Refutation of All Heresies 7.19.2

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: For Aristotle the region below the moon runs by nature without providence, while the region above the moon is governed by providence.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 352

Ὁ κόσμος ἔστι κατὰ Ἀριστοτέλην διῃρημένος εἰς μέρη πλείονα καὶ [διάφορα· καὶ] ἔστι τοῦ κόσμου μέρος τοῦθʼ, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς μέχρι τῆς σελήνης, ἀπρονόητον, ἀκυβέρνητον, ἀρκούμενον μόνῃ τῇ φύσει τῇ ἑαυτοῦ, τὸ δὲ μετὰ τὴν σελήνην ἐν πάσῃ τάξει καὶ προνοίᾳ καὶ κυβερνήσει τεταγμένον, μέχρι τῆς ἐπιφανείας τοῦ οὐρανοῦ·

English · Claude translation

The world, according to Aristotle, is divided into several [different] parts; and one part of the world is this, the region from the earth up to the moon, which is without providence and without governance, content with its own nature alone; while the part beyond the moon, up to the surface of heaven, is ordered in all order, providence, and governance.

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 352 · 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.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 7.19.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/19/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 7.19.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/19/2/).