Refutation of All Heresies 6.16.2

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, 246–248

Πιστὸς δὲ ἀνὴρ καὶ ἀγαπώμενος ὑπὸ τῆς φαρμακίδος ἐκείνης διὰ τὸν γαλακτώδη καὶ θεῖον ἐκεῖνον καρπόν, φησίν, εὑρίσκεται. Λευΐτικὸν ὁμοίως τὸ τρίτον βιβλίον, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἡ ὄσφρησις ἢ ἀναπνοή. Θυσιῶν γάρ ἐστι καὶ προσφορῶν ὅλον ἐκεῖνο τὸ βιβλίον. Ὅπου δέ ἐστι θυσία, ὀσμή τις εὐωδίας ἀπὸ τῆς θυσίας διὰ τῶν θυμιαμάτων γίνεται· περὶ ἣν εὐωδίαν ὄσφρησιν εἶναι δ[οκιμαστή]ριον.

English · Claude translation

And a faithful man, beloved by that sorceress, he is found,” he says, “because of that milky and divine fruit.” Likewise Leviticus, the third book, is smell or breathing. For that whole book is about sacrifices and offerings; and where there is sacrifice, a fragrant smell arises from the sacrifice through the incense; and smell is the test of that fragrance.

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 246–248 · 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.

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text): ἀνοπνοή → ἀναπνοή.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/16/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/16/2/).