Refutation of All Heresies 7.26.1

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: Through his son the great Archon learned he was not the supreme God, and he turned in fear.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 372

Ἦλθεν οὖν τὸ εὐαγγέλιον πρῶτον ἀπὸ τῆς υἱότητος, φησί, διὰ τοῦ παρακαθημένου τῷ ἄρχοντι υἱοῦ πρὸς τὸν ἄρχοντα, καὶ ἔμαθεν ὁ ἄρχων, ὅτι οὐκ ἦν θεὸς τῶν ὅλων, ἀλλʼ ἦν γεννητὸς καὶ ἔχων αὐτοῦ ὑπεράνω τὸν τοῦ ἀρρήτου καὶ ἀκατονομάστου οὐκ ὄντος καὶ τῆς υἱότητος κατακείμενον θησαυρόν, καὶ ἐπέστρεψε καὶ ἐφοβήθη, συνιεὶς ἐν οἵᾳ ἦν ἀγνοίᾳ.

English · Claude translation

So the gospel came first from the Sonship, he says, through the son seated beside the Archon, to the Archon; and the Archon learned that he was not the God of all things, but was generated and had above him the treasure of the unspeakable and unnameable non-existent one and of the Sonship laid up; and he turned and was afraid, understanding in what ignorance he had been.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 372 · 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. 7.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/26/1/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 7.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/7/26/1/).