Refutation of All Heresies 6.40.1

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: Marcus had a woman give thanks over a small cup and then poured it back and forth into a larger one.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 298

Ὃς καὶ ποτήριον μικρότερον κιρνῶν ἐδίδου γυναικὶ εὐχαριστεῖν, αὐτὸς παρεστὼς καὶ ἕτερον κρατῶν ἐκείνου μεῖζον κενόν, καὶ εὐχαριστησάσης τῆς ἀπατωμένης δεξάμενος ἐπέχει εἰς τὸν μείζω, καὶ πολλάκις ἀντεπιχέων ἕτερον εἰς ἕτερον ἐπέλεγεν οὕτως· Ἡ

English · Claude translation

He would also mix a smaller cup and give it to a woman to give thanks over, while he stood by holding another, empty cup larger than that; and when the deceived woman had given thanks, he took it and poured it into the larger one, and pouring back and forth many times from one into the other, he said over it thus: “May the

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 298 · 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, Eucharist

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.40.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/40/1/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.40.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/40/1/).