Refutation of All Heresies 9.17.3

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: Having covered the heresies, Hippolytus will describe the Jewish sects so as to leave nothing out.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 470

Δοκεῖ τοίνυν ἱκανὰ εἶναι πρὸς ἐπίγνωσιν τὰ εἰρημένα τῆς τούτων μανίας τοῖς ὑγιαίνοντα νοῦν κεκτημένοις· διὸ πλείοσι ῥητοῖς οὐκ ἔδοξε χρῆσθαι, οὖσι πλείστοις καὶ καταγελάστοις. Ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ μηδὲ ταῦτα παρελείπομεν τὰ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἐπεγηγερμένα, τά τε πρὸ ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐσιωπήσαμεν, δοκεῖ, ἵνα διὰ πάντων ὧμεν πεπορευμένοι [καὶ] μηδὲν ἀνεκδιήγητον καταλείπωμεν, εἰπεῖν τίνα καὶ τῶν Ἰουδαίων [ἔθη], καὶ τίνες αἱ ἐν τούτοις διαφοραί·

English · Claude translation

What has been said, then, seems sufficient for people of sound mind to recognize the madness of these men; therefore I have not seen fit to use more sayings, which are very many and ridiculous. But since we have not passed over even these things that have arisen in our own time, nor kept silent about those before us, it seems right, so that we may have gone through everything [and] leave nothing untold, to say what the [customs] of the Jews are, and what the differences among them are;

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 470 · 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.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.17.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/17/3/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.17.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/17/3/).