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Refutation of All Heresies 6.26.1

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: Plato, a disciple of Pythagoras, called philosophy the separation of soul from body; Pythagorean riddles call the passions Furies.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 266

ἔφη· χωρισμὸς ψυχῆς ἀπὸ σώματος, Πυθαγόρου καὶ τούτων τῶν λόγων γενόμενος μαθητής, ἐν οἷς λέγει καὶ διʼ αἰνιγμάτων καὶ τοιούτων λόγων· Ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας ἐὰν ἀποδημῇς, μὴ ἐπιστρέφου· εἰ δὲ μή, Ἐριννύες Δίκης ἐπικουροί σε μετελεύσονται· ἰδίην καλῶν τὸ σῶμα, Ἐριννύας δὲ τὰ πάθη.

English · Claude translation

said, “The separation of the soul from the body,” having become a disciple of Pythagoras and of these doctrines, in which he speaks also through riddles and sayings such as: “If you go abroad from your own, do not turn back; otherwise the Furies, helpers of Justice, will pursue you,” calling the body “your own” and the passions Furies.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 266 · 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.
Extrabiblical texts
  • Plato, Phaed. 64c–67d (Plato (works)) · allusion, medium confidence
  • Heraclitus, fragment 94 (Heraclitus (fragments)) · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Compare Plato, Phaedo 64c–67d. “The Furies, helpers of Justice” echoes Heraclitus, fragment 94 (Diels–Kranz).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/26/1/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/26/1/).

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