Refutation of All Heresies 6.9.2

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: Hippolytus will “reteach Simon's parrots” that Simon was no Christ but an ordinary man.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 236

Εἰ δὲ ἔχει τὰ τῆς εἰκόνος ἀκριβῶς, καὶ πέπονθεν ὁ μάγος πάθος τι παραπλήσιον Ἀψέθῳ, ἐπιχειρήσωμεν μεταδιδάσκειν τοῦ Σίμωνος τοὺς ψιττακούς, ὅτι Χριστὸς οὐκ ἦν Σίμων ὁ ἑστώς, στάς, στησόμενος· ἀλλʼ ἄνθρωπος ἦν ἐκ σπέρματος, γέννημα γυναικός, ἐξ αἱμάτων καὶ ἐπιθυμίας σαρκικῆς καθάπερ καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ γεγεννημένος· καὶ ὅτι ταῦθʼ οὕτως ἔχει, προϊόντος τοῦ λόγου ῥᾳδίως ἐπιδείξομεν.

English · Claude translation

And if the comparison holds exactly, and the magician has suffered something like Apsethus, let us try to reteach Simon's parrots that Simon was not the Christ, “he who stands, stood, and will stand,” but a man from seed, offspring of a woman, born of blood and fleshly desire like the rest; and that this is so we will easily show as the argument proceeds.

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Duncker–Schneidewin, 236 · 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.

Scripture

John 1:13 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/9/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/9/2/).

Refutation of All Heresies 6.9.2

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 236

English · Claude translation

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