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Refutation of All Heresies 9.30.5

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 Jews await the Christ foretold by the prophets, but because they failed to recognize him and killed him, they still expect him.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 492

Οἱ δὲ πάντες ὁμοίως Χριστὸν προσδέχονται, τοῦ μὲν νόμου καὶ τῶν προφητῶν παρεσόμενον προκηρυξάντων, τῶν δὲ Ἰουδαίων τὸν καιρὸν τῆς παρουσίας μὴ ἐπιγνόντων, [ὡς] ἐπιμένειν τὴν ὑπόνοιαν τοῦ δοκεῖν μὴ τὰ εἰ[ρημένα] περὶ τῆς παρουσίας τετελέσθαι, προσδοκᾶν δὲ ἤδη Χριστὸν παρεσόμενον διὰ τὸ παρόντα μὴ ἐπεγνωκέναι, καὶ τὰ σύμβολα τῶν καιρῶν τοῦ ἤδη παραγεγονέναι ὁρῶντας ταράττεσθαι, αἰδεῖσθαί τε ὁμολογεῖν ἐληλυθέναι, ἐπεὶ αὐτόχειρες αὐτοῦ γεγένηνται, ἀγανακτοῦντες ἐλεγχόμενοι ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι τοῖς νόμοις μὴ ὑπήκουσαν.

English · Claude translation

All of them alike await the Christ, since the Law and the Prophets proclaimed beforehand that he would come; but the Jews did not recognize the time of his coming, [so that] the suspicion remains that what was [said] about his coming has not been fulfilled, and they still expect the Christ to come, because they did not recognize him when he was present. Seeing the signs of the times that he has already come, they are troubled, and are ashamed to confess that he has come, since they became his murderers, being angry at being rebuked by him for not having obeyed the laws.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 492 · 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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Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • This is Hippolytus's Christian polemic, translated as written. The allusions are Luke 19:44 and Matt 16:3.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 9.30.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/30/5/).

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