Doubtful Fragments on the Pentateuch.
Fragments of Discourses or Homilies.
Fragments of Discourses or Homilies.
From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, on the Divine Nature.
St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, in his Homily on the Paschal Supper.
1. The body of the Lord presented both these to the world, the sacred blood and the holy water.
Fragments from Other Writings of Hippolytus.
Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, in a letter to a certain queen.
The story of a maiden of Corinth, and a certain Magistrianus.
V.
On the Song of the Three Children.64 From the Catena Patrum in Psalmos et Cantica, vol. iii. ed. Corderianæ, pp. 951, ad v. 87.
“O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord; O ye apostles, prophets, and martyrs of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise Him, and exalt Him above all, for ever.”
We may well marvel at the words of the three youths in the furnace, how they enumerated all created things, so that not one of them might be reckoned free and independent in itself; but, summing up and naming them all together, both things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, they showed them to be all the servants of God, who created all things by the Word, that no one should boast that any of the creatures was without birth and beginning.