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.
X.
On Psalm cxix. 30–32
He who loves truth, and never utters a false word with his mouth, may say, “I have chosen the way of truth.” Moreover, he who always sets the judgments of God before his eyes, and remembers them in every action, will say, “Thy judgments have I not forgotten.” And how is our heart enlarged by trials and afflictions! For these pluck out the thorns of anxious thoughts within us, and enlarge the heart for the reception of the divine laws. For, says he, “in affliction Thou hast enlarged me.” Then do we walk in the way of God’s commandments, well prepared for it by the endurance of trials.