Refutation of All Heresies 6.54.2

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: Because truth escaped the Demiurge, they say, his work is false and will be dissolved when its times are complete.

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Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 342–344

Ἐνταῦθα δὲ λέγουσιν, ἐκφυγούσης αὐτὸν τῆς ἀληθείας ἐπηκολουθηκέναι τὸ ψεῦδος, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πληρωθέντων τῶν χρόνων κατάλυσιν λαβεῖν αὐτοῦ τὸ ἔργον.

English · Claude translation

Here, they say, since the truth escaped him, falsehood followed, and for this reason, when the times are fulfilled, his work will meet its dissolution.

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Source: Duncker–Schneidewin, 342–344 · 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, Eschatology

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.54.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/54/2/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 6.54.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/54/2/).

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