Refutation of All Heresies 6.9.10

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, 238

Ὁ δὲ καρπὸς τοῦ δένδρου ἐὰν ἐξεικονισθῇ καὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ μορφὴν ἀπολάβῃ, εἰς ἀποθήκην τίθεται, οὐκ εἰς τὸ πῦρ. Γέγονε μὲν γὰρ, φησίν, ὁ καρπός, ἵνα εἰς τὴν ἀποθήκην τεθῇ, τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον, ἵνα παραδοθῇ τῷ πυρί, ὅπερ ἐστὶ πρέμνον, οὐκ αὐτοῦ χάριν ἀλλὰ τοῦ καρποῦ γεγενημένον.

English · Claude translation

But the fruit of the tree, if it is brought to its full image and receives its own form, is put into the storehouse, not into the fire. For the fruit came to be,” he says, “in order to be put into the storehouse, and the chaff in order to be handed over to the fire; the chaff is the trunk, which came to be not for its own sake but for the fruit's.”

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 238 · 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.

Scripture

Matt 3:12 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

“Brought to its full image” renders ἐξεικονίζομαι, a key term of the Great Declaration for a potential power becoming fully actual.

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.9.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/9/10/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 6.9.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/6/9/10/).