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Refutation of All Heresies 6.35.2

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 prophets knew nothing of the Valentinian mysteries; the psychic man had a veil over his heart until the time of revelation.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 284

Οὐδεὶς γὰρ, φησί, τῶν προφητῶν εἴρηκε περὶ τούτων οὐδὲν, ὧν ἡμεῖς λέγομεν· ἠγνοεῖτο γάρ· πάντα... ἅτε δὴ ἀπὸ μόνου τοῦ δημιουργοῦ λελαλημένα. Ὅτε οὖν τέλος ἔλαβεν ἡ κτίσις, καὶ ἔδει λοιπὸν γενέσθαι τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν τῶν υἱῶν τοῦ θεοῦ, τουτέστι τοῦ δημιουργοῦ, τὴν ἐγκεκαλυμμένην, ἥν, φησίν, ἐγκεκάλυπτο ὁ ψυχικὸς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ εἶχε κάλυμμα ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν·

English · Claude translation

“For none of the prophets,” he says, “said anything about the things of which we speak; for they were unknown; all … as having been spoken by the Demiurge alone. When, then, the creation had reached its end, and it remained for the revelation of the sons of God, that is, of the Demiurge, to take place, the revelation that had been veiled, with which, he says, the psychic man had been veiled, and he had a veil over his heart,

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Duncker–Schneidewin, 284 · 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
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As printed in Duncker–Schneidewin. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.
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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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.35.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/35/2/).

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