Refutation of All Heresies 5.14.3

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, 184–186

Δύναμις πεπιστευμένη τὴν Θάλασσαν ἀρρενόθηλυς, ἣ τὸν ἀνατρέχοντα συριγμὸν ἀπὸ τῶν δώδεκα στομάτων τοῖς δώδεκα αὐλίσκοις ἁρμόζουσα διαχύνει λεπτὴ οὖσα καὶ καθαιροῦσα τὴν κατέχουσαν λάβρον ἀναφοράν, καὶ σφραγίζει ἀτραπῶν ὁ δοὺς αὐτῆς, πρὸς τὸ μὴ πολεμῆσαι ἢ ἐναλλάξαι τὸ μὴ διʼ αὐτῆς θυγάτηρ τυφωνικὴ πιστὴ φύλαξ ὑδάτων παντοίων. Ὄνομα αὐτῇ Χορζάρ· ταύτην ἡ ἀγνωσία ἐκάλεσε Ποσειδῶνα, οὗ κατʼ εἰκόνα ἐγένετο Γλαῦκος, Μελικέρτης, Ἰνώ, Νεβρόη.

English · Claude translation

The power entrusted with the Sea is male-female; it fits the hissing that runs up from the twelve mouths to the twelve pipes and pours it out, being fine, and it tames the violent upward surge that holds sway, and seals its paths …, so that it may not make war or alter what is not through it: a Typhonic daughter, faithful guardian of waters of every kind. Her name is Chorzar. Ignorance called her Poseidon, after whose image came Glaucus, Melicertes, Ino, Nebroe.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 184–186 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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

Notes

Translation notes

The text is corrupt in the middle (σφραγίζει ἀτραπῶν ὁ δοὺς αὐτῆς); the rendering is tentative.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/14/3/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/14/3/).