Syriac Fragments on Ezekiel and the Passover

Translated by Claude from H. Achelis's German translation (1897) of the Syriac; neither is shown

From the holy Hippolytus, from the commentary on the prophet Ezekiel. So too Ezekiel showed those living creatures that praise God, drawing attention, in the four forms of the four evangelists, to their working, by which all four quarters of the world were filled, to show forth the glory of the Father. “The one living creature,” he says, “had four forms”; because each form is a Gospel, it appears in a fourfold way. The first form, he says, which was like an ox, signifies the priestly glory of Jesus, which Luke describes. The second, which was like a lion, signifies the leadership and kingly dignity of that lion “who comes from the tribe of Judah”; this Matthew has set forth. The third was like a man and signifies the Son's capacity to suffer and the lowly nature of human beings; this Mark has described. But the fourth, that of the eagle, teaches the spiritual mystery of his power and might, which flies in the heaven of the Word; this John proclaims.

Translated by Claude from H. Achelis's German translation (1897) of the Syriac; neither is shown

From the same (that is, from Bishop Hippolytus). And the virgin gave birth, the Living One lay at his mother's breast, the Light received baptism, the Lord was tempted, the Judge was judged; the one incapable of suffering suffered in the flesh, and the Immortal died; the Heavenly One was buried and rose from the dead. Are these not new things? That the one incapable of suffering suffered, and yet remained incapable of suffering, is that nothing new? That he who was buried should rise from the dead, is this nothing new? Yes indeed: what has never belonged to ordinary events is something new. Or can you claim to me, man, that such a thing happened before Christ came? You cannot. But if such things happened first in Christ, then by that very fact it is a new mystery: new because of the New Testament, because of the new church, because of the new salvation, because of the new kingdom, because of you, who are saved in a new way. For your salvation is new, since you are saved in a new way, through the cross and the nails of God.

Translated by Claude from H. Achelis's German translation (1897) of the Syriac; neither is shown

Dionysius Bar Salibi, Commentary on the Gospels: From the holy Hippolytus of Rome and Mar Isaac. Our Lord did not eat the Passover of the law on that evening; rather, that was a Passover for his disciples, inasmuch as from his baptism onward he never again ate the Passover. Bar Hebraeus, Storehouse of Mysteries: The holy Hippolytus of Rome says: The Lord did not eat the Passover on that day, for it was to be eaten at the dawn of the day; rather, he only handed on the sacrament.