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.

V.15 From the same Discourse. From Theodoret’s Second Dialogue, bearing the title “Unmixed,” ἀσύγχυτος; Works, vol. iv. p. 88.

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 Passover season, so as to exhibit Himself as one destined to be sacrificed like a sheep, and to prove Himself the true Paschal-lamb, even as the apostle says, “Even Christ,” who is God, “our passover was sacrificed for us.”16 1 Cor. v. 7. And at Pentecost so as to presignify the kingdom of heaven as He Himself first ascended to heaven and brought man as a gift to God.17 [Man’s nature was never before in heaven. John iii. 13; Acts ii. 34.]