The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus: Translated into English with Introduction and NotesHippolytus, Antipope
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The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus: Translated into English with Introduction and Notes
Hippolytus, Antipope
Canon law -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Church orders, Ancient
Hippolytus closes with a final adjuration to avoid all novelties; the
way of peace consists solely in strict adherence to the past.
FOOTNOTES
[1]Luke 12. 13-16.
[2]For exceptions see, e.g., Romans 14. 14 (= Matthew 15. 11), 1
Corinthians 7. 10 (= Matthew 19. 9), 1 Clement 46. 8 (= Matthew
18. 6, in substance), 2 Clement 12. 2 (apocryphal).
[3]Especially in 2 Clement.
[4]Acts 15. 28-29.
[5]Romans 14, in particular.
[6]1 Corinthians 8. 8; 10. 25-26.
[7]Compare Revelation 2. 14, 20.
[8]Didache 13. 7, etc.
[9]Didache 13. 3, etc.
[10]So very emphatically in 1 Clement 40-41. But Clement does not
argue for a detailed parallelism between the two ministries.
[11]Didache 3. 1-6 is an instance.
[12]The reason for this appears to be that at this period the Fourth
Commandment was conceived to be wholly “ceremonial”, and to “keep
the Sabbath” was regarded as Judaizing (Ignatius, _Magnesians_ 9.
1, etc.). The belief that in Christianity the Sabbath laws have
been transferred to Sunday is of medieval origin.
[13]On these methods compare especially K. E. Kirk, _The Vision of
God_ (London, 1931), pp. 119-124.
[14]As in Wisdom 14. 25-26.
[15]Romans 1. 29-31 is largely of Greek origin; 1 Timothy 3. 2-3 and
Titus 3. 1-2 are wholly so.
[16]In 1 Clement 47. 6 the forty-five year old Corinthian church is
called “ancient”.
[17]Jude 17, Revelation 21. 14, etc. The meaning in Ephesians 2. 20 is
probably a little different.
[18]1 Clement 42. 4; 44. 1-2, etc.
[19]Even in the third century liturgical prayers were still normally
extempore, and use of a fixed form was regarded as a weakness on
the part of the officiant.
[20]Eusebius, _HE_, v, 24.
[21]See especially James Muilenburg, _The Literary Relations of the
Epistle of Barnabas and the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles_,
Marburg, 1929.
[22]39th Festal Letter (367), 7.
[23]The details of the Patristic testimony are best seen in J. R.
Harris, _The Teaching of the Apostles_, Baltimore and London,
1887.
[24]_Die Didache_, Bonn; many editions.
[25]_Didascalia Apostolorum_, Oxford, 1929.
[26]Also known as Third Clement. Occasionally—and unfortunately—called
the Apostolic Canons or the Roman Church Order.
[27]Paderborn, 1914. Dr Schermann’s theory of a very early date for
the document is individualistic.
[28]Pp. 127-138, 233-244, 295-306.
[29]Often reprinted separately.
[30]But incorrectly.
[31]Pp. 34, 78, 40.
[32]Cooper and Maclean, p. 18.
[33]_HE_, VI, 20.
[34]_Vir. ill._ 61.
[35]His festival is on August 13.
[36]Not completely legible; reproductions are not always to be
trusted.
[37]_Origenis Philosophumena_, Oxford. Books II-III are presumably
still missing, although it has been argued that what is ordinarily
called Book IV may contain them; Wendland, however, rejects this
theory (p. xvi).
[38]Especially in his _Hippolytus and Callistus_, 1853.
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