremiah too laments the Jerusalem below, not the city in Phoenicia but the perishable generation below; for Jeremiah too, he says, knew the perfect Man, the one reborn of water and spirit, not the fleshly.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 162 · 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.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are Jer 31:15 (38:15 LXX; Matt 2:18), Lamentations, and John 3:5.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.8.37 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/8/37/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.8.37 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/8/37/).

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