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Refutation of All Heresies 6.28.1

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: The Pythagoreans make the sun the craftsman of the world, set in it like a soul in a body.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 268

Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα οἱ Πυθαγόρειοι λέγουσιν, οὓς μιμούμενοι οἱ αἱρετικοὶ μεγάλα νομίζονται τισὶ λέγειν. Δημιουργὸν δὲ εἶναι τῶν γενομένων πάντων φησὶν ὁ Πυθαγόρειος λόγος τὸν μέγαν γεωμέτρην καὶ ἀριθμητὴν ἥλιον, καὶ ἐστηρίχθαι τοῦτον ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κόσμῳ, καθάπερ ἐν τοῖς σώμασι ψυχήν, ὥς φησιν ὁ Πλάτων.

English · Claude translation

These things, then, and the like the Pythagoreans say, and the heretics, imitating them, are thought by some to say great things. And the Pythagorean doctrine says that the craftsman of all things that have come to be is the great geometer and arithmetician, the sun, and that he is fixed in the whole world as the soul in bodies, as Plato says.

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Duncker–Schneidewin, 268 · 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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  • Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): ἣλιον → ἥλιον.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.28.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/28/1/).

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