Refutation of All Heresies 5.8.18

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.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 156

Περὶ δὲ τῆς ἀνόδου αὐτοῦ, τουτέστι τῆς ἀναγεννήσεως, ἵνα γένηται πνευματικός, οὐ σαρκικός, λέγει, φησίν, ἡ γραφή· Ἄρατε πύλας οἱ ἄρχοντες ὑμῶν, καὶ ἐπάρθητε πύλαι αἰώνιοι καὶ εἰσελεύσεται ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆς δόξης, τουτέστι, θαῦμα θαυμάτων. Τίς γάρ, φησίν, ἐστὶν οὗτος ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆς δόξης; Σκώληξ καὶ οὐκ ἄνθρωπος, ὄνειδος ἀνθρώπου καὶ ἐξουθένημα λαοῦ, αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆς δόξης, ὁ ἐν πολέμῳ δυνατός.

English · Claude translation

And about his ascent, that is, his rebirth, so that he may become spiritual, not fleshly, Scripture says, he says: "Lift up the gates, you rulers, and be lifted up, you eternal gates, and the King of glory will come in," that is, a wonder of wonders. "For who," he says, "is this King of glory?" "A worm and no man, a reproach of man and despised by the people"; he is the King of glory, mighty in war.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 156 · 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 24:7–10 (23:7-Ps LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 22:6 (21:7 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Ps 24:7–10 (23:7–10 LXX) and Ps 22:6 (21:7 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): βασιλεὺς τὴς δόξης → βασιλεὺς τῆς δόξης.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.8.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/8/18/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 5.8.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/5/8/18/).