Refutation of All Heresies 6.50.2

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, 326

Ἡ οὖν δεκὰς ἐπισυνελθοῦσα τῇ ὀγδοάδι καὶ δεκαπλασίονα αὐτὴν ποιήσασα τὸν τῶν ὀγδοήκοντα [προεβίβασεν ἀριθμόν, καὶ τὰ ὀγδοήκοντα] πάλιν δεκαπλασιάσασα τὸν τῶν ὀκτακοσίων ἀριθμὸν ἐγέννησεν, ὥστε εἶναι τὸν ἅπαντα τῶν γραμμάτων ἀριθμὸν ἀπὸ ὀγδοάδος εἰς δεκάδα προελθόντα, [εἶναι] (??) καὶ (??) καὶ (??), ὅ ἐστιν Ἰησοῦς· τὸ γὰρ Ἰησοῦς ὄνομα κατὰ τὸν ἐν τοῖς γράμμασιν ἀριθμὸν ἔστιν ὀκτακόσια ὀγδοηκονταοκτώ.

English · Claude translation

The decad, then, joining the ogdoad and making it tenfold, [brought forth the number eighty, and the eighty] again made tenfold begot the number eight hundred, so that the whole number of the letters, proceeding from ogdoad to decad, is eight hundred and eighty and eight, which is Jesus; for the name Jesus, by the number in its letters, is eight hundred and eighty-eight.

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 326 · 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, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The numeral letters are unreadable in the digital text; the numbers are clear from the context. The bracketed words are the editor's supplement.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.50.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/50/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.50.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/50/2/).