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.
XII.
On the Words in Psalm cxxxix. 15: “My Substance or (Bones) Was Not Hid from Thee, Which Thou Madest in Secret.”
It is said also by those who treat of the nature and generation of animals, that the change of the blood into bone is something invisible and intangible, although in the case of other parts, I mean the flesh and nerves, the mode of their formation may be seen. And the Scripture also, in Ecclesiastes, adduces this, saying, “As thou knowest not the bones in the womb of her that is with child, so thou shalt not know the works of God.”111 Eccles. xi. 5. But from Thee was not hid even my substance, as it was originally in the lowest parts of the earth.