Refutation of All Heresies 5.26.23

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: In Justin's myth Naas seduces Eve and abuses Adam, the origin of adultery and of sex between males, while Elohim's ascent shows the way up.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 224

Εὔᾳ ἐξαπατήσας αὐτὴν καὶ ἐμοίχευσεν αὐτήν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ παράνομον· προσῆλθε δὲ καὶ τῷ Ἀδὰμ καὶ ἔσχεν αὐτὸν ὡς παῖδα, ὅπερ ἐστὶ καὶ αὐτὸ παράνομον· ἔνθεν γέγονε μοιχεία καὶ ἀρσενοκοιτία. Ἀπὸ τότε ἐπεκράτησε τὰ κακὰ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις καὶ τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἐκ μιᾶς ἀρχῆς γενόμενα τῆς τοῦ πατρός. Ἀναβὰς γὰρ πρὸς τὸν ἀγαθὸν ὁ πατὴρ ὁδὸν ἔδειξε τοῖς ἀναβαίνειν θέλουσιν.

English · Claude translation

Eve, deceiving her, and committed adultery with her, which is lawless; and he approached Adam too and had him as a boy, which is itself also lawless. From this came adultery and sexual relations between males. From then on evil things prevailed among human beings, and good things too, which came from one principle, that of the Father. For the Father, by going up to the Good one, showed a way for those who wish to go up.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 224 · 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

Gen 3:13 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/23/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/23/).