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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[1024] Or, “nation.”
[1025] See Josephus, De Bell. Judaic. ii. 8, from whom Hippolytus seems to have taken his account of the Jewish sects, except, as Schneidewin remarks, we suppose some other writer whom Josephus and Hippolytus themselves followed. The Abbe Cruice thinks that the author followed by Hippolytus was not Josephus, but a Christian writer of the first century, who derived his materials from the Jewish historian. Hippolytus’ text sometimes varies from the text of Josephus, as well as of Porphyry, who has taken excerpts from Josephus work.
[1026] Or “choice.”
Chapter XVI.—The Tenets of the Esseni Continued.
[1027] [The Essenes practised many pious and edifying rites; and this became Christian usage, after our Lord’s example. Matt. xiv. 19; 1 Tim. iv. 3-5.]
Chapter XX.—The Tenets of the Esseni Concluded.
[1028] [Query, unnecessarily? This seems the sense required.]
[1029] [Deut. xxiii. 13. The very dogs scratch earth upon their ordure; and this ordinance of decency is in exquisite consistency with the modesty of nature, against which Christians should never offend.]
Chapter XXI.—Different Sects of the Esseni.
[1030] [This zeal for the letter of the Second Commandment was not shared by our Lord (Matt. xxii. 20).]
Chapter XXII.—Belief of the Esseni in the Resurrection; Their System a Suggestive One.
[1031] [Important corroborations of Justin and other Fathers, vol. i. p. 286; ii. p. 338, also 81, 117, 148.]
[1032] Thus Plato’s “Laws” present many parallels to the writings of Moses. Some have supposed that Plato became acquainted with the Pentateuch through the medium of an ancient Greek version extant prior to that of the Septuagint.
Chapter XXV.—The Jewish Religion.
[1033] Or, “the law not of yesterday,” οὑ νεωστὶ τὸν νόμον. Cruice reads θεόκτιστον, as rendered above.
[1034] [This word is an index of authenticity. See on the “Little Labyrinth,” Bunsen, i. p. 243, and Wordsworth, pp. 100, 161, and his references to Routh, Lardner, etc.]
Chapter II.—Summary of the Opinions of Philosophers.
[1035] Hippolytus in what follows is indebted to Sextus Empiricus.—Adv. Phys., x.
[1036] See Karst., Fragm., viii. 45.
Chapter III.—Summary of the Opinions of Philosophers Continued.
[1037] Iliad, xiv. 201.
[1038] Ibid., vii. 99.
[1039] See Karst., Fragm., ix. p. 46.
[1040] Fabricius, in his Commentary on Sextus Empiricus, considers that this is a quotation from the Hymns of Euripides.
[1041] V. 55–57, ed. Karst.
[1042] V. 106, 107, ed. Karst.
[1043] [See De Legibus, lib. x., and note xii. p. 119, Tayler Lewis’ Plato against the Atheists.]
[1044] Cruice supplies from Theodoret: “and the second which is good is self-begotten, and the third is generated.”
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