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Refutation of All Heresies 8.12.2

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: Monoimus taught that Man is the eternal first principle of all things, and the Son of Man is begotten and passible.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 424

Ὠκεανὸς γένεσίς τε θεῶν γένεσίς τʼ ἀνθρώπων. Ταῦτα ἄλλοις λόγοις μεταστήσας λέγει ἄνθρωπον εἶναι τὸ πᾶν (ὅ ἐστιν ἀρχὴ τῶν ὅλων) ἀγέννητον, ἄφθαρτον, ἀΐδιον, καὶ υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου τοῦ προειρημένου γεννητὸν καὶ παθητόν, ἀχρόνως γενόμενον, ἀβουλήτως, ἀπροορίστως. Τοιαύτη γὰρ, φησίν, ἡ δύναμις ἐκείνου τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.

English · Claude translation

“Ocean, origin of gods and origin of men.” Transposing these things into other words, he says that the Man is the All (which is the first principle of all things), unbegotten, incorruptible, eternal; and that the Son of Man, of the aforementioned Man, is begotten and passible, having come into being timelessly, without will, without being predetermined. For such, he says, is the power of that Man.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 424 · 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.
Extrabiblical texts
  • Homer, Il. 14.201 (Homer, Iliad) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Homer, Iliad 14.201 (compare 14.246).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/12/2/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/12/2/).

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