Refutation of All Heresies 10.26.1

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: Some Montanists follow Noetus, saying the Father of all is himself the Son, visible and invisible, mortal and immortal.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 528

Ἕτεροι δὲ αὐτῶν τῇ τῶν Νοητιανῶν αἱρέσει προσκείμενοι τὰ μὲν περὶ τὰ γύναια καὶ Μοντᾶνον ὁμοίως δοκοῦσι, τὰ δὲ περὶ [τὸν] τῶν ὅλων πατέρα δυσφημοῦσιν, αὐτὸν εἶναι υἱὸν καὶ πατέρα λέγοντες, ὁρατὸν καὶ ἀόρατον, γεννητὸν καὶ ἀγέννητον, θνητὸν καὶ ἀθάνατον· οὗτοι τὰς ἀφορμὰς ἀπὸ Νοητοῦ τινος λαβόντες.

English · Claude translation

Others of them, attached to the heresy of the Noetians, think the same about the women and Montanus, but blaspheme about the Father of all things, saying that he himself is Son and Father, visible and invisible, begotten and unbegotten, mortal and immortal. These took their starting points from a certain Noetus.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 528 · 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, Trinity

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/26/1/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/26/1/).