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
[39]_St Clement of Rome_, II, pp. 317-477. First published in 1869; in
the later editions the argument is slightly expanded but is
otherwise unchanged.
[40]Jerome, _Vir. ill._ 61.
[41]Legge (II, p. 127) unfortunately revives Döllinger’s remarkable
explanation of this occurrence: Callistus had lent the bank’s
funds to the Jews and went to the synagogue to recover his
depositors’ money. As if anyone would expect Jews to transact
business on the Sabbath and at a synagogue service!
[42]Victor’s accession occurred about 189, and Commodus died in 192.
[43]The distinction between “martyr” and “confessor” was not yet
developed.
[44]Or perhaps restored the privileges of the office to him; when and
where Callistus was ordained is uncertain. Possibly he had the
confessor’s ordination (p. 39).
[45]Hippolytus’s account of his controversy with Callistus is, in
fact, so bitter that modern historians feel obliged to interpret
it in the sense that will make the greatest allowance for the
latter. Hence less than full justice is perhaps done nowadays to
Hippolytus.
[46]The antithesis “In time or in eternity?” seems hardly to have been
stated squarely until the beginnings of the Arian controversy.
[47]And Zephyrinus?
[48]Less probably after Zephyrinus’s death.
[49]Hebrews 6. 4-8, 10. 26-31, 12. 17.
[50]Except, perhaps, through martyrdom.
[51]Matthew 13. 30.
[52]Romans 14. 4.
[53]His most violent treatise—the Philosophumena—was perhaps omitted,
but time has so defaced the list that we cannot be certain. The
Apostolic Tradition, however, was duly listed, and it certainly
contains polemic enough.
[54]_Theologische Literaturzeitung_, 1920, col. 225.
[55]Compare the Epitomist’s “The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles
through Hippolytus”.
[56]London.
[57]Leipzig (_Texte und Untersuchungen_, VI, 4).
[58]Hippolytus’s work is printed on pp. 101-121; reprinted in Connolly
(pp. 175 ff.), and in part in the fifth edition of Duchesne’s
_Christian Worship_, London, 1919.
[59]II, pp. 97-119.
[60]The notes are systematized and amplified in the latter’s _Ancient
Church Orders_.
[61]_Unbekannte Fragmente altchristlichen Gemeindeordnungen_, Berlin
Academy.
[62]_Über die pseudoapostolischen Kirchenordnungen_, Strassburg.
[63]Facsimiles in Hauler.
[64]Compare p. 60.
[65]The oldest (Sahidic) is dated _ca._ 1005.
[66]Details in Horner.
[67]More logical and so secondary.
[68]This seems easier than Schwartz’s theory (p. 7) of a _later_
Sahidic text enlarged from the original Greek.
[69]The former cautiously.
[70]It lacks chapter 6.
[71]Epitome 4.
[72]Possibly “in those places”; so Horner interprets the Ethiopic.
[73]And Ethiopic. The Greek has “through thy beloved Son Jesus Christ
thou gavest to thy holy apostles”.
[74]So the Greek, not the Latin.
[75]Latin and Ethiopic (MSS), “Father, who knowest the heart”; perhaps
better.
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