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Refutation of All Heresies 8.9.1

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: The Docetae find the three Aeons in the hundredfold, sixtyfold, and thirtyfold of the parable of the sower.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 416

Καὶ τοῦτο εἶναι δοκοῦσιν οὗτοι τὸ λελεγμένον ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος· Ἐξῆλθεν ὁ σπείρων τοῦ σπεῖραι, καὶ [τὸ] πεσὸν εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν καλὴν καὶ ἀγαθὴν ἐποίει ὃ μὲν ἑκατὸν, ὃ δὲ ἑξήκοντα, ὃ δὲ τριάκοντα. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο εἴρηκε, φησίν· Ὁ ἔχων ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω, ὅτι ταῦτα οὐκ ἔστι πάντων ἀκούσματα.

English · Claude translation

And they think that this is what was said by the Savior: “The sower went out to sow, and [what] fell into the good and fine earth produced, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.” And for this reason, he says, he said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear,” because these things are not for everyone to hear.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 416 · 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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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are from Matt 13:3, 8–9 (compare Luke 8:8).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/9/1/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/9/1/).

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