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Refutation of All Heresies 10.31.2

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: From Noah's three sons all nations descend, by the power of God's word “increase and multiply.”

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 534

Γίνονται τῷ Νῶε τρεῖς παῖδες Σήμ, Χάμ, Ἰάφεθ· ἐκ τούτων πᾶν γένος ἀνθρώπων πεπλήθυνται καὶ πᾶσα χώρα κατοικεῖται· ῥῆμα γὰρ θεοῦ ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἴσχυσεν εἰπόντος· αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε καὶ πληρώσατε τὴν γῆν. Τοσοῦτον δυνηθέντος ἑνὸς ῥήματος γεννῶνται ἐκ τῶν τριῶν παῖδες κατὰ γένος (??), ἐκ μὲν τοῦ Σὴμ (??), ἐκ δὲ τοῦ Ἰάφεθ (??), ἐκ δὲ τοῦ Χὰμ (??).

English · Claude translation

Three sons are born to Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; from these the whole human race has multiplied and every land is inhabited; for the word of God prevailed over them, when he said, “Increase and multiply and fill the earth.” One word having such power, there are born from the three children by race …: from Shem …, from Japheth …, and from Ham ….

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 534 · 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.
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  • The quotation is Gen 9:1 (compare 1:28). The numbers of descendants are unreadable in the digital text.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/31/2/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/31/2/).

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