Refutation of All Heresies 6.44.3

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: This lettered figure, called Man, is the source of all speech; Marcus is told to hear the Word from Truth's mouth.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 310

Καὶ καλεῖ τὸ στοιχεῖον τοῦτο ἄνθρωπον· εἶναί τε πηγήν φησι παντὸς λόγου, καὶ ἀρχὴν πάσης φωνῆς, καὶ παντὸς ἀρρήτου ῥῆσιν, καὶ τῆς σιωπωμένης σιγῆς στόμα. Καὶ τοῦτο τὸ σῶμα αὐτῆς. Σὺ δὲ μετάρσιον ἐγείρας τῆς διανοίας νόημα, τὸν [αὐτο]γεννήτορα καὶ πατροδότορα λόγον ἀπὸ στομάτων ἀληθείας ἄκουε.

English · Claude translation

And he calls this element Man, and says that it is the spring of every word, the beginning of every voice, the utterance of all that is ineffable, and the mouth of silent Silence. “And this is her body. But you, raising aloft the thought of your mind, hear from the mouths of Truth the self-begetting and Father-giving Word.”

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 310 · 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. 6.44.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/44/3/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.44.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/44/3/).