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Refutation of All Heresies 8.18.1

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: The Quartodecimans insist on keeping Easter on the fourteenth of Nisan, fearing the law's curse, not seeing that the true Passover is now kept by faith.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 434

Ἕτεροι δέ τινες φιλόνεικοι τὴν φύσιν, ἰδιῶται τὴν γνῶσιν, μαχιμώτεροι τὸν τρόπον, συνιστάνουσι δεῖν τὸ πάσχα τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ τοῦ πρώτου μηνὸς φυλάσσειν κατὰ τὴν τοῦ νόμου διαταγήν, ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἐμπέσῃ, ὑφορώμενοι τὸ γεγραμμένον ἐν νόμῳ, ἐπικατάρατον ἔσεσθαι τὸν μὴ φυλάξαντα οὕτως ὡς διαστέλλεται, οὐ προσέχοντες ὅτι Ἰουδαίοις ἐνομοθετεῖτο τοῖς μέλλουσι τὸ ἀληθινὸν πάσχα ἀναιρεῖν, τὸ εἰς ἔθνη χωρῆσαν καὶ πίστει νοούμενον, οὐ γράμματι νῦν τηρούμενον· οἳ μιᾷ ταύτῃ προσέχοντες ἐντολῇ

English · Claude translation

Others, contentious by nature, unlearned in knowledge, more quarrelsome in manner, maintain that the Passover must be kept on the fourteenth of the first month, according to the ordinance of the law, on whatever day it may fall, fearing what is written in the law, that whoever does not keep it as prescribed will be accursed. They do not notice that this was legislated for the Jews, who were about to destroy the true Passover, which has passed to the nations and is understood by faith, not now kept according to the letter. Paying attention to this one commandment,

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 434 · 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.
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Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are Exod 12:6, 18 and Deut 27:26 (compare Gal 3:10).

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong accent: ᾗ): ἐν ᾖ ἂν → ἐν ᾗ ἂν.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/18/1/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/18/1/).

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