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.
Fragments from Other Writings of Hippolytus.138 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. Preserved by the author of the Chronicon Paschale, ex ed. Cangii, p. 6.
I.
Now Hippolytus, a martyr for piety, who was bishop of the place called Portus, near Rome, in his book Against all Heresies, wrote in these terms:—
I perceive, then, that the matter is one of contention. For he139 περὶ θεολογίας. i.e., the opponent of Hippolytus, one of the forerunners of the Quartodecimans. speaks thus: Christ kept the supper, then, on that day, and then suffered; whence it is needful that I, too, should keep it in the same manner as the Lord did. But he has fallen into error by not perceiving that at the time when Christ suffered He did not eat the passover of the law.140 οὐ τὸ μὴ θέλειν. [For pro & con see Speaker’s Com., note to Matt. xxvi.] For He was the passover that had been of old proclaimed, and that was fulfilled on that determinate day.