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Refutation of All Heresies 10.13.1

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: Summary of Valentinus: the first principle is the Father, called Depth, alone for some, with Silence as consort for others.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 512

Ὁ δὲ Οὐαλεντῖνος καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς τούτου σχολῆς εἶναι λέγουσι τὴν τοῦ παντὸς ἀρχὴν πατέρα, καὶ ἐναντίᾳ δὲ δόξῃ προσφέρονται. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν μόνον εἶναι καὶ γεννητικόν, οἱ δὲ ἀδυνάτως ἔχειν γεννᾶν ἄνευ θηλείας καὶ τούτου σύζυγον προστιθέασι σιγήν, βυθὸν αὐτὸν ὀνομάσαντες.

English · Claude translation

Valentinus and those of his school say that the principle of the universe is the Father, but they hold contrary opinions. For some of them say that he is alone and generative, while others say it is impossible for him to beget without a female, and add Silence as his consort, naming him Depth.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 512 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • Depth (Bythos) and Silence (Sige) are the first pair of the Valentinian Aeons.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/13/1/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/13/1/).

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