Fragments from Other
Writings of Hippolytus.
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I.
Now Hippolytus, a martyr for piety, who was bishop
of the place called Portus, near Rome, in his book
Against all
Heresies
, wrote in these terms:—
I perceive, then, that the matter is one of
contention. For he
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speaks thus: Christ kept the
supper, then, on that day, and then suffered; whence it is needful that
I, too, should keep it in the same manner as the Lord did. But he
has fallen into error by not perceiving that at the time when Christ
suffered He did not eat the passover of the law.
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For He was the passover that had
been of old proclaimed, and that was fulfilled on that determinate
day.
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Preserved by the author of the
Chronicon Paschale
, ex ed.
Cangii, p. 6.
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i.e., the opponent of Hippolytus, one of the forerunners of the
Quartodecimans.
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[For
pro & con
see
Speaker’s Com
., note
to
Matt. xxvi.
]