Refutation of All Heresies 10.14.9

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 power of the gospel came down through the sons of both Archons onto Jesus, son of Mary, to purify the Sonship left behind.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 516

Ταῦτα δὲ πάντα κατὰ προλογισμὸν εἶναι ἐκείνου τοῦ οὐκ ὄντος λέγουσιν, εἶναι δὲ κόσμους καὶ διαστήματα ἄπειρα. [Ἐπὶ] τὸν δὲ Ἰησοῦν τὸν ἐκ Μαρίας κεχωρηκέναι τὴν εὐαγγελίου δύναμιν, τὴν κατελθοῦσαν καὶ φωτίσασαν τόν τε τῆς ὀγδοάδος υἱὸν καὶ [τὸν] τῆς ἑβδομάδος, ἐπὶ τῷ φωτίσαι καὶ φυλοκρινῆσαι καὶ καθαρίσαι τὴν καταλελειμμένην υἱότητα εἰς τὸ εὐεργετεῖν τὰς ψυχὰς καὶ εὐεργετεῖσθαι.

English · Claude translation

And they say that all these things are according to the foreknowledge of that non-existent one, and that there are infinite worlds and intervals. And that the power of the gospel came [upon] Jesus, the son of Mary, the power which came down and enlightened both the son of the Ogdoad and [the son] of the Hebdomad, in order to enlighten, sort out, and purify the Sonship left behind to benefit the souls and be benefited.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 516 · 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, Christology

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.14.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/14/9/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.14.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/14/9/).