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Refutation of All Heresies 5.12.5

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: They cite Colossians on the fullness dwelling bodily in Christ, and say seeds of power came down from the upper worlds.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 178

Καὶ τοῦτο εἶναι φησὶ τὸ λεγόμενον· Πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα εὐδόκησε κατοικῆσαι ἐν αὐτῷ σωματικῶς, καὶ πᾶσά ἐστιν ἐν αὐτῷ ἡ θεότης τῆς οὕτω διῃρημένης τριάδος. Κατενηνέχθαι γάρ φησιν ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπερκειμένων κόσμων δύο, τοῦ τε ἀγεννήτου καὶ τοῦ αὐτογενοῦς, εἰς τοῦτον τὸν κόσμον, ἐν ᾧ ἐσμὲν ἡμεῖς, παντοίων δυνάμεων σπέρματα.

English · Claude translation

And this, he says, is what is said: "All the Pleroma was pleased to dwell in him bodily," and all the divinity of the triad so divided is in him. For he says that from the two worlds lying above, the unbegotten and the self-begotten, seeds of all kinds of powers have been brought down into this world in which we are.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 178 · 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
  • Col 1:19 · quotation, high confidence
  • Col 2:9 · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation combines Col 1:19 and Col 2:9.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/12/5/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/12/5/).

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