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Refutation of All Heresies 6.51.1

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: Marcus maps the annunciation onto the second tetrad: Gabriel, Holy Spirit, power of the Most High, and the Virgin.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 328

Περὶ δὲ τῆς τούτου δημιουργίας οὕτως λέγει· Ἀπὸ τῆς τετράδος τῆς δευτέρας δυνάμεις ἀπορρυείσας δεδημιουργηκέναι τὸν ἐπὶ γῆς φανέντα Ἰησοῦν, καὶ τοῦ λόγου τὸν τόπον ἀναπεπληρωκέναι τὸν ἄγγελον Γαβριήλ, τῆς δὲ ζωῆς τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, τοῦ δὲ ἀνθρώπου τὴν τοῦ ὑψίστου δύναμιν, τῆς δὲ ἐκκλησίας τὴν παρθένον. Οὕτως ὁ κατʼ οἰκονομίαν διὰ τῆς Μαρίας γενεσιουργεῖται παρʼ αὐτῷ ἄνθρωπος.

English · Claude translation

About his fashioning he speaks thus: that powers that flowed from the second tetrad fashioned the Jesus who appeared on earth; the angel Gabriel filled the place of the Word, the Holy Spirit that of Life, the power of the Most High that of Man, and the Virgin that of the Church. So, according to him, the man of the economy is brought into being through Mary.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 328 · 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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  • Digital text corrected (missing accent in the digital text): Ἀπο τῆς → Ἀπὸ τῆς.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.51.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/51/1/).

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