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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.

[368] Odyssey, xxiv. 5.

[369] Ibid., xxiv. 6 et seq.

[370] Ps. cxviii. 22; Isa. xxviii. 16.

[371] Eph. iii. 15.

[372] Iliad, iv. 350, ἕρκος ὀδόντων:—

“What word hath ’scaped the ivory guard that should

Have fenced it in.”

[373] Dan. ii. 45.

[374] Odyssey, xxiv. 9.

[375] Iliad, v. 246, xxiv. 201.

[376] Ps. lxxxii. 6; Luke vi. 35; John x. 34.

[377] Gal. iv. 26.

[378] Philo Judæus adopts the same imagery (see his De Agricult., lib. i.).

[379] John iii. 6.

[380] Josh. iii. 7-17.

Chapter III.—Further Exposition of the Heresy of the Naasseni; Profess to Follow Homer; Acknowledge a Triad of Principles; Their Technical Names of the Triad; Support These on the Authority of Greek Poets; Allegorize Our Saviour’s Miracles; The Mystery of the Samothracians; Why the Lord Chose Twelve Disciples; The Name Corybas, Used by Thracians and Phrygians, Explained; Naasseni Profess to Find Their System in Scripture; Their Interpretation of Jacob’s Vision; Their Idea of the “Perfect Man;” The “Perfect Man” Called “Papa” By the Phrygians; The Naasseni and Phrygians on the Resurrection; The Ecstasis of St. Paul; The Mysteries of Religion as Alluded to by Christ; Interpretation of the Parable of the Sower; Allegory of the Promised Land; Comparison of the System of the Phrygians with the Statements of Scripture; Exposition of the Meaning of the Higher and Lower Eleusinian Mysteries; The Incarnation Discoverable Here According to the Naasseni.

[381] Or, “empty.”

[382] The Abbe Cruice considers that this is taken from verses of Ezekiel, founding his opinion on fragments of these verses to be found in Eusebius’ Præparat. Evang., ix. 38.

[383] Iliad, xv. 189.

[384] Matt. xiii. 13.

[385] The commentators refer to Isa. xxviii. 10. Epiphanius,Hæres., xxv., mentions these expressions, but assigns them a different meaning. Saulasau is tribulation,Caulacau hope, and Zeesar “hope, as yet, little.” [See my note on Irenæus, p. 350, this series, and see Elucidation II.]

[386] John i. 3, 4.

[387] Gen. xliv. 2-5.

[388] Taken from Anacreon.

 

 

 

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