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Refutation of All Heresies 10.27.3

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: Summary of Callistus: one God, Father and Son by name, one Spirit in substance; God is not other than the Word.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 528–530

Τούτων τὴν αἵρεσιν ἐκράτυνε Κάλλιστος, οὗ τὸν βίον ἐκτεθείμεθα ἀσφαλῶς, ὃς καὶ αὐτὸς αἵρεσιν ἀπεγέννησεν· ἐξ ὧν ἀφορμὰς λαβὼν καὶ αὐτὸς ὁμολογῶν ἕνα εἶναι τὸν πατέρα καὶ θεὸν τοῦτον δημιουργὸν τοῦ παντός, τοῦτον δὲ εἶναι υἱὸν ὀνόματι μὲν λεγόμενον καὶ ὀνομαζόμενον, οὐσίᾳ δὲ [ἓν] εἶναι [πνεῦμα], πνεῦμα γάρ, φησίν, ὁ θεὸς οὐχ ἕτερον ἐστι παρὰ τὸν λόγον ἢ ὁ λόγος παρὰ τὸν θεόν.

English · Claude translation

Callistus strengthened their heresy, whose life we have set out accurately; he too brought forth a heresy. Taking his starting points from them, he too confesses that the Father is one, and that this God is the Demiurge of the universe, and that he is Son, spoken of and named so by name, but in substance [one Spirit]. For God, he says, is Spirit, not other than the Word, nor is the Word other than God.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 528–530 · 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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Topics
Heresy, Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

  • “God is Spirit” echoes John 4:24. The bracketed words are editorial supplements. See 9.11–12 for Hippolytus's hostile account of Callistus.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.27.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/27/3/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.27.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/27/3/).

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