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Refutation of All Heresies 10.9.3

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: The Naassenes teach three races and three churches, elect, called, and captive, and falsely claim the teaching came from James through Mariamne.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 502

Τοῦ παντὸς οὗτοι φάσκουσι τρία γένη, ἀγγελικόν, ψυχικόν, χοϊκόν, καὶ τρεῖς εἶναι ἐκκλησίας, ἀγγελικήν, ψυχικήν, χοϊκήν· ὀνόματα δὲ αὐταῖς, ἐκλεκτή, κλητή, αἰχμάλωτος. Ταῦτα ἐστὶ τὰ κατʼ αὐτοὺς κεφάλαια, ὡς ἐν ὀλίγῳ ἔστι καταλαβεῖν. Ταῦτά φασι παραδεδωκέναι τὸν Ἰάκωβον τὸν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ κυρίου τῇ Μαριάμνῃ, καταψευδόμενοι ἀμφοτέρων.

English · Claude translation

These claim that there are three races of the universe, angelic, psychic, and earthly; and three churches, angelic, psychic, and earthly; and their names are elect, called, and captive. These are the chief points of their teaching, as can be grasped in brief. They say that James the brother of the Lord handed these down to Mariamne, lying about both.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 502 · 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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Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Elect” and “called” echo Matt 22:14.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 10.9.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/10/9/3/).

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