Refutation of All Heresies 5.7.35

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 Ἀδάμας ὁ λίθος ὁ ἀκρογωνιαῖος εἰς κεφαλὴν γεγενημένος γωνίας, (ἐν κεφαλῇ γὰρ εἶναι τὸν χαρακτηριστικὸν ἐγκέφαλον τὴν οὐσίαν, ἐξ οὗ πᾶσα πατριὰ χαρακτηρίζεται) ὅν, φησίν, ἐντάσσω ἀδάμαντα εἰς τὰ θεμέλια Σιών· ἀλληγορῶν, φησί, τὸ πλάσμα τοῦ ἀνθρώπου λέγει.

English · Claude translation

This, he says, is Adamas, the cornerstone that has become the head of the corner (for in the head is the brain, the substance that stamps, from which every fatherhood is stamped), whom, he says, "I set as an adamant into the foundations of Zion"; allegorically, he says, he means the molded form of man.

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 118:22 (117:22 LXX) · allusion, high confidence
Isa 28:16 · quotation, medium confidence
Eph 3:15 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions are Ps 118:22 (117:22 LXX), Isa 28:16 (quoted freely, with "adamant" for "stone"), and Eph 3:15.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.35 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/7/35/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.7.35 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/7/35/).