Refutation of All Heresies 9.15.1

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.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 466

Τὸ μὲν οὖν βάπτισμα τοῖς ἀπʼ αὐτ... ένοις οὕτως παραδίδωσι, τοιάδε λέγων τοῖς ἀπατωμένοις· Εἴ τις οὖν, τέκνα, ἐπλησίασεν οἱῳδήποτε ζῴῳ ἢ ἄρρενι ἢ ἀδελφῇ ἢ θυγατρί, ἢ ἐμοίχευσεν ἢ ἐπόρνευσε, καὶ θέλει ἄφεσιν λαβεῖν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν, ἀφʼ οὗ ἂν ἀκούσῃ τῆς βίβλου ταύτης, βαπτισάσθω ἐκ δευτέρου ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ ὑψίστου θεοῦ καὶ ἐν ὀνόματι υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, τοῦ μεγάλου

English · Claude translation

He hands on baptism to those … by him in this way, saying such things as these to those who are deceived: “If, then, children, anyone has had intercourse with any animal whatever, or a male, or a sister, or a daughter, or has committed adultery or sexual immorality, and wishes to receive forgiveness of sins, from the moment he hears this book let him be baptized a second time in the name of the great and most high God and in the name of his Son, the great

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 466 · 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, Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

A word is damaged in the first line (“those … by him”). ἐμοίχευσεν ἢ ἐπόρνευσε is rendered “committed adultery or sexual immorality.”

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent: οὖν): Εἴ τις οὗν → Εἴ τις οὖν.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.15.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/15/1/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.15.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/15/1/).