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Refutation of All Heresies 1.8.7

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: Anaxagoras ordered the heavenly bodies and said the sun is larger than the Peloponnese.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 22

Εἶναι δʼ ὑποκάτω τῶν ἄστρων ἥλιον καὶ σελήνην καὶ σώματά τινα συμπεριφερόμενα ἡμῖν ἀόρατα, τῆς δὲ θερμότητος μὴ αἰσθάνεσθαι τῶν ἄστρων διὰ τὸ μακρὰν εἶναι [καὶ διὰ] τὴν ἀπόστασιν τῆς γῆς· ἔτι δὲ οὐχ ὁμοίως θερμὰ τῷ ἡλίῳ διὰ τὸ χώραν ἔχειν ψυχροτέραν. εἶναι δὲ τὴν σελήνην κατωτέρω τοῦ ἡλίου πλησιώτερον ἡμῶν. Ὑπερέχειν δὲ τὸν ἥλιον μεγέθει τὴν Πελοπόννησον.

English · Claude translation

Beneath the stars are the sun and moon and certain bodies carried round with us that are invisible. We do not feel the heat of the stars because of their being far off, [and because of] their distance from the earth; and further, they are not as hot as the sun because they occupy a colder region. The moon is below the sun, nearer to us. The sun exceeds the Peloponnese in size.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 22 · 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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Hippolytus, Haer. 1.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/8/7/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 1.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/1/8/7/).

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