Refutation of All Heresies 1.22.5

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, 42

Τὰς δὲ ψυχὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων λύεσθαι ἅμα τοῖς σώμασιν, ὥσπερ καὶ συγγεννᾶσθαι αὐτοῖς τίθεται, αἷμα γὰρ αὐτὰς εἶναι, οὗ ἐξελθόντος ἢ τραπέντος ἀπόλλυσθαι ὅλον τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ᾧ ἀκολουθεῖ μήτε κρίσεις εἶναι ἐν Ἅιδου, μήτε δικαστήρια, ὡς ὅ τι ἂν δράσῃ τις ἐν τῷ βίῳ τούτῳ καὶ διαλάθῃ ἀνεύθυνον εἶναι παντελῶς. Οὕτως οὖν καὶ Ἐπίκουρος.

English · Claude translation

He holds that the souls of men are dissolved together with their bodies, just as they are born together with them; for they are blood, and when it goes out or is altered the whole man perishes. From this it follows that there are no judgments in Hades nor tribunals, so that whatever anyone does in this life, if he escapes notice, he is entirely unaccountable. So, then, Epicurus.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 42 · 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

Eschatology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): κρίσεις εἷναι → κρίσεις εἶναι; ἀνεύθυνον εἷναι → ἀνεύθυνον εἶναι.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 1.22.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/22/5/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 1.22.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/22/5/).