Sophia Scriptura

Refutation of All Heresies 6.35.4

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: Jesus, the new man, received his body from the Demiurge and his substance from Sophia, a heavenly Word born through Mary.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 286

Γεγέννηται γὰρ οὐκ ἀπὸ ὑψίστου μόνου, ὥσπερ οἱ κατὰ τὸν Ἀδὰμ κτισθέντες ἀπὸ μόνου ἐκτίσθησαν τοῦ ὑψίστου, τουτέστι [τῆς σοφίας καὶ] τοῦ δημιουργοῦ· ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς ὁ καινὸς ἄνθρωπος ἀπὸ πνεύματος ἁγίου, τουτέστι τῆς σοφίας καὶ τοῦ δημιουργοῦ, ἵνα τὴν μὲν πλάσιν καὶ κατασκευὴν τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ ὁ δημιουργὸς καταρτίσῃ, τὴν δὲ οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ τὸ πνεῦμα παράσχῃ τὸ ἄγιον, καὶ γένηται λόγος ἐπουράνιος ἀπὸ τῆς ὀγδοάδος γεννηθεὶς διὰ Μαρίας.

English · Claude translation

For he was born not from the Most High alone, as those created after Adam were created from the Most High alone, that is, [from Sophia and] from the Demiurge; but Jesus, the new man, was born from the Holy Spirit, that is, from Sophia, and from the Demiurge, so that the Demiurge might complete the fashioning and furnishing of his body, and the Holy Spirit might supply his substance, and he might become a heavenly Word born from the Ogdoad through Mary.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 286 · 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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Topics
Heresy, Christology

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Translation notes

  • The bracketed words contradict the argument and are probably an intrusion in the text.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.35.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/35/4/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.35.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/35/4/).

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