Refutation of All Heresies 1.20.2

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.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 38

τὴν μὲν οὖν οὐσίαν τοιαύτην εἶναι, οἷον θεόν, ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἕκαστον τῶν τῷ ὁμοίῳ λόγῳ ὑποπεσεῖν δυναμένων. Περὶ δὲ τὰ συμβεβηκότα θεωρεῖται τὸ μὲν ποιόν, οἷον λευκόν, μέλαν· τὸ δὲ ποσόν, οἷον δίπηχυ, τρίπηχυ· τὸ δὲ πρὸς τί, οἷον πατήρ, υἱός· τὸ δὲ ποῦ, οἷον Ἀθήνησι, Μεγαροῖ· τὸ δὲ πότε, οἷον ἐπὶ τῆς δεκάτης ὀλυμπιάδος· τὸ δὲ ἔχειν, οἷον κεκτῆσθαι· τὸ δὲ ποιεῖν, οἷον γράφειν καὶ ὅλως ἐνεργεῖν τι· τὸ δὲ κεῖσθαι, οἷον κατακεῖσθαι· τὸ δὲ πάσχειν, οἷον τύπτεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

Substance, then, is such as God, man, and each of the things that can fall under the same definition. Among the accidents are observed quality, such as white, black; quantity, such as two cubits, three cubits; relation, such as father, son; where, such as at Athens, at Megara; when, such as in the tenth Olympiad; having, such as possessing; acting, such as writing and in general doing something; position, such as lying down; being acted upon, such as being struck.

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 38 · 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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): τὴν μὲν οὗν οὐσίαν → τὴν μὲν οὖν οὐσίαν.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 1.20.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/20/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 1.20.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/20/2/).