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Refutation of All Heresies 6.10.2

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: Simon cites “all flesh is grass” and makes the enduring word of the Lord the word born in the mouth.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 238

Ἀλλὰ περὶ τῆς ἐκκρίσεως αὐτοῦ καὶ διακρίσεως ἱκανῶς, φησίν, εἴρηκεν ἡ γραφή, καὶ πρὸς διδασκαλίαν ἀρκεῖ τοῖς ἐξεικονισμένοις τὸ λεχθέν· ὅτι πᾶσα σὰρξ χόρτος, καὶ πᾶσα δόξα σαρκὸς ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου. Ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος, καὶ τὸ ἄνθος αὐτοῦ ἐξέπεσε· τὸ δὲ ῥῆμα κυρίου μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Ῥῆμα δέ, φησίν, ἐστὶ κυρίου τὸ ἐν στόματι γεννώμενον ῥῆμα καὶ λόγος, ἄλλῃ δὲ χωρίον γενέσεως οὐκ ἔστι.

English · Claude translation

“But about its secretion and separation,” he says, “Scripture has said enough, and for the teaching of those who have been brought to their full image what was said suffices: that ‘all flesh is grass, and all the glory of flesh like the flower of grass. The grass withered, and its flower fell off; but the word of the Lord remains forever.’ The word of the Lord,” he says, “is the word and speech born in the mouth; and there is no other place of its generation.”

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 238 · 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.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Isa 40:6–8 in the form found in 1 Pet 1:24–25.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/10/2/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/10/2/).

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