Sophia Scriptura

Refutation of All Heresies 6.32.4

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: The Aeons sent Jesus, the common fruit, to be Sophia's consort and heal her passions.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 278

Δεομένης οὖν αὐτῆς κατηλέησεν ὁ Χριστὸς ὁ ἐντὸς πληρώματος ὢν καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι πάντες αἰῶνες, καὶ ἐκπέμπουσιν ἔξω τοῦ πληρώματος τὸν κοινὸν τοῦ πληρώματος καρπόν, σύζυγον τῆς ἔξω σοφίας καὶ διορθωτὴν παθῶν, ὧν ἔπαθεν ἐπιζητοῦσα τὸν Χριστόν.

English · Claude translation

As she entreated, then, Christ, who is within the Pleroma, and all the other Aeons took pity on her, and they send out of the Pleroma the common fruit of the Pleroma, as consort of the Sophia outside and corrector of the passions she suffered in seeking Christ.

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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.
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong breathing and accent in the digital text): ὦν ἔπαθεν → ὧν ἔπαθεν.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.32.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/32/4/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.32.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/32/4/).

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