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Refutation of All Heresies 10.30.6

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: The line runs back through Eber, Shelah, Cainan, and Arphaxad to Shem and Noah, in whose time came the worldwide flood unknown to other nations.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 532

Τούτου δὲ τοῦ Ἕβερ γίνεται πατὴρ Σαλά, τούτου δὲ Καϊνᾶν, τούτου δὲ Ἀρφαξάδ, οὗ γίνεται Σήμ, τούτου δὲ Νῶε, ἐφʼ οὗ ὁ κατὰ πάντα κόσμον γίνεται κατακλυσμός, οὗ οὔτε Αἰγύπτιοι οὔτε Χαλδαῖοι οὔτε Ἕλληνες μέμνηνται, οἷς κατὰ τόπους οἵ τε ἐπὶ τοῦ Ὠγύγου καὶ Δευκαλίωνος γεγένηνται κατακλυσμοί. Εἰσὶν οὖν καὶ ἐπὶ τούτων γενεαὶ (??), ἔτη (??).

English · Claude translation

And the father of this Eber is Shelah, his Cainan, his Arphaxad, whose father is Shem, his Noah, in whose time came the flood over the whole world, which neither Egyptians nor Chaldeans nor Greeks remember, among whom the local floods of Ogyges and Deucalion occurred. There are, then, in these … generations, … years.

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Source
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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Translation notes

  • Cainan between Arphaxad and Shelah follows the Greek text (Gen 11:12–13 LXX; Luke 3:36). Numerals are unreadable.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.30.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/30/6/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.30.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/30/6/).

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