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Refutation of All Heresies 8.10.10

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: This is why the sects quarrel over Jesus: each sees only the aspect of him akin to itself and thinks it the only one.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 422

Διὰ τοῦτο τοσαῦται αἱρέσεις ζητοῦσι τὸν Ἰησοῦν περιμαχήτως, καὶ ἔστι πάσαις οἰκεῖος αὐταῖς, ἄλλῃ δὲ ἄλλος ὁρώμενος ἀπʼ ἄλλου τόπου, ἐφʼ ὃν ἑκάστη φέρεται, φησίν, καὶ σπεύδει δοκοῦσα τοῦτον εἶναι μόνον, ὅς ἐστιν αὐτῆς συγγενὴς ἴδιος καὶ πολίτης, ὃν ἰδοῦσα πρῶτον ἴδιον ἐγνώρισε μὲν ὡς ἀδελφόν, τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους νόθους.

English · Claude translation

For this reason so many heresies seek Jesus contentiously, and he belongs to all of them, but is seen as different by each, from a different place; toward whom, he says, each is carried and hastens, thinking this one alone to be him, who is her own kinsman and fellow citizen; whom, seeing first as her own, she recognized as a brother, but the others as bastards.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 422 · 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, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The feminine forms refer to each αἵρεσις (sect).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.10.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/10/10/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.10.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/10/10/).

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