Refutation of All Heresies 9.30.7

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: They expect a Messiah of David's line born naturally, a warrior-king who will gather Israel and restore Jerusalem.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 492

γένεσιν μὲν γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἐσομένην λέγουσιν ἐκ γένους Δαβίδ, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐκ παρθένου καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ἀλλʼ ἐκ γυναικὸς καὶ ἀνδρός, ὡς πᾶσιν ὅρος γεννᾶσθαι ἐκ σπέρματος, φάσκοντες τοῦτον ἐσόμενον βασιλέα ἐπʼ αὐτούς, ἄνδρα πολεμιστὴν καὶ δυνατόν, ὃς ἐπισυνάξας τὸ πᾶν ἔθνος Ἰουδαίων, πάντα τὰ ἔθνη πολεμήσας, ἀναστήσει αὐτοῖς τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ πόλιν βασιλίδα, εἰς ἣν ἐπισυνάξει ἅπαν τὸ ἔθνος, καὶ πάλιν ἐπὶ τὰ ἀρχαῖα ἔθη ἀποκαταστήσει βασιλεῦον καὶ ἱερατεῦον καὶ κατοικοῦν ἐν πεποιθήσει ἐν χρόνοις ἱκανοῖς·

English · Claude translation

For they say that his birth will be of the race of David, but not from a virgin and the Holy Spirit, rather from a woman and a man, as it is the rule for all to be born from seed; claiming that he will be king over them, a warlike and mighty man, who, having gathered the whole nation of the Jews and made war on all the nations, will raise up for them Jerusalem as the royal city, into which he will gather the whole nation, and will restore it again to its ancient customs, reigning and serving as priest and dwelling in confidence for a considerable time;

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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.

Scripture

Jer 23:5–6 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology, Eschatology

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Hippolytus, Haer. 9.30.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/30/7/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.30.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/30/7/).

Refutation of All Heresies 9.30.7

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 492

English · Claude translation

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