Hippolytus

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^[1280] The text is evidently corrupt: Κύριον δὲ τὸν Λόγον, νεφέλην δὲ κούφην τὸ καθαρώτατον σκῆνος, etc. The reference must be to Isa. 19.1.

III.

^[1281] Hippolytus wrote on Isaiah with the view of making the most of the favourable disposition entertained by the Emperor Alexander Severus towards the Christians, and particularly on that part where the retrogression of the sun is recorded as a sign of an extension of life to Hezekiah.

On Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

^[1282] That Hippolytus wrote on Jeremiah is recorded, so far as I know, by none of the ancients; for the quotation given in the Catena of Greek fathers on Jer. xvii. 11 is taken from his book On Antichrist, chap. lv. Rufinus mentions that Hippolytus wrote on a certain part of the prophet Ezekiel, viz., on those chapters which contain the description of the temple of Jerusalem; and of that commentary the following fragments are preserved.—De Magistris.

^[1283] διόροφον.

^[1284] 2 Chron. iii. 1, 3, 4.

I. Preface by the most holy Hippolytus, (Bishop) of Rome.

^[1285] Simon de Magistris, Daniel secundum Septuaginta, from the Codex Chisianus, Rome, 1772; and Mai, Script. vet. collectio nova, i. iii. ed. 1831, pp. 29–56.

^[1286] Shallum. See 1 Chron. iii. 15.

^[1287] 2 Kings xxiv. 10.

^[1288] 2 Kings xxv. 27. Note the confusion between Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin in what follows.

^[1289] i.e., Jehoiachin.

^[1290] Others τριμήνιον = three months.

^[1291] ἀρχιμάγειρος, “chief cook.”

^[1292] Jer. xxii. 24, etc.

^[1293] Jer. xxv. 11.

II. The interpretation by Hippolytus, (bishop) of Rome, of the visions of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar, taken in conjunction.

^[1294] The same method of explaining the two visions is also adopted by Jacobus Nisibenus, serm. v., and by his illustrious disciple Ephraem Syrus on Dan. vii. 4. [Let me again refer to Dr. Pusey’s work on Daniel, as invaluable in this connection. The comments of our author on this book and on “the Antichrist,” infra, deserve special attention, as from a disciple of the disciples of St. John himself.]

^[1295] Dan. vii.

^[1296] [True in a.d. 1885. A very pregnant testimony to our own times.]

^[1297] This is what Photius condemned in Hippolytus. Irenæus, however, held the same opinion (book v. c. 28 and 29). The same view is expressed yet earlier in the Epistle of Barnabas (sec. 15). It was an opinion adopted from the rabbis.

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