Refutation of All Heresies 10.14.5

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 third Sonship stayed in the seed-mass; the world and what is above it are divided by the boundary Spirit.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 514

Ἡ δὲ τρίτη υἱότης ἀποκαθάρσεως δεῖται· αὕτη μεμένηκεν ἐν τῷ τῆς πανσπερμίας σωρῷ, καὶ αὐτὴ εὐεργετοῦσα καὶ εὐεργετουμένη. Εἶναι δέ τι καλούμενον κόσμον, τὸ δὲ ὑπερκόσμια· διαιρεῖται γὰρ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ [τὰ ὄντα] εἰς δύο τὰς πρώτας διαιρέσεις. Τὸ δὲ τούτων μέσον καλεῖ μεθόριον πνεῦμα ἅγιον, ἔχον τὴν ὀσμὴν τῆς υἱότητος.

English · Claude translation

The third Sonship needs purification; it has remained in the heap of the seed-mass, itself too benefiting and being benefited. And there is something called the world, and the other the supramundane things; for [the things that exist] are divided by him into two first divisions. And what is between these he calls the boundary Spirit, holy, having the scent of the Sonship.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 514 · 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

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.14.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/14/5/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.14.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/14/5/).