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Refutation of All Heresies 10.18.1

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 Tatian: invisible Aeons, a Cynic life, and Marcion-like blasphemy and rules against marriage.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 522–524

Τατιανὸς δὲ παραπλησίως τῷ Οὐαλεντίνῳ καὶ τοῖς ἑτέροις φησὶν αἰῶνας εἶναι τινὰς ἀοράτους, ἐξ ὧν ὑπό τινος κάτω τὸν κόσμον δεδημιουργῆσθαι καὶ τὰ ὄντα. Κυνικωτέρῳ δὲ βίῳ ἀσκεῖται καὶ σχεδὸν οὐδὲν Μαρκίωνος ἀπεμφαίνει πρός τε τὰς δυσφημίας καὶ τὰς περὶ γάμων νομοθεσίας.

English · Claude translation

Tatian, like Valentinus and the others, says that there are certain invisible Aeons, from whom the world and the things that exist were fashioned below by someone. He practices a rather Cynic way of life and hardly differs at all from Marcion in his blasphemies and in his rules about marriages.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 522–524 · 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, Marriage

Notes

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

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/18/1/).

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