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Refutation of All Heresies 8.13.2

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: Monoimus reads Colossians' “all the fullness dwelling bodily” as the numbers contained in the iota.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 426

Καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ εἰρημένον· ὅτι πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα ηὐδόκησε κατοικῆσαι ἐπὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου σωματικῶς· αἱ γὰρ τοιαῦται τῶν ἀριθμῶν συνθέσεις ἐξ ἁπλῆς καὶ ἀσυνθέτου τῆς μιᾶς κεραίας τοῦ ἰῶτα σωματικαὶ γεγόνασι, φησίν, ὑποστάσεις.

English · Claude translation

And this is what is said: that “all the fullness was pleased to dwell” on the Son of Man “bodily”; for such compositions of numbers from the simple and uncompounded one stroke of the iota have become, he says, bodily subsistences.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 426 · 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
  • Col 1:19 · quotation, high confidence
  • Col 2:9 · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation combines Col 1:19 and 2:9.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/13/2/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/13/2/).

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