Refutation of All Heresies 8.15.2

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.

Summary: By examining one's own mind and involuntary feelings, Monoimus says, one finds God within, one and many.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 430–432

ὁ θεός μου, ὁ νοῦς μου, ἡ διάνοιά μου, ἡ ψυχή μου, τὸ σῶμά μου, καὶ μάθε, πόθεν ἐστὶ τὸ λυπεῖσθαι καὶ τὸ χαίρειν καὶ τὸ ἀγαπᾶν καὶ τὸ μισεῖν καὶ τὸ γρηγορεῖν μὴ θέλοντα καὶ τὸ νυστάζειν μὴ θέλοντα καὶ τὸ ὀργίζεσθαι μὴ θέλοντα καὶ τὸ φιλεῖν μὴ θέλοντα, καὶ ἂν ταῦτα, φησίν, ἐπιζητήσῃς ἀκριβῶς, εὑρήσεις αὐτὸν ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἓν καὶ πολλὰ κατὰ τὴν κεραίαν ἐκείνην, ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ τὴν διέξοδον εὑρόντα.

English · Claude translation

‘My God, my mind, my understanding, my soul, my body’; and learn from where come grieving and rejoicing, loving and hating, waking against one's will, sleeping against one's will, becoming angry against one's will, and loving against one's will. And if you examine these things carefully,” he says, “you will find him in yourself, one and many, like that stroke, finding the way out from yourself.”

About this passage

Source

Duncker–Schneidewin, 430–432 · 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

Cite this passage

Hippolytus, Haer. 8.15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/15/2/).

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Plain text

Hippolytus, Haer. 8.15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/15/2/).