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Refutation of All Heresies 8.16.1

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: Tatian, Justin's disciple, taught invisible Aeons, called marriage corruption, and denied Adam's salvation.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 432

Τατιανὸς δέ, καὶ αὐτὸς γενόμενος μαθητὴς Ἰουστίνου τοῦ μάρτυρος, οὐχ ὅμοια τῷ διδασκάλῳ ἐφρόνησεν, ἀλλὰ καινά τινα ἐπιχειρήσας ἔφη αἰῶνας τινὰς ἀοράτους ὁμοίως τοῖς ἀπὸ Οὐαλεντίνου μυθολογήσας. Γάμον δὲ φθορὰν εἶναι παραπλησίως Μαρκίωνι λέγει. Τὸν δὲ Ἀδὰμ φάσκει μὴ σώζεσθαι διὰ τὸ ἀρχηγὸν παρακοῆς γεγονέναι. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν Τατιανός.

English · Claude translation

Tatian, who also became a disciple of Justin the martyr, did not think the same as his teacher, but attempting some novelties he spoke of certain invisible Aeons, telling myths like those of the followers of Valentinus. And he says that marriage is corruption, like Marcion. And he claims that Adam is not saved, because he became the author of disobedience. These, then, are the teachings of Tatian.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 432 · 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.
Extrabiblical texts
  • Tatian, Or. Graec. (Oration to the Greeks) · allusion, low confidence
Topics
Heresy, Marriage

Notes

Translation notes

  • Hippolytus follows Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.28.1. Tatian's Oration to the Greeks is on this site.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/16/1/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/16/1/).

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