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Refutation of All Heresies 5.26.35

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: Justin reads other Greek myths, Ganymede and Danae, as his own story.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 228

Καὶ ὅταν λέγωσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, ὅτι ἀετὸς ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὸν Γανυμήδην, ὁ ἀετός ἐστιν ὁ Νάας, ὁ δὲ Γανυμήδης ὁ Ἀδάμ· καὶ ὅταν λέγωσιν, ὅτι ὁ χρυσὸς ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν Δανάην καὶ ἐπαιδοποίησεν ἐξ αὐτῆς, ὁ χρυσός ἐστιν ὁ Ἐλωείμ, Δανάη δὲ ἐστιν ἡ Ἐδέμ. Ὁμοίως δὲ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον πάντας τοὺς τοιούτους λόγους μύθους ἐμφερεῖς ὄντας παρατιθέμενοι διδάσκουσιν.

English · Claude translation

And when people say that an eagle came upon Ganymede, the eagle is Naas and Ganymede is Adam; and when they say that gold came upon Danae and begot a child from her, the gold is Elohim and Danae is Eden.” In the same way they teach by adducing all such accounts that resemble myths.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 228 · 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

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  • Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): ἐμφερεῖς. ὄντας → ἐμφερεῖς ὄντας.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.35 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/35/).

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