Refutation of All Heresies 6.46.3

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.

Summary: To correct the deficient number, one who was set apart in the Father came down, restoring the unity of the Pleroma.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 314

Ἔστιν οὖν ὁ μὲν λόγος ἔχων καὶ ἡ ζωὴ τὰ ὀκτώ, ὁ δὲ ἄνθρωπος καὶ ἡ ἐκκλησία τὰ ἑπτά, ὁ δὲ πατὴρ καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια τὰ ἐννέα. Ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ ὑστερήσαντος λόγου ὁ ἀφεδρασθεὶς ἐν τῷ πατρὶ κατῆλθεν, ἐκπεμφθεὶς ἐπὶ τὸν ἀφʼ οὗ ἐχωρίσθη, ἐπὶ διορθώσει τῶν πραχθέντων, ἵνα ἡ τῶν πληρωμάτων ἑνότης ἐν τῷ ἀγαθῷ οὖσα καρποφορῇ μίαν ἐν πᾶσι τὴν ἐκ πάντων δύναμιν.

English · Claude translation

Word and Life, then, have the eight, Man and Church the seven, the Father and Truth the nine. But because the reckoning fell short, the one who had been set apart in the Father came down, sent out to the one from whom he had been separated, for the correction of what had been done, so that the unity of the Pleromas, being in the Good, might bear as fruit one power in all, from all.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 314 · 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.

Topics

Heresy

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.46.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/46/3/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.46.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/46/3/).