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Refutation of All Heresies 4.2.1

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 Peratae borrowed astrological ideas for their doctrine of Aeons and powers, which Hippolytus will refute later.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 50–52

Τούτοις χρησάμενοι Εὐφράτης ὁ Περ[ατικὸς] καὶ Ἀκεμβὴς ὁ Καρύστιος καὶ ὁ λοιπὸς τούτων χορὸς τῷ λόγῳ [τῷ] τῆς ἀληθείας ἐπονομάσαντες αἰώνων στάσιν καὶ ἀπόστασιν ἀ[γαθῶν] δυνάμεων εἰς κακὰ καὶ συμφωνίας ἀγαθῶν μετὰ πονηρῶν προσαγορεύουσι, καλοῦντες τοπάρχας καὶ προαστείους καὶ ἄλλα πλεῖστα ὀνόματα· ὧν πᾶσαν τὴν ἐπικεχειρημένην αἵρεσιν ἐκθήσομαι καὶ διελέγξω, ἐπὰν εἰς τὸν περὶ τούτων λόγον φθάσωμεν.

English · Claude translation

Using these ideas, Euphrates the Peratic and Acembes the Carystian and the rest of their chorus, giving them the name of the word of truth, speak of a revolt of Aeons, an apostasy of [good] powers to evil, and agreements of good powers with wicked ones, calling them toparchs and suburbans and very many other names. I shall set out and refute the whole heresy they have attempted when we come to the account of these people.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 50–52 · 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.
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The Peratae are treated in Book 5 (5.12–18). "Aeons" are the divine emanations of the Gnostic systems.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 4.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/2/1/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 4.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/4/2/1/).

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