Refutation of All Heresies 10.30.5

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.

Summary: Hippolytus refers to his other works where he listed the nations.

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Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 532

ἦσαν δὲ οὗτοι (??) ἔθνη, ὧν καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα ἐκτεθείμεθα ἐν ἑτέραις βίβλοις, μηδὲ τοῦτο παραλιπόντες κατὰ τόπον, βουλόμενοι τοῖς φιλομαθέσιν ἐπιδεικνύναι ἣν ἔχομεν στοργὴν περὶ τὸ θεῖον τήν τε ἀδίστακτον γνῶσιν, ἣν ἐν πόνοις κεκτήμεθα περὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν.

English · Claude translation

and these were … nations, whose names we have also set out in other books, not leaving this out either in its place, wishing to show the studious the affection we have for the divine and the undoubting knowledge we have acquired with labor concerning the truth.

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Duncker–Schneidewin, 532 · 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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  • The numeral is unreadable. The other books are probably Hippolytus's Chronicle.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.30.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/30/5/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.30.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/30/5/).

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