# Refutatio Omnium Haeresium 17.7

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, BIBAION Ε΄, Chapter 17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippolytus-scr-eccl/refutatio-omnium-haeresium/17.7

ὅταν οὖν, φησί, λέγῃ ὁ σωτήρ· »ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς«, ἐκεῖνον λέγει, ἀφ᾿ ο'Υ ὁ υἱὸς μεταλαβὼν τοὺς χαρακτῆρας μετενήνοχεν ἐνθάδε· ὅταν δὲ λέγῃ· »ὁ ὑμέτερος πατὴρ ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς ἀνθρωποκτόνς ἐστί«, τὸν ἄρχοντα καὶ δημιουργὸν τῆς ὕλης λέγει, ὃς ἀναλαβὼν τοὺς διαδοθέντας ἀπὸ τοῦ υἱοῦ χαρακτῆρας ἐγέννησεν ἐνθάδε, ὅς ἐστιν ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς ἀνθρωποκτόνος· τὸ γὰρ ἔργον αὐτοῦ φθορὰν καὶ θάνατον ἐργάζεται.

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Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, ed. Paul Wendland. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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