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Refutation of All Heresies 10.17.1

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 Monoimus: the first principle is Man and Son of Man, and the world came from a part of the Son of Man.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 522

Οἱ δὲ κατὰ Μονόϊμον τὸν Ἄραβά φασιν εἶναι τὴν τοῦ παντὸς ἀρχὴν πρῶτον ἄνθρωπον καὶ υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου, καὶ τὰ γενόμενα, καθὼς Μωϋσῆς λέγει, μὴ ὑπὸ τοῦ πρώτου ἀνθρώπου γεγονέναι, ἀλλὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, οὐχ ὅλου, ἀλλʼ ἐκ μέρους αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Those who follow Monoimus the Arab say that the principle of the universe is the first Man and Son of Man; and that the things that came into being, as Moses says, were made not by the first Man but by the Son of Man, and not by the whole of him but by a part of him.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 522 · 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

  • See 8.12–15.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong breathing/accent: εἶναι): εἷναι → εἶναι.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.17.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/17/1/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.17.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/17/1/).

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