Refutatio Omnium Haeresium
The Refutation of All Heresies
St. Hippolytus of Rome (traditional attribution)
Edition & AttributionTranslator, publisher and source details for this edition.
- Translator
- J. H. MacMahon
- Series
- The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume V
- Editor
- Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (series editors); A. Cleveland Coxe (American edition)
- Publisher
- The Christian Literature Company, Buffalo
- Year
- 1886
- Revision
- The Refutation of All Heresies only (printed pp. 9-153). The same volume's other Hippolytus pieces, Cyprian, Caius and Novatian are not part of this text. Transcribed from the CCEL ThML of ANF V, whose integrity was audited against the dated 1886 scan before this build and found no body-text loss in any book. Each book's own table of contents is kept where the edition prints one (Books I and V to X), and Book I's unnumbered Proemium stands before its chapter I. The chapters carry no printed section numerals, so the numbered sections here are the printed paragraphs, a reading aid rather than a printed address; verse quotations are kept whole, one line per line. The work's own text only. MacMahon's and Coxe's notes are not transcribed; where a note is nothing but a scripture reference identifying the passage quoted, that reference is kept as a link at the note's position. Fifteen readings in which the CCEL text departs from the 1886 print (among them "the inner than" for "the inner man" in Book X, chapter 15, and "the emperor Trojan" for "the emperor Trajan" in Book IX, chapter 11) are corrected to the print, read off the page images, and one note the print misnumbers ("Ps. cxvii. 19") is linked to the verse actually quoted, Psalm 118:19.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- License
- public-domain-base
- Public-domain basis
- The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume V, Buffalo, The Christian Literature Company, 1886; title page and copyright page ("COPYRIGHT, 1886, BY THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY") read off the dated scan, Internet Archive antenicenefather05robeuoft, leaves n4 and n5, and the head of the work naming the translator ("[TRANSLATED BY THE REV. J. H. MACMAHON, M.A.]") at leaf n20. A pre-1930 United States publication, public domain on publication date alone, independent of renewal.
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