Refutation of All Heresies 5.27.1

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's initiates swear the oath Elohim swore before the Good one.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 230

Ἐντεῦθεν γέγραπται δὲ καὶ ὅρκος ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ βιβλίῳ τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ Βαρούχ, ὃν ὁρκίζουσι τοὺς κατακούειν μέλλοντας τούτων τῶν μυστηρίων καὶ τελεῖσθαι παρὰ τῷ ἀγαθῷ· ὃν ὅρκον, φησίν, ὤμοσεν ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν Ἐλωεὶμ παρὰ τῷ ἀγαθῷ γενόμενος, καὶ οὐ μετεμελήθη ὀμόσας, περὶ οὗ γέγραπται, φησίν, Ὤμοσε κύριος καὶ οὐ μεταμεληθήσεται.

English · Claude translation

From this also an oath is written in the first book, entitled Baruch, which they administer to those who are about to hear these mysteries and be initiated with the Good one; this oath, he says, our father Elohim swore when he came to be with the Good one, and he did not repent of having sworn; about which it is written, he says, “The Lord swore and will not repent.”

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 230 · 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

Ps 110:4 (109:4 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

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Hippolytus, Haer. 5.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/27/1/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/27/1/).

Refutation of All Heresies 5.27.1

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 230

English · Claude translation

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