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Refutation of All Heresies 8.10.7

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: At his baptism Jesus received a copy of his body in the water, so that at the cross his soul, stripping off the flesh, would not be found naked.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 420–422

Γεννηθὲν δὲ ἐνεδύσατο αὐτὸ ἄνωθεν ἐλθών, καὶ πάντα ἐποίησεν οὕτως, ὡς ἐν τοῖς εὐαγγελίοις γέγραπται, ἐλούσατο εἰς τὸν Ἰορδάνην, ἐλούσατο δὲ τύπον καὶ σφράγισμα λαβὼν ἐν τῷ ὕδατι τοῦ γεγεννημένου σώματος ἀπὸ τῆς παρθένου, ἵνʼ, ὅταν ὁ ἄρχων κατακρίνῃ τὸ ἴδιον πλάσμα θανάτῳ, τῷ σταυρῷ, ψυχὴ ἐκείνη ἐν τῷ σώματι τραφεῖσα, ἀπεκδυσαμένη τὸ σῶμα καὶ προσηλώσασα πρὸς τὸ ξύλον, καὶ θριαμβεύσασα διʼ αὐτοῦ τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ἐξουσίας μὴ εὑρεθῇ γυμνή, ἀλλʼ ἐνδύσηται τὸ ἐν τῷ ὕδατι, ὅτε ἐβαπτίζετο, ἀντὶ τῆς σαρκὸς ἐκείνης ἐκτετυπωμένον σῶμα.

English · Claude translation

And when it had been born, he who came from above put it on, and did everything just as is written in the Gospels. He washed in the Jordan, and he washed receiving in the water a type and seal of the body born from the virgin, so that when the Archon condemned his own formation to death, to the cross, that soul nourished in the body, having stripped off the body and nailed it to the tree, and having triumphed through it over the principalities and authorities, might not be found naked, but might put on the body stamped in the water when he was baptized, in place of that flesh.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 420–422 · 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.
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Topics
Heresy, Christology, Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are Col 2:14–15 and 2 Cor 5:3–4.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/10/7/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/10/7/).

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