Refutation of All Heresies 9.31.1

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 concludes that he has set out all doctrines of Greeks and barbarians and shown the heretics' borrowings.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 492–494

Δοκεῖ μὲν ἡμῖν ἱκανῶς τὰ πάντων Ἑλλήνων τε καὶ βαρβάρων δόγματα ἐκτεθεῖσθαι, μηδὲν δὲ ἀπολελοιπέναι μήτε τῶν φιλοσοφουμένων μήτε τῶν ὑπὸ αἱρετικῶν φ[ασκο]μένων ἀναπόδεικτον, οἷς ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν ἐκτεθέντων φανερὸς γεγένηται ὁ ἔλεγχος ἢ κλεψιλογησάντων ἤ τινα ἐρανισαμένων αὐτὰ τὰ ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων πεπονημένα παραθεμένων ὡς θεῖα.

English · Claude translation

It seems to us that the doctrines of all, both Greeks and barbarians, have been sufficiently set out, and that we have left nothing unproven either of what the philosophers teach or of what is [claimed] by the heretics; and the refutation of them has become plain from what has been set out itself, showing that they either stole words or collected some things and set down as divine the very things worked out by the Greeks.

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 492–494 · 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. 9.31.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/31/1/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 9.31.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/9/31/1/).