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Refutation of All Heresies 10.32.4

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: Hippolytus refers readers to his book On the Substance of the Universe for more.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 536

Ἱκανὸν οὖν [οἶμαι] νῦν τοῖς εὖ φρονοῦσιν ἀποκεκρίσθαι, οἵ, εἰ φιλομαθήσουσι καὶ τὰς τούτων οὐσίας καὶ τὰς αἰτίας τῆς κατὰ πάντα δημιουργίας ἐπιζητήσουσιν, εἴσονται ἐντυχόντες ἡμῶν βίβλῳ περιεχούσῃ Περὶ τῆς τοῦ παντὸς οὐσίας·

English · Claude translation

This, [I think], is a sufficient answer now to people of good sense, who, if they are eager to learn and seek the substances of these things and the causes of creation in every respect, will know them by reading our book On the Substance of the Universe;

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 536 · 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.

Notes

Translation notes

  • This work (Περὶ τῆς τοῦ παντὸς οὐσίας) survives only in fragments.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong breathing/accent: εὖ): εὗ φρονοῦσιν → εὖ φρονοῦσιν.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.32.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/32/4/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.32.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/32/4/).

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