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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[986] [Elucidation IX.]
[987] [Elucidation X.]
[988] The ms. reads καθ᾽ ἡδίαν, obviously corrupt. Dr. Wordsworth suggests κατ᾽ ιδιαν, i.e., “he, under pretext of arguing with them, deluded them.”
[989] It is to be noticed how the plural number is observed in this account, as keeping before the reader’s mind the episcopal office of him who was thus exercising high ecclesiastical authority. [Elucidation XI.]
[990] It is to be noticed how the plural number is observed in this account, as keeping before the reader’s mind the episcopal office of him who was thus exercising high ecclesiastical authority. [Elucidation XI.]
[991] Or, “with violence.”
[992] Hippolytus is obviously sneering at the martyrdom of Callistus, who did not in reality suffer or die for the truth. Nay, his condemnation before Fuscianus enabled Callistus to succeed entirely in his plans for worldly advancement. [The martyrdom of Callistus, so ludicrous in the eyes of our author, is doctrine in the Roman system. This heretic figures as a saint, and has his festival on the 14th of October. Maxima veneratione colitur, says the Roman Breviary.]
[993] The Latin name is written by Hippolytus in Greek letters, and means “the public fish-market.” The Piscina, one of the fourteen quarters of Rome, was the resort of money-dealers.
[994] The Pistrinum was the domestic treadmill of the Roman slaveholders.
[995] [An instance illustrative of the touching sense of moral obligation given in 2 Kings vi. 5.]
[996] See Josephus, Antiq., xix. 10.
[997] The air of Sardinia was unwholesome, if not pestilential; and for this reason, no doubt, it was selected as a place of exile for martyrs. Hippolytus himself, along with the Roman bishop Pontianus, was banished thither. See Introductory Notice.
[998] Marcia’s connection with the emperor would not seem very consistent with the Christian character which Hippolytus gives her. Dr. Wordsworth supposes that Hippolytus speaks ironically in the case of Marcia, as well as of Hyacinthus and Carpophorus. [I do not see the evidence of this. Poor Marcia, afterwards poisoned by the wretch who degraded, was a heathen who under a little light was awakening to some sense of duty, like the woman of Samaria,John iv. 19.]
[999] [Note this expression in contrast with subsequent claims to be the “Universal Bishop.”]
[1000] See Dio Cassius, lxxii. 4. [See vol. ii. p. 604, this series.]
[1001] Or, “a presbyter, though an eunuch,” thus indicating the decay of ecclesiastical discipline.
[1002] Or, “that Marcia had been brought up by him.” [See what Bunsen has to say (vol. i. pp. 126, 127, and note) upon this subject, about which we know very little.]
[1003] The cemetery of Callistus was situated in the Via Appia. [The catacombs near the Church of St. Sebastian still bear the name of this unhappy man, and give incidental corroboration to the incident.]
[1004] [Here Wordsworth’s note is valuable, p. 80. Callistus had doubtless sent letters to announce his consecration to other bishops, as was customary, and had received answers demanding proofs of his orthodoxy. See my note on the intercommunion of primitive bishops, vol. ii. p. 12, note 9; also on the Provincial System, vol. iv. pp. 111, 114. Also Cyprian, this vol. passim.]
[1005] εὐθέως μηδὲν. Scott reads εὐθέος μηδὲν. Dr. Wordsworth translates the words thus: “having no rectitude of mind.”
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