Refutation of All Heresies 7.22.12

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: When the second Sonship came near the non-existent God, it could not take the Spirit with it, since the Spirit was not of its substance.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 362

Ἀναφερομένη γὰρ ὑπὸ τοῦ πνεύματος ἡ υἱότης ὡς ὑπὸ πτεροῦ ἀναφέρει τὸ πτερόν, τουτέστι τὸ πνεῦμα, καὶ πλησίον γενομένη τῆς λεπτομεροῦς υἱότητος καὶ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ οὐκ ὄντος καὶ δημιουργήσαντος ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων, ἔχειν μὲν αὐτὸ μετʼ αὐτῆς οὐκ ἠδύνατο, ἦν γὰρ οὐχ ὁμοούσιον, οὐδὲ φύσιν εἶχε μετὰ τῆς υἱότητος·

English · Claude translation

For the Sonship, carried up by the Spirit as by a wing, carries up the wing, that is, the Spirit; and when it came near the fine Sonship and the non-existent God who created out of things that are not, it could not keep the Spirit with itself; for it was not of the same substance, nor did it have a nature in common with the Sonship;

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Duncker–Schneidewin, 362 · 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

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As printed in Duncker–Schneidewin. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

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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.

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Heresy

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Hippolytus, Haer. 7.22.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/22/12/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 7.22.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/22/12/).

Refutation of All Heresies 7.22.12

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 362

English · Claude translation

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