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Refutation of All Heresies 6.51.5

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” names the human of the economy, who, receiving the heavenly Man, became all the Aeons.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 330

Εἶναι οὖν τὸν Ἰησοῦν ὄνομα μὲν τοῦ ἐκ τῆς οἰκονομίας ἀνθρώπου λέγει, τεθεῖσθαι δὲ ἐξομοίωσιν καὶ μόρφωσιν τοῦ μέλλοντος εἰς αὐτὸν κατέρχεσθαι ἀνθρώπου, ὃν χωρήσαντα ἐσχηκέναι αὐτόν, αὐτόν τε εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, αὐτὸν τὸν λόγον, αὐτὸν τὸν πατέρα καὶ [τὸν] ἄρρητον καὶ τὴν σιγὴν καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ζωήν.

English · Claude translation

He says, then, that Jesus is the name of the man of the economy, and that it was given as the likeness and form of the Man who was about to come down into him; having received him, he had him; and he himself was the Man, himself the Word, himself the Father and the Ineffable and Silence and Truth and Church and Life.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 330 · 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, Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): Εἶναι οὗν → Εἶναι οὖν.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.51.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/51/5/).

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