Refutation of All Heresies 8.10.2

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, 420

Ὅτι δὲ τοῦθʼ οὕτως ἔχει, φησίν, ἔνεστι καὶ ἐκ τοῦ Ἰὼβ κατανοῆσαι λέγοντος· Καὶ ἐγὼ πλανῆτις καὶ τόπον ἐκ τόπων μεταβαίνουσα καὶ οἰκίαν ἐξ οἰκίας, καὶ τοῦ σωτῆρος λέγοντος· Καὶ εἰ θέλετε δέξασθαι, αὐτός ἐστιν Ἠλίας ὁ μέλλων ἔρχεσθαι. Ὁ ἔχων ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω. Ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ σωτῆρος μετενσωμάτωσις πέπαυται, πίστις δὲ κηρύσσεται εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν.

English · Claude translation

And that this is so, he says, can be understood from Job, who says, “And I am a wanderer, passing from place to place and from house to house,” and from the Savior, who says, “And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.” But from the Savior's time transmigration has ceased, and faith is preached for the forgiveness of sins.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 420 · 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

Job 2:9 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 11:14–15 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Job 2:9 (the longer Greek form of the speech of Job's wife, 2:9d LXX) and Matt 11:14–15.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong breathing: ὦτα): ὧτα → ὦτα.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 8.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/10/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 8.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/10/2/).