Hippolytus

Footnotes

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.

^[389] John ii. 1-11.

^[390] Matt. xiii. 33-34; Luke xvii. 21.

^[391] John vi. 53; Mark x. 38.

^[392] John v. 37.

^[393] ἀποτεταγμένου: some read ἀποτεταμένου.

^[394] Ps. xxix. 3, 10.

^[395] Ps. xxii. 20-21; xxxv. 17.

^[396] Isa. xli. 8; xliii. 1-2.

^[397] Isa. xlix. 15.