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Refutation of All Heresies 6.52.7

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: The letter values from alpha to eta (without six) total thirty, and three times thirty is ninety.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 334

Ἀρξάμενος γάρ τις ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄλφα ἕως τοῦ ἦτα, τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν στοιχείων, ὑπεξαιρούμενος τὸν ἐπίσημον, εὑρήσει [τὸν] τριάκοντα ἀριθμόν. Ἐπεὶ οὗν ἐκ τῶν τριῶν δυνάμεων ἥνωται ὁ τῶν τριάκοντα ἀριθμός, [τρὶς] αὐτὸς γενόμενος τὰ ἐνενήκοντα ἐποίησε· τρὶς γὰρ τριάκοντα ἐνενήκοντα.

English · Claude translation

For anyone who begins from alpha and goes up to eta, leaving out the episemon, will find the number of the letters to be thirty. Since, then, the number thirty is united from the three powers, becoming [three times] itself it made ninety; for three times thirty is ninety.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 334 · 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

Notes

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  • The bracketed word is the editor's supplement.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.52.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/52/7/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.52.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/52/7/).

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