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Refutation of All Heresies 5.13.10

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: Astrologers speak of zones where planets are stronger, of harmful and helpful planets, and of their aspects to one another.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 182

Καὶ γὰρ ὅρια τῶν ἀστέρων οἱ ἀστρολόγοι λέγουσιν, ἐν οἷς μᾶλλον δύνασθαι φάσκουσι τοὺς ἄρχοντας ἀστέρας, οἷον [ἔν τισι μὲν κακοποιοῦσιν], ἔν τισι δὲ ἀγαθοποιοῦσιν, ὧν καί τινας κακοποιοὺς λέγουσι, τινὰς δὲ ἀγαθοποιούς. Ἐπιβλέπειν δὲ λέγονται ἀλλήλους καὶ συμφωνεῖν ἀλλήλοις, ὡς οἱ κατὰ τρίγωνον [ἢ τετράγωνον φαινόμενοι.

English · Claude translation

For the astrologers also speak of the “boundaries” of the stars, in which they claim the ruling stars have greater power: for example, [in some they do harm], in others good; and some of them they call maleficent, others beneficent. And they are said to look upon one another and to be in harmony with one another, as those that appear in trine [or in square.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 182 · 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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  • The bracketed words are the editor's supplement; the bracket opened here closes in the next section.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.13.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/13/10/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.13.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/13/10/).

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