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Refutation of All Heresies 7.30.2

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 addresses Marcion directly: calling the Creator evil is teaching Empedocles to the church.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 394

Φέρε γάρ, ὦ Μαρκίων, καθάπερ τὴν ἀντιπαράθεσιν πεποίηκας ἀγαθοῦ καὶ κακοῦ, ἀντιπαραθῶ κἀγὼ σήμερον κατακολουθῶν τοῖς σοῖς, ὡς ὑπολαμβάνεις, δόγμασι. Δημιουργὸν φῂς εἶναι τοῦ κόσμου πονηρόν· εἶτα οὐκ ἐγκαλύπτῃ τοὺς Ἐμπεδοκλέους λόγους τὴν ἐκκλησίαν κατηχῶν;

English · Claude translation

Come now, Marcion: just as you have made the contrast of good and evil, let me too today make a contrast, following your doctrines, as you suppose them to be. You say the Demiurge of the world is evil; then are you not ashamed to catechize the church with the words of Empedocles?

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 394 · 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

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong breathing: ὦ): ὧ Μαρκίων → ὦ Μαρκίων.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 7.30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/30/2/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 7.30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/30/2/).

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