Refutation of All Heresies 9.15.5

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 bitten person prays and invokes the seven witnesses.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 466

[σὺν] παντὶ τῷ φορέματι αὐτοῦ καὶ προσευξάσθω τῷ μεγάλῳ καὶ ὑψίστῳ θεῷ ἐν καρδίας πίστει, καὶ τότε ἐπιμαρτυρησάσθω τοὺς ἑπτὰ μάρτυρας τοὺς γεγραμμένους ἐν τῇ βίβλῳ ταύτῃ. Ἰδοὺ μαρτύρομαι τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὰ πνεύματα τὰ ἅγια καὶ τοὺς ἀγγέλους τῆς προσευχῆς καὶ τὸ ἔλαιον καὶ τὸ ἅλας καὶ τὴν γῆν.

English · Claude translation

[with] all his clothing, and let him pray to the great and most high God in faith of heart, and then let him call to witness the seven witnesses written in this book: ‘Behold, I call to witness the heaven and the water and the holy spirits and the angels of prayer and the oil and the salt and the earth.

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

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.15.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/15/5/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.15.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/15/5/).