Refutation of All Heresies 10.30.7

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: Noah alone with his family survived the flood in the ark, whose remains are shown in Ararat; so the God-fearing race is older than all others.

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Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 532–534

Οὗτος εὐσεβέστατος γενόμενος καὶ θεοφιλὴς μόνος ἅμα γυναικὶ καὶ τέκνοις καὶ ταῖς τούτων τρισὶ γυναιξὶ διέφυγε τὸν γενόμενον κατακλυσμὸν ἐν κιβωτῷ διασωθείς, ἧς καὶ τὰ μέτρα καὶ τὰ λείψανα, καθὼς ἐκτεθείμεθα, ἕως νῦν ἀποδείκνυται ἐν ὄρεσιν Ἀραρὰδ καλουμένοις, οὖσι πρὸς τὴν τῶν Ἀδιαβηνῶν χώραν. Ἐνιδεῖν οὖν ἔστι τοῖς φιλοπόνως ἱστορεῖν βουλομένοις, ὡς φανερῶς ἐπιδέδεικται τὸ τῶν θεοσεβῶν γένος ἀρχαιότερον [ὂν] πάντων Χαλδαίων, Αἰγυπτίων, Ἑλλήνων. Τί δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἐπάνω τοῦ Νῶε καὶ θεοσεβεῖς καὶ θεοῦ ὁμιλητὰς ὀνομάζειν νῦν χρή, ἱκανῆς οὔσης πρὸς τὸ προκείμενον ταύτης τῆς περὶ ἀρχαιότητος μαρτυρίας;

English · Claude translation

He, being most devout and dear to God, alone with his wife and children and their three wives escaped the flood that came, being saved in an ark, whose measurements and remains, as we have set out, are shown until now in the mountains called Ararat, which are toward the country of the Adiabenians. Those who wish to inquire diligently can see, then, how plainly it has been shown that the race of the God-fearing is older than all the Chaldeans, Egyptians, and Greeks. And why should we now name those before Noah who were God-fearing and companions of God, when this testimony to antiquity is sufficient for the purpose?

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 532–534 · 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.

Scripture

Gen 7:7 · allusion, high confidence
Gen 8:4 · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions are Gen 6:9, 7:7, and 8:4.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent: οὖν): Ἐνιδεῖν οὗν → Ἐνιδεῖν οὖν.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.30.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/30/7/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.30.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/30/7/).

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