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  • Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, in a letter to a certain queen.
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    III.1868

    1868 From a Letter of Hippolytus to a certain queen. In Theodoret’s Dial. II., bearing the title “Unmixed” (ἀσύγχυτος), and Dial. III., entitled “Impassible” (ἀπαθης) [pp. 238–239 supra].

    Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, in a letter to a certain queen.1869

    1869 On the question as to who this queen was, see Stephen le Moyne, in notes to the Varia Sacra, pp. 1103, 1112. In the marble monument mention is made of a letter of Hippolytus to Severina.  [Bunsen decides that she was only a princess, a daughter of Alexander Severus. See his Hippolytus, i. p. 276.]

    1. He calls Him, then, “the first-fruits of them that sleep,”1870

    1870 1 Cor. xv. 20.

    as the “first-begotten of the dead.”1871

    1871 Col. i. 18.

    For He, having risen, and being desirous to show that that same (body) had been raised which had also died, when His disciples were in doubt, called Thomas to Him, and said, “Reach hither; handle me, and see:  for a spirit hath not bone and flesh, as ye see me have.”1872

    1872 John xx. 27; Luke xxiv. 39.

    2. In calling Him the first-fruits, he testified to that which we have said, viz., that the Saviour, taking to Himself the flesh out of the same lump, raised this same flesh, and made it the first-fruits of the flesh of the righteous, in order that all we who have believed in the hope of the Risen One may have the resurrection in expectation.

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