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Refutation of All Heresies 4.1.2

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: Astrologers speak of stars in trine and square aspects, and of sympathy between heaven and earth.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 50

[Ἐπιβλέπειν δὲ λέγονται ἀλλήλους καὶ συμφωνεῖν ἀλλήλοις] ὡς οἱ κατὰ τρίγωνον ἢ τετράγωνον φαινόμενοι· κατὰ τρίγωνον μὲν οὖν σχηματίζονται καὶ ἐπιθεωροῦσιν ἀλλήλους οἱ ἐπὶ τριῶν ζῳδίων ἔχοντες τὸ μεταξὺ διάλειμμα, κατὰ τετράγωνον δὲ οἱ δυεῖν· κεφαλῇ τὰ ὑποκείμενα μέρη συμπά[σχει καὶ τοῖς ὑποκει]μένοις ἡ κεφαλή, οὕτω καὶ τοῖς ὑπερσεληναίοις τὰ ἐπίγεια. Ἀλλά τις ἔστι τούτων διαφορὰ καὶ ἀσυμπάθεια, ὡς ἂν μὴ μίαν καὶ τ[ὴν] αὐτὴν ἐχόντων ἕνωσιν.

English · Claude translation

[They are said to look upon one another and to agree with one another] when they appear in trine or in square. Those form a trine and look upon one another that have an interval of three signs between them, and those in square an interval of two. As the parts below sympathize with the head, [and the head with the parts] below, so earthly things sympathize with those above the moon. Yet there is a certain difference and lack of sympathy among these, as they do not have one and the same unity.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 50 · 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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Hippolytus, Haer. 4.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/1/2/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 4.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/1/2/).

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