Refutation of All Heresies 6.24.2

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, 262

συμβεβηκότα γένη ἀσώματα ἐννέα, ἃ χωρὶς εἶναι τῆς οὐσίας οὐ δύναται, ποιὸν καὶ ποσὸν καὶ πρός τι καὶ ποῦ καὶ πότε καὶ κεῖσθαι καὶ ἔχειν καὶ ποιεῖν καὶ πάσχειν. Ἔστιν οὖν ἐννέα τὰ συμβεβηκότα τῇ οὐσίᾳ, οἷς ἀριθμουμένη συνέχει τὸν τέλειον ἀριθμόν, τὸν ῑ.

English · Claude translation

and the incorporeal genera of accidents are nine, which cannot exist apart from substance: quality, quantity, relation, where, when, position, possession, acting, and being acted upon. These, then, are the nine accidents of substance; counted together with them, substance contains the perfect number, the iota.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 262 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Aristotle, Cat. 4 (Aristotle (works)) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The nine accidents are Aristotle's categories (Categories 4).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text; wrong breathing in the digital text): Ἔστιν οὗν ἐννέα → Ἔστιν οὖν ἐννέα; οἶς ἀριθμουμένη → οἷς ἀριθμουμένη.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/24/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/24/2/).