Refutation of All Heresies 7.27.10

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: At the passion each part of Jesus returned to its own level: body to the formless, soul to the Hebdomad, and higher parts to the great Archon and the boundary Spirit.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 378

Ἔπαθεν οὖν τοῦτο ὅπερ ἦν αὐτοῦ σωματικὸν μέρος, ὃ ἦν τῆς ἀμορφίας, καὶ ἀπεκατέστη εἰς τὴν ἀμορφίαν· ἀνέστη δὲ τοῦτο ὅπερ ἦν ψυχικὸν αὐτοῦ μέρος, ὅπερ ἦν τῆς ἑβδομάδος, καὶ ἀπεκατέστη εἰς τὴν ἑβδομάδα· ἀνέστησε δὲ τοῦτο ὅπερ ἦν τῆς ἀκρωρείας οἰκεῖον τοῦ μεγάλου ἄρχοντος καὶ ἔμεινε παρὰ τὸν ἄρχοντα τὸν μέγαν· ἀνήνεγκε δὲ μέχρις ἄνω τοῦτο ὅπερ ἦν τοῦ μεθορίου πνεύματος καὶ ἔμεινεν ἐν τῷ μεθορίῳ πνεύματι·

English · Claude translation

So that which was his bodily part suffered, which belonged to the formlessness, and it was restored to the formlessness; and that which was his psychic part rose, which belonged to the Hebdomad, and it was restored to the Hebdomad; and he raised that which was proper to the summit of the great Archon, and it remained beside the great Archon; and he carried up as far as above that which belonged to the boundary Spirit, and it remained in the boundary Spirit;

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 378 · 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, Christology

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 7.27.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/27/10/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 7.27.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/27/10/).