Refutation of All Heresies 10.6.3

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.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 496

καὶ τῶν ἐκ πλειόνων οἱ μὲν ἐξ ἀριθμητῶν, [οἱ δὲ ἐξ ἀπείρων· καὶ τῶν ἐξ ἀριθμητῶν] οἱ μὲν ἐκ δυοῖν, οἱ δὲ ἐκ τεσσάρων, οἱ δὲ ἐκ (??), οἱ δὲ ἐκ (??)· καὶ τῶν ἐξ ἀπείρων οἱ μὲν ἐξ ὁμοίων τοῖς γεννωμένοις, οἱ δὲ ἐξ ἀνομοίων· καὶ τούτων οἱ μὲν ἐξ [ἀπα]θῶν, οἱ δὲ ἐκ παθητῶν.

English · Claude translation

and of those from more than one, some from a definite number, [others from infinitely many; and of those from a definite number,] some from two, others from four, others from …, others from …; and of those from infinitely many, some from things like the things generated, others from things unlike; and of these some from impassible things, others from passible.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 496 · 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.

Notes

Translation notes

Numerals are unreadable in the digital text (probably five and six); the bracketed words are editorial supplements.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/6/3/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 10.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/6/3/).