Refutation of All Heresies 6.32.5

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 Fruit healed Sophia's four passions but saw that, being eternal, they could not simply be destroyed.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 278–280

Γενόμενος οὖν ἔξω τοῦ πληρώματος καρπὸς καὶ εὑρὼν αὐτὴν ἐν πάθεσι τοῖς πρώτοις τέτρασι, καὶ φόβῳ καὶ λύπῃ καὶ ἀπορίᾳ καὶ δεήσει, διωρθώσατο τὰ πάθη αὐτῆς, διορθούμενος δὲ ἑώρα, ὅτι ἀπολέσθαι αὐτὰ αἰώνια ὄντα καὶ τῆς σοφίας ἴδια οὐ καλόν, οὔτε ἐν πάθεσιν εἶναι τὴν σοφίαν τοιούτοις, ἐν φόβῳ καὶ λύπῃ, ἱκετείᾳ, ἀπορίᾳ.

English · Claude translation

The Fruit, then, having come outside the Pleroma and found her in the first four passions, fear, grief, perplexity, and supplication, corrected her passions; and in correcting them he saw that it was not good for them to be destroyed, since they were eternal and Sophia's own, nor for Sophia to remain in such passions, in fear and grief, entreaty, and perplexity.

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 278–280 · 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

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.32.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/32/5/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.32.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/32/5/).