Refutation of All Heresies 10.27.1

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: Summary of Noetus: the one Father and God of all made everything and was invisible or visible as he willed.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 528

Ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Νοητός, τῷ μὲν γένει ὢν Σμυρναῖος, ἀνὴρ ἀκριτόμυθος καὶ ποικίλος, εἰσηγήσατο τοιάνδε αἵρεσιν, ἐξ Ἐπιγόνου τινὸς εἰς Κλεομένην χωρήσασαν, καὶ οὕτως ἕως νῦν ἐπὶ τοὺς διαδόχους διαμείνασαν, λέγων ἕνα τὸν πατέρα καὶ θεὸν τῶν ὅλων· τοῦτον πάντα πεποιηκότα ἀφανῆ μὲν τοῖς οὖσι γεγονέναι ὅτε ἠβούλετο, φανῆναι δὲ τότε ὅτε ἠθέλησε·

English · Claude translation

Likewise Noetus too, a Smyrnaean by birth, a reckless talker and shifty man, introduced a heresy of this kind, which passed from a certain Epigonus to Cleomenes and so has remained until now with his successors. He says that the Father and God of all things is one; that he, having made all things, became invisible to the things that exist when he wished, and appeared at the time when he willed;

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 528 · 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, Trinity

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/27/1/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/27/1/).

Refutation of All Heresies 10.27.1

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 528

English · Claude translation

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