Refutation of All Heresies 7.26.6

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.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 372–374

Ἐπεὶ οὖν καὶ τὰ ἐν τῇ ἑβδομάδι πάντα πεφώτιστο καὶ διήγγελτο τὸ εὐαγγέλιον αὐτοῖς· (κτίσεις γάρ εἰσι κατʼ αὐτὰ τὰ διαστήματα κατʼ αὐτοὺς ἄπειροι καὶ ἀρχαὶ καὶ δυνάμεις καὶ ἐξουσίαι, περὶ ὧν μακρός ἐστι κατʼ αὐτοὺς πάνυ λόγος λεγόμενος διὰ πολλῶν, ἔνθα καὶ τριακοσίους ἑξήκοντα πέντε οὐρανοὺς φάσκουσι, καὶ τὸν μέγαν ἄρχοντα αὐτῶν εἶναι τὸν Ἁβρασὰξ διὰ τὸ περιέχειν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ψῆφον (??), ὥστε τοῦ ὀνόματος τὴν ψῆφον περιέχειν πάντα, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν τοσαύταις ἡμέραις συνεστάναι·)

English · Claude translation

Since, then, all things in the Hebdomad too had been enlightened and the gospel had been announced to them (for according to them there are in these intervals countless creations and principalities and powers and authorities, about which they have a very long account told at great length, where they also say there are three hundred and sixty-five heavens, and that their great Archon is Abrasax, because his name contains the number … , so that the number of the name contains all things, and for this reason the year consists of that many days),

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 372–374 · 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

Translation notes

The digital text has unreadable characters after “number”; the sense is the numeral 365 (Α=1, Β=2, Ρ=100, Α=1, Σ=200, Α=1, Ξ=60). The sentence continues in 7.26.7.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 7.26.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/26/6/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 7.26.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/26/6/).