Hippolytus of Rome, Fragments of Discourses or Homilies

1. Take me, O Samuel, the heifer brought to Bethlehem, in order to show the king begotten of David, and him who is anointed to be king and priest by t

And for this reason three seasons of the year prefigured the Saviour Himself, so that He should fulfil the mysteries prophesied of Him. In the Passove

And an ark of imperishable wood was the Saviour Himself. For by this was signified the imperishable and incorruptible tabernacle (of His body), which

1. He who rescued from the lowest hell the first-formed man of earth when he was lost and bound with the chains of death He who came down from above,

Under the figure of Egypt he described the world and under things made with hands, idolatry and under the earthquake, the subversion, and dissolutio

Now Hippolytus, the martyr and bishop of [the Province of] Rome, in his second discourse on Daniel, speaks thus:—

Now a person might say that these men, and those who hold a different opinion, are yet near neighbours, being involved in like error. For those men, i

1. The body of the Lord presented both these to the world, the sacred blood and the holy water.

II.5 From the Discourse on the Theology or the Doctrine of Christ’s Divine Nature, extant in the Acts of the Lateran Council, under Martinus 1., ann. 649, secret. v. p. 287, vol. vii. edit. Veneto-Labb.

From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, on the Divine Nature.6 περὶ θεολογίας.

God is capable of willing, but not of not willing7 οὐ τὸ μὴ θέλειν. for that pertains only to one that changes and makes choice;8 τρεπτοῦ καὶ προαιρετοῦ. for things that are being made follow the eternal will of God, by which also things that are made abide sustained.