Refutation of All Heresies 6.24.3

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

Διόπερ διῃρημένου τοῦ παντός, ὡς εἴπομεν, εἰς νοητὸν καὶ αἰσθητὸν κόσμον, ἔχομεν καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ νοητοῦ τὸν λόγον, ἵνα τῷ λόγῳ τὴν τῶν νοητῶν καὶ ἀσωμάτων καὶ θείων ἐποπτεύωμεν οὐσίαν, αἰσθήσεις δὲ, φησίν, ἔχομεν πέντε, ὄσφρησιν, ὅρασιν, ἀκοήν, γεῦσιν καὶ ἁφήν, ἐν οἷς τῶν αἰσθητῶν ἐρχόμεθα εἰς γνῶσιν· καὶ οὕτω, φησίν, ἐστὶ διῃρημένος ὁ αἰσθητὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ νοητοῦ κόσμου. Καὶ ὅτι ἔχομεν γνώσεως ὄργανον πρὸς ἑκάτερον αὐτῶν, ἐντεῦθεν κατανοῶμεν.

English · Claude translation

Therefore, since the universe is divided, as we said, into an intelligible and a sensible world, we too have reason from the intelligible world, so that by reason we may contemplate the substance of intelligible, incorporeal, and divine things; and we have, he says, five senses, smell, sight, hearing, taste, and touch, by which we come to knowledge of sensible things. And so, he says, the sensible world is divided from the intelligible. And that we have an instrument of knowledge for each of them, we perceive from the following.

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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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing iota subscript in the digital text; unread letters in the digital text; the reading is certain from context; wrong diacritic in the digital text): τῷ λόγω → τῷ λόγῳ; φ(??)ίν → φησίν; Καἴ ὅτι → Καὶ ὅτι.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.24.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/24/3/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.24.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/24/3/).