Refutation of All Heresies 6.28.4

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, 268–270

Πάλιν τῶν δώδεκα μοιρῶν ἑκάστην διαιρεῖ εἰς μοίρας τριάκοντα, αἵτινες εἰσὶν ἡμέραι μηνός. Πάλιν αὖ τῶν τριάκοντα μοιρῶν ἑκάστην μοῖραν διαιρεῖ εἰς λεπτὰ ἑξήκοντα καὶ τῶν λεπτῶν λεπτὰ καὶ ἔτι λεπτότερα. Καὶ τοῦτο ἀεὶ ποιῶν καὶ μὴ παυόμενος, ἀλλʼ ἀθροίζων ἐκ τούτων τῶν μοιρῶν τῶν διῃρημένων καὶ ποιῶν ἐνιαυτόν, καὶ αὖθις ἀναλύων καὶ διαιρῶν τὸ συγκείμενον τὸν μέγαν ἐνιαυτὸν ἀπεργάζεται κόσμου.

English · Claude translation

Again he divides each of the twelve parts into thirty parts, which are the days of a month. Again he divides each of the thirty parts into sixty minutes, and the minutes into minutes, and still finer. And always doing this and never ceasing, but gathering from these divided parts and making a year, and again dissolving and dividing what has been composed, he produces the great year of the world.

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Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 268–270 · 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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): εἰσίν ἡμέραι → εἰσὶν ἡμέραι; καὶ αὗθις → καὶ αὖθις.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/28/4/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/28/4/).