# Fragments

- Author: [Hippolytus of Rome](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/hippolytus/)
- Latin title: *Fragmenta*
- Date: ca. 200–235 (approximate)
- Source: Hans Achelis, ed., Hippolyt's kleinere exegetische und homiletische Schriften, in Hippolytus Werke 1, GCS 1 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1897) (Greek text: H. Achelis, GCS 1 (1897); OCR made for this site)

- Translation: Claude, from the original text, unless a passage says otherwise; each passage below gives the translator
- Work page: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-fragmenta/
- Passages: 4

## On Elkanah and Hannah, fragment 1

- URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-fragmenta/7-1/#p-7-1
- Source: Achelis GCS 1:121
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17

Summary: Samuel's heifer at Bethlehem points to the king born of David's line, anointed by the Father as king and priest.

### Greek text

Ἄγε δή μοι, ὦ Σαμουήλ, εἰς Βηθλεὲμ ἑλκομένην τὴν δάμαλιν, ἵνα ἐπιδείξῃς τὸν ἐκ Δαβὶδ βασιλέα τικτόμενον, καὶ τοῦτον ὑπὸ πατρὸς βασιλέα καὶ ἱερέα χριόμενον.

### English translation (Claude)

Come, tell me, O Samuel, (of) the heifer led to Bethlehem, so that you may show the king born of David, and him anointed by the Father as king and priest.

### Scripture references

- 1 Sam 16:2: allusion, high confidence

### Translation notes

- From Hippolytus on Elkanah and Hannah, quoted by Theodoret, Eranistes 1.

### Citation (SBL)

Hippolytus, Frag. 7.1 (Achelis GCS 1:121; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/hippolytus-fragmenta/7-1).

## On Elkanah and Hannah, fragment 2

- URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-fragmenta/7-1/#p-7-2
- Source: Achelis GCS 1:121
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17

Summary: What Mary bore was the firstborn Word of God united to a firstborn man formed in her womb.

### Greek text

Εἰπέ μοι, ὦ μακαρία Μαρία, τί ἦν τὸ ὑπὸ σοῦ ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ συνειλημμένον, καὶ τί ἦν τὸ ὑπὸ σοῦ ἐν παρθενικῇ μήτρᾳ βασταζόμενον; λόγος γὰρ ἦν θεοῦ πρωτότοκος ἀπʼ οὐρανῶν ἐπὶ σὲ κατερχόμενος, καὶ ἄνθρωπος πρωτότοκος ἐν κοιλίᾳ πλασσόμενος, ἵνʼ ὁ πρωτότοκος λόγος θεοῦ πρωτοτόκῳ ἀνθρώπῳ συναπτόμενος δειχθῇ.

### English translation (Claude)

Tell me, blessed Mary, what was that which was conceived by you in the womb, and what was that which was carried by you in a virgin womb? For it was the firstborn Word of God coming down from heaven upon you, and a firstborn man being formed in the womb, so that the firstborn Word of God might be shown joined to a firstborn man.

### Scripture references

- Luke 1:35: echo, medium confidence

### Translation notes

- Quoted by Theodoret, Eranistes 1.

### Citation (SBL)

Hippolytus, Frag. 7.2 (Achelis GCS 1:121; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/hippolytus-fragmenta/7-2).

## On Elkanah and Hannah, fragment 3

- URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-fragmenta/7-1/#p-7-3
- Source: Achelis GCS 1:121
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17

Summary: The Word's visitations of his people: the second through prophets such as Samuel, the third in the flesh, when he wept over Jerusalem.

### Greek text

Τὴν δὴ δευτέραν, τὴν διὰ τῶν προφητῶν ὡς διὰ τοῦ Σαμουήλ, ἀνακαλῶν καὶ ἐπιστρέφων τὸν λαὸν ἀπὸ τῆς δουλείας τῶν ἀλλοφύλων· τὴν δὲ τρίτην, ἐν ᾗ ἔνσαρκος παρῆν, τὸν ἐκ τῆς παρθένου ἄνθρωπον ἀναλαβών, ὃς καὶ ἰδὼν τὴν πόλιν ἔκλαυσεν ἐπʼ αὐτῇ.

### English translation (Claude)

… the second, through the prophets, as through Samuel, calling back and turning the people from slavery to the foreigners; and the third, in which he was present in the flesh, having taken up the man from the Virgin; who also, seeing the city, wept over it.

### Scripture references

- Luke 19:41: allusion, high confidence

### Translation notes

- The beginning (the first visitation) is not preserved in the quotation (Theodoret, Eranistes 1).

### Citation (SBL)

Hippolytus, Frag. 7.3 (Achelis GCS 1:121; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/hippolytus-fragmenta/7-3).

## On Elkanah and Hannah, fragment 4

- URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-fragmenta/7-1/#p-7-4
- Source: Achelis GCS 1:122
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-17

Summary: The yearly feasts prefigured Christ: Passover his sacrifice as the true Passover, Pentecost his ascension offering man to God.

### Greek text

Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τρεῖς καιροὶ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ προετυποῦντο εἰς αὐτόν, τὸν σωτῆρα, ἵνα τὰ προφητευθέντα περὶ αὐτοῦ μυστήρια ἐπιτελέσῃ. ἐν μὲν τῷ πάσχα, ἵνα ἑαυτὸν ἐπιδείξῃ τὸν μέλλοντα ὡς πρόβατον θύεσθαι καὶ ἀληθινὸν πάσχα δείκνυσθαι, ὡς ὁ ἀπόστολος λέγει· τὸ πάσχα ἡμῶν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἐτύθη, Χριστὸς ὁ θεός. ἐν δὲ τῇ πεντηκοστῇ, ἵνα προσημήνῃ τὴν τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείαν, αὐτὸς πρῶτος εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀναβάς, καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον δῶρον τῷ θεῷ προσενέγκας.

### English translation (Claude)

And for this reason three seasons of the year were prefigured with reference to him, the Savior, so that he might fulfill the mysteries prophesied about him: at the Passover, so that he might show himself as the one who was to be sacrificed as a sheep and shown to be the true Passover, as the apostle says: “Our Passover was sacrificed for us, Christ the God”; and at Pentecost, so that he might signify beforehand the kingdom of the heavens, having himself first gone up into the heavens and offered man as a gift to God.

### Scripture references

- 1 Cor 5:7: quotation, high confidence
- Isa 53:7: allusion, medium confidence
- Exod 23:14: echo, low confidence

### Translation notes

- Quoted by Theodoret, Eranistes 2. ‘Christ the God’ is the author's own expansion of 1 Cor 5:7. The third season is not reached in the quotation.

### Citation (SBL)

Hippolytus, Frag. 7.4 (Achelis GCS 1:122; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/hippolytus-fragmenta/7-4).