Refutation of All Heresies 10.17.5

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: To know the whole, one must seek within oneself the one who says “my soul, my flesh, my mind.”

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 522

Εἰ δὲ, φησί, θέλεις ἐπιγνῶναι τὸ πᾶν, ἐν σεαυτῷ ζήτησον τίς ὁ λέγων· ἡ ψυχή μου, ἡ σάρξ μου, ὁ νοῦς μου, καὶ ἓν ἕκαστον κατιδιοποιούμενος ὡς ἕτερος αὐτῷ· τοῦτον νόει τέλειον ἐκ τελείου, πάντα ἴδια ἡγούμενον οὐκ ὄντα τὰ καλούμενα καὶ τὰ πάντα ὄντα. Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν καὶ Μονοΐμῳ δοκεῖ.

English · Claude translation

But if, he says, you wish to know the whole, seek in yourself who it is who says, “My soul, my flesh, my mind,” and who makes each single thing his own as though another; understand this one as perfect from perfect, considering all things his own, the things called non-existent and all things existing. These, then, are the views of Monoimus too.

About this passage

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

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/17/5/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/17/5/).