Appendix to the
Works of Hippolytus.
Containing Dubious and Spurious
Pieces.
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A discourse1878
| 1878
This discourse seems to have been a homily addressed to the
people. Fabricius, Works of Hippolytus, vol.
ii. |
by the most blessed Hippolytus,
bishop and martyr, on the end of the world, and on Antichrist, and on
the second coming of our lord Jesus Christ.
I.
Since, then, the blessed
prophets have been eyes to us, setting forth for our behoof the clear
declaration of things secret, both through life, and through
declaration, and through inspiration1879
of the
Holy Spirit, and discoursing,
too, of things not yet come to pass,
1880
| 1880
γεγονότα.
Codex Baroccianus gives εὑρηκότα. |
in this way also
1881
to all generations they have pictured
forth the grandest subjects for contemplation and for action.
Thus, too, they
preached of the
advent of
God1882
| 1882
Others, τοῦ
υἰοῦ τοῦ
Θεοῦ, of the Son of God. |
in the
flesh to the
world, His
advent
by the spotless and
God-bearing
1883
| 1883
θεοτόκου.
[The epithet applied to the Blessed Virgin by the “Council of
Ephesus,” against Nestorius, a.d.
431. Elucidation, p. 259.] This is one of those terms which
some allege not to have been yet in use in the time of
Hippolytus. But, as Migne observes, if there were no other
argument than this against the genuineness of this discourse, this
would not avail much, as the term is certainly used by Origen,
Methodius, and Dionysius Alex., who were nearly coeval with
Hippolytus. |
Mary in the way of
birth and growth,
and the manner of His
life and conversation with men, and His
manifestation by
baptism, and the new
birth that was to be to all men,
and the
regeneration by the laver; and the multitude of His
miracles,
and His
blessed passion on the
cross, and the insults which He bore at
the
hands of the
Jews, and His
burial, and His descent to
Hades, and
His ascent again, and redemption of the spirits that were of
old,
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and the
destruction of
death, and His
life-giving awaking from the dead, and
His re-creation of the whole world, and His assumption and return to
heaven, and His reception of the Spirit, of which the apostles were
deemed worthy, and again the second coming, that is destined to declare
all things. For as being designated
seers,
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they of
necessity signified and spake of these things
beforetime.
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