Refutation of All Heresies 9.13.6

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: Hippolytus will expose Alcibiades's pretended asceticism and quote his writings.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 464

Ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ ἠρξάμεθα, καὶ τὰ τούτου δόγματα οὐ σιωπήσομεν· εἰς φανερόν τε ἀγαγόντες πρότερον τὸν βίον, καὶ δείξαντες τὴν νομιζομένην ἄσκησιν προσποιητὴν ὑπάρχουσαν, αὖθις καὶ τῶν ῥητῶν κεφάλαια παραθήσομαι, ἵνα τοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐγγράφοις ὁ ἐντυγχάνων ἐνατενίσας ἐπιγνοίη, τίς καὶ ὁποία· εἴη ἡ τούτῳ τετολμημένη αἵρεσις.

English · Claude translation

But since we have begun, we shall not keep silent about his doctrines either; having first brought his life into the open and shown that his supposed asceticism is pretended, I shall then set out the chief points of his sayings, so that the reader, looking closely at his writings, may recognize what and what kind of heresy this is that he has dared.

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 464 · 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

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/13/6/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/13/6/).