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Refutation of All Heresies 8.14.5

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: All knowledge is the ten plagues and ten commandments; even the five books of the Law come from the number five in the iota.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 428

Πᾶσα γὰρ, φησίν, ἡ γνῶσις τῶν ὅλων δεκάπληγός ἐστι καὶ δεκάλογος, ἣν οἶδεν οὐδεὶς τῶν περὶ τὸ γέννημα τῆς θηλείας πεπλανημένων. Κἂν εἴπῃς πεντάτευχον ὅλον τὸν νόμον, ἔστιν ἀπὸ τῆς πεντάδος τῆς ἐν τῇ μιᾷ κατειλημμένης κεραίᾳ.

English · Claude translation

For all the knowledge of the universe, he says, is ten-plague and ten-word, which none of those who have gone astray about the offspring of the woman knows. And even if you call the whole law the Pentateuch, it is from the pentad contained in the one stroke.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 428 · 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, Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (misread letter: ἣν): ᾓν οἶδεν → ἣν οἶδεν.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.14.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/14/5/).

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