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Refutation of All Heresies 6.42.7

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: The restoration of all things comes when all letters sound as one, pictured in the common “Amen”; the sounds are the angels who see the Father's face.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 304–306

ἕκαστον γὰρ αὐτῶν μέρος ὄντα τοῦ ὅλου τὸν ἴδιον ἦχον ὡς τὸ πᾶν ὀνομάζειν καὶ μὴ παύσασθαι ἠχοῦντα, μέχρις ὅτου ἐπὶ τὸ ἔσχατον γράμμα τοῦ ἐσχάτου στοιχείου μονογλωττήσαντα καταντῆσαι. Τότε δὲ [καὶ] τὴν ἀποκατάστασιν τῶν ὅλων ἔφη γενέσθαι, ὅταν τὰ πάντα κατελθόντα εἰς τὸ ἓν γράμμα μίαν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ἐκφώνησιν ἠχήσῃ, τῆς τε ἐκφωνήσεως εἰκόνα τὸ ἀμὴν ὁμοῦ λεγόντων ἡμῶν ὑπέθετο εἶναι. Τοὺς δὲ [φθόγγους] ὑπάρχειν τοὺς μορφοῦντας τὸν ἀνούσιον καὶ ἀγέννητον αἰῶνα, καὶ εἶναι τούτους μορφάς, ἃς ὁ κύριος ἀγγέλους εἴρηκε, τὰς διηνεκῶς βλεπούσας τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρός.

English · Claude translation

for each of them, being part of the whole, names its own sound as the whole, and does not stop sounding until, speaking singly, it arrives at the last letter of the last element.” And then, he said, the restoration of all things takes place, when all things, coming down into the one letter, sound one and the same utterance; and he supposed that the image of this utterance is the Amen which we say together. And the [sounds] are those that give form to the Aeon without substance and unbegotten; and these are the forms which the Lord called angels, who continually behold the face of the Father.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 304–306 · 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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Topics
Heresy, Eschatology

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  • The bracketed word is the editor's supplement.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.42.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/42/7/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.42.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/42/7/).

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