Refutation of All Heresies 6.32.2

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.

Summary: The common fruit is Jesus, the great high priest; meanwhile the outer Sophia feared she would perish without Christ.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 278

Καὶ μόνος ὑπὸ πάντων αἰώνων προβεβλημένος τῷ πατρὶ οὗτος ἐστὶν ὁ καλούμενος παρʼ αὐτοῖς κοινὸς τοῦ πληρώματος καρπός. Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἐντὸς πληρώματος ἦν οὕτως. Καὶ προβέβλητο ὁ κοινὸς τοῦ πληρώματος καρπός, ὁ Ἰησοῦς (τοῦτο γὰρ ὄνομα αὐτῷ), ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς ὁ μέγας. Ἡ δὲ ἔξω τοῦ πληρώματος σοφία, ἐπιζητοῦσα τὸν Χριστὸν τὸν μεμορφωκότα καὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, ἐν φόβῳ μεγάλῳ κατέστη, ὅτι ἀπολεῖται κεχωρισμένου τοῦ μορφώσαντος αὐτὴν καὶ στηρίσαντος.

English · Claude translation

And this one, emitted to the Father by all the Aeons alone, is the one called by them the common fruit of the Pleroma. These things, then, were thus within the Pleroma. And the common fruit of the Pleroma had been emitted, Jesus (for this is his name), the great high priest. But Sophia outside the Pleroma, seeking Christ, who had formed her, and the Holy Spirit, fell into great fear that she would perish, since he who had formed and established her had gone away.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 278 · 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

Heb 4:14 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy, Christology

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.32.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/32/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.32.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/32/2/).