On
Psalm II
.
1205
From the Exposition of the Second
Psalm, by the Holy Bishop Hippolytus.
When he came into the world, He was manifested as God
and man. And it is easy to perceive the man in Him, when He
hungers and shows exhaustion, and is weary and athirst, and withdraws
in fear, and is in prayer and in grief, and sleeps on a boat’s
pillow, and entreats the removal of the cup of suffering, and sweats in
an agony, and is strengthened by an angel, and betrayed by a Judas, and
mocked by Caiaphas, and set at nought by Herod, and scourged by Pilate,
and derided by the soldiers, and nailed to the tree by the Jews, and
with a cry commits His spirit to His Father, and drops His head and
gives up the ghost, and has His side pierced with a spear, and is
wrapped in linen and laid in a tomb, and is raised by the Father on the
third day. And the divine in Him, on the other hand, is equally
manifest, when He is worshipped by angels, and seen by shepherds, and
waited for by Simeon, and testified of by Anna, and inquired after by
wise men, and pointed out by a star, and at a marriage makes wine of
water, and chides the sea when tossed by the violence of winds, and
walks upon the deep, and makes one see who was blind from birth, and
raises Lazarus when dead for four days, and works many wonders, and
forgives sins, and grants power to His disciples.
1205
i.e., in
our version the third. From Theodoret, Dialogue Second, entitled
᾽Ασύγχυτος
,
p. 167.