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Refutation of All Heresies 5.26.8

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: Adam receives soul from Eden and spirit from Elohim, a symbol of their marriage.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 220

Τὸν ἄνθρωπον οὖν ἐποίησαν σύμβολον τῆς ἑνότητος αὐτῶν καὶ εὐνοίας, καὶ κατατίθενται τὰς ἑαυτῶν δυνάμεις εἰς αὐτόν, Ἐδὲμ μὲν τὴν ψυχήν, Ἐλωεὶμ δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα. Καὶ γίνεται οἱονεὶ σφραγίς τις αὕτη καὶ φιλίας ὑπόμνημα καὶ σύμβολον αἰώνιον τοῦ γάμου τῆς Ἐδὲμ καὶ τοῦ Ἐλωεὶμ ἄνθρωπος, ὁ Ἀδάμ.

English · Claude translation

They made man, then, as a symbol of their unity and affection, and they deposit their own powers in him, Eden the soul and Elohim the spirit. And man, Adam, becomes as it were a seal and memorial of love and an eternal symbol of the marriage of Eden and Elohim.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 220 · 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

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.26.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/26/8/).

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