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Fragments

Fragmenta · Ἀποσπάσματα

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Contents

Staged: Genesis fragments (Achelis 2.1-2.52), Balaam, Great Ode, Elkanah and Hannah. Not staged: the Proverbs, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Matthew, Talents, Two Thieves, Resurrection, Pascha and Theophany fragments, and the fragments preserved only in Syriac, Arabic, Armenian and Coptic.

  1. 7.1Samuel's heifer at Bethlehem points to the king born of David's line, anointed by the Father as king and priest.
  2. 7.2What Mary bore was the firstborn Word of God united to a firstborn man formed in her womb.
  3. 7.3The Word's visitations of his people: the second through prophets such as Samuel, the third in the flesh, when he wept over Jerusalem.
  4. 7.4The yearly feasts prefigured Christ: Passover his sacrifice as the true Passover, Pentecost his ascension offering man to God.

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Author
Hippolytus of Rome
Attribution
disputed · Fragments transmitted under Hippolytus's name, chiefly in catenae (Prokopios of Gaza's Genesis catena, Theodoret's Eranistes, Leontius of Byzantium). Achelis separates genuine from spurious fragments; only his 'echte' Genesis fragments and some Theodoret-preserved pieces are staged here. Fragment 2.7 (Jerome's Latin report of Hippolytus on Gen 27) is not staged.
Standing
Honoured by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox.
Date
ca. 200–235 (approximate) · The fragments come from lost exegetical works of different dates.
Written at
Rome, Italy (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
commentary
Reference system
Achelis's section number and fragment number: 2.N = Genesis (fragments 1-52, genuine ones, Achelis's numbers; 2.7 is Jerome's Latin and omitted); 3.1 = On the Blessings of Balaam; 4.N = On the Great Ode; 7.N = On Elkanah and Hannah
SBL abbreviation
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Text from
Hans Achelis, ed., Hippolyt's kleinere exegetische und homiletische Schriften, in Hippolytus Werke 1, GCS 1 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1897) (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))