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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[1583] τρόπων. There is another reading, τόπων = of the places.
[1584] Hades, in the view of the ancients, was the general receptacle of souls after their separation from the body, where the good abode happily in a place of light (φωτεινῷ), and the evil all in a place of darkness (σκοτιωτέρῳ). See Colomesii Κειμήλια litteraria, 28, and Suicer on ᾅδης. Hence Abraham’s bosom and paradise were placed in Hades. See Olympiodorus on Eccles., iii. p. 264. The Macedonians, on the authority of Hugo Broughton, praying in the Lord’s words, “Our Father who art in Hades” (Πατὴρ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν ᾆδῃ) (Fabricius). [Hippolytus is singular in assigning the ultimate receptacle of lost spirits to this Hades. But compare vol. iii. p. 428, and vol. iv. pp. 293, 495, 541, etc.]
[1585] Cf. Constitut. Apostol., viii. 41.
[1586] [They do not pass into an intermediate purgatory, nor require prayers for “the repose of their souls.”]
[1587] τρίβολος. [Also the Pindaric citation in my note, vol. i. 74.]
[1588] In the Parallela is inserted here the word ἐπιγελῶντες, deriding them.
[1589] γέεννα.
[1590] According to the reading in Parallela, which inserts ξανθὴν = red.
[1591] The text reads καὶ οὗ, and where. But in Parallela it is καὶ οὗτοι = and these see, etc. In the same we find ὡς μήτε for καὶ τοὺς δικαίους.
[1592] [It would be hard to frame a system of belief concerning the state of the dead more entirely exclusive of purgatory, i e., a place where the souls of the faithful are detained till (by Masses and the like) they are relieved and admitted to glory, before the resurrection. See vol. iii. p. 706.]
[1593] μετενσωματῶν, in opposition to the dogma of metempsychosis.
[1594] In the Timæus.
[1595] The first of the two fragments in the Parallela ends here.
[1596] [The text Eccles. xi. 3 may be accommodated to this truth, but seems to have no force as proof.]
[1597] The second fragment extant in the Parallela begins here.
[1599] [It is not the unrighteous, be it remembered, who go to “purgatory,” according to the Trent theology, but only true Christians, dying in full communion with the Church. Hippolytus is here speaking of the ultimate doom of the wicked, but bears in mind the imagery of Luke xvi. 24 and the appeal to Abraham.]
[1600] The second fragment in the Parallela ends here.
[1601] ἐκβρασσομένη.
Against the Heresy of One Noetus.
[1603] Gallandi, p. 454.
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