Refutation of All Heresies 5.7.32

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, 146

Οὗτος, φησίν, ἐστὶν ὁ τῆς ζωῆς καὶ τοῦ θανάτου μόνος ἔχων ἐξουσίαν. Περὶ τούτου, φησί, γέγραπται· Ποιμανεῖς αὐτοὺς ἐν ῥάβδῳ σιδηρᾷ. Ὁ δὲ ποιητής, φησί, κοσμῆσαι βουλόμενος τὸ ἀπερινόητον τῆς μακαρίας φύσεως τοῦ λόγου, οὐ σιδηρᾶν, ἀλλὰ χρυσῆν περιέθηκε τὴν ῥάβδον αὐτῷ. Θέλγει δὲ τὰ ὄμματα τῶν νεκρῶν, φησί, τοὺς δʼ αὖτε καὶ ὑπνώοντας ἐγείρει, τοὺς ἐξυπνισμένους καὶ γεγονότας μνηστῆρας.

English · Claude translation

This, he says, is the one who alone has authority over life and death. About him, he says, it is written: "You will shepherd them with a rod of iron." But the poet, he says, wishing to adorn the incomprehensibility of the blessed nature of the Word, gave him not an iron but a golden rod. He charms the eyes of the dead, he says, "and wakes others again who are sleeping," those who have been awakened and become "suitors."

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 146 · 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

Ps 2:9 · quotation, high confidence
Rev 2:27 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is Ps 2:9 (cf. Rev 2:27).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): τοὺς δʼ αὖτε καί ὑπνώοντας → τοὺς δʼ αὖτε καὶ ὑπνώοντας.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.32 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/7/32/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.32 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/7/32/).