Fragments from Other
Writings of Hippolytus.1864
| 1864
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 he1865
| 1865
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.
1866
| 1866
[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.
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