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Refutation of All Heresies 7.20.5

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: Hippolytus says this teaching on names was stolen from Aristotle's Categories, written generations before Basilides.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 356–358

Τοῦτο πρῶτον σφετέρισμα καὶ κλέμμα τοῦ Περιπάτου λαβόντες ἀπατῶσι τὴν ἄνοιαν τῶν συναγελαζομένων ἅμα αὐτοῖς· πολλαῖς γὰρ γενεαῖς Ἀριστοτέλης Βασιλείδου γεγενημένος πρότερος τὸν περὶ τῶν ὁμωνύμων ἐν ταῖς κατηγορίαις καταβέβληται λόγον, ὃν ὡς ἴδιον οὗτοι καὶ καινὸν τινὰ καὶ τῶν Ματθίου λόγων κρυφίων τινα ἕνα διασαφοῦσιν.

English · Claude translation

Having taken this first appropriation and theft from the Peripatos, they deceive the folly of those who herd together with them. For Aristotle, born many generations before Basilides, laid down in the Categories the account of homonyms, which these men explain as their own and new, and as one of the secret words of Matthias.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 356–358 · 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.
Extrabiblical texts
  • Aristotle, Cat. 1a1–12 (Aristotle (works)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Aristotle, Categories 1 (1a1–12).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 7.20.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/20/5/).

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