Sophia Scriptura

Refutation of All Heresies 6.34.3

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: Like the Pythagoreans, the Valentinians subdivide the Pleroma and the Ogdoad.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 282

Ὡς γὰρ οἱ Πυθαγορικοὶ διεῖλον εἰς δώδεκα καὶ τριάκοντα καὶ ἑξήκοντα [καὶ λεπτὰ λέπτῶν εἰσὶν ἐκείνοις, δεδήλωται]· οὕτως οὗτοι τὰ ἐντὸς πληρώματος ὑποδιαιροῦσιν. Ὑποδιῄρηται δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐν τῇ ὀγδοάδι, καὶ προβεβλήκασιν ἡ σοφία, ἥτις ἐστὶ μήτηρ πάντων τῶν ζώντων κατʼ αὐτούς, καὶ ὁ κοινὸς τοῦ πληρώματος καρπὸς (??)

English · Claude translation

For as the Pythagoreans divided into twelve and thirty and sixty [and they have minutes of minutes, as has been shown], so these subdivide the things within the Pleroma. The things in the Ogdoad have also been subdivided, and Sophia, who according to them is the mother of all the living, and the common fruit of the Pleroma have emitted …

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 282 · 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.
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Notes

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  • The bracketed words are probably an intrusion in the text; the end of the section is unreadable.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.34.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/34/3/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.34.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/34/3/).

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