Refutation of All Heresies 5.27.4

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: Justin reads Hosea's command to marry an unfaithful wife as the mystery of Eden's departure from Elohim.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 230

Καὶ ὅταν λέγῃ, φησίν, ὁ προφήτης λαβεῖν ἑαυτῷ γυναῖκα πορνείας, διότι πορνεύουσα ἐκπορνεύσει ἡ γῆ ἀπὸ ὄπισθε τοῦ κυρίου, τουτέστιν ἡ Ἐδὲμ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐλωείμ, ἐν τούτοις, φησίν, ὁ προφήτης σαφῶς λαλεῖ τὸ ὅλον μυστήριον, καὶ οὐκ ἀκούεται διὰ τὴν κακίαν τοῦ Νάας.

English · Claude translation

“And when the prophet,” he says, “is told to take for himself a wife of sexual immorality, because the land will go whoring after sexual immorality away from following the Lord, that is, Eden away from Elohim, in these words,” he says, “the prophet speaks the whole mystery clearly, and he is not heard because of the wickedness of Naas.”

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 230 · 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.

Scripture

Hos 1:2 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.27.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/27/4/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.27.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/27/4/).