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Refutation of All Heresies 9.28.5

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 Pharisees hold both fate and free will under God's will, and believe in bodily resurrection, judgment, and eternal punishment.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 488

Οὗτοι εἱμαρμένην εἶναι λέγουσι, καὶ τινὰ μὲν κατʼ ἐξουσίαν εἶναι, τινὰ δὲ κατὰ τὴν εἱμαρμένην, ὡς τινὰ μὲν ἐφʼ ἡμῖν, τινὰ δὲ τῆς εἱμαρμένης, θεὸν δὲ πάντων εἶναι αἴτιον, καὶ μηδὲν ἄνευ θελήματος αὐτοῦ διοικεῖσθαι ἢ συμβαίνειν. Οὗτοι καὶ σαρκὸς ἀνάστασιν ὁμολογοῦσι καὶ ψυχὴν ἀθάνατον καὶ κρίσιν ἐσομένην καὶ ἐκπύρωσιν, καὶ δικαίους μὲν ἀφθάρτους ἔσεσθαι, ἀδίκους δὲ εἰσαεὶ κολασθήσεσθαι ἐν πυρὶ ἀσβέστῳ.

English · Claude translation

These say that there is fate, and that some things are in our power and some happen by fate, so that some things are up to us and some belong to fate; but that God is the cause of all things, and nothing is governed or happens without his will. These also confess the resurrection of the flesh, an immortal soul, a judgment to come, and a conflagration, and that the righteous will be incorruptible, while the unrighteous will be punished forever in unquenchable fire.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 488 · 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.
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Josephus, B.J. 2.162–163 (Josephus (works)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Compare Josephus, Jewish War 2.162–163. “Unquenchable fire” echoes Mark 9:43.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 9.28.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/28/5/).

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