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Hippolytus, Against Noetus
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SANCTI HIPPOLYTI ARCHIEPISCOPI ET MARTYRIS CONTRA HAERESIN NOETI CUJUSDAM Francisco Turriano interprete. (GALLAND, ibid. p. 454.)
(65) ‹τὸ μὲν γένος ἦν Σμυρναῖος› · printed under col 803
Σμυρναῖος. Smyrnaeum Noetum fuisse ait etiam Theodoretus lib. III Haeret. fab., c. 3, et Damascenus sect. LVII, qui solet Epiphanium sequi; et tamen apud Epiphanium, haeresi 57, legas Noetum fuisse Ἀσιανὸν τῆς Ἐφέσου πόλεως. FABRIC.
Σμυρναῖος. That Noetus was a Smyrnaean is stated also by Theodoret, book 3 of the Compendium of Heretical Fables, ch. 3, and by Damascene, section 57, who usually follows Epiphanius; and yet in Epiphanius, heresy 57, you may read that Noetus was an Asian of the city of Ephesus. FABRICIUS.
(66) ‹πολλοῦ χρόνου γενόμενος› · printed under col 803
Οὐ.... γενόμενος. Epiphanius ait Noetum prodidisse haeresim suam ante annos circiter 130; οὐ πρὸ ἐτῶν πλειόνων, ἀλλ' ὡς πρὸ χρόνου τῶν τούτων ἑκατὸν τριάκοντα, πλείω ἢ ἐλάσσω. Scripsit Epiphanius anno Christi 375. His si centum ac triginta demas, manet annus 245. Mox idem testatur Noetum, ἔναγχος, « paulo post, » una cum fratre mortuum esse. ID.
Οὐ.... γενόμενος. Epiphanius says that Noetus put forth his heresy about 130 years before: "not many years ago, but about a hundred and thirty years before these times, more or less." Epiphanius wrote in the year of Christ 375. If you take a hundred and thirty from these, the year 245 remains. Shortly after, the same writer attests that Noetus, ἔναγχος, "a little later," died together with his brother. THE SAME.
(67) ‹πεπονθέναι καὶ ἀποτεθνηκέναι› · printed under cols 803–804
Ἔφη.... ἀποτεθνηκέναι. Turrianus, apud Fabricium, hunc locum ita interpretatur: « Dixit hic Christum esse eumdem Patrem, ipsumque Patrem genitum esse et passum. » Versionem praetulimus cl. Wesselingii, Probabil., cap. 26, p. 227.
Ἔφη.... ἀποτεθνηκέναι. Turrianus, in Fabricius, translates this passage thus: "This man said that Christ is the same as the Father, and that the Father Himself was born and suffered." We have preferred the version of the celebrated Wesseling, Probabilia, ch. 26, p. 227.
(68) ‹τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ Ἀαρών› · printed under col 804
Ἔλεγεν.... Ἀαρών. Ita et Epiphanius, et Damascenus. Sed Philastrius haeresi 53: « Noetiani insensati, ἀνόητοι, cujusdam nomine Noeti... hic etiam dicebat se Moysem esse, et fratrem suum Eliam prophetam. » FABRIC.
Ἔλεγεν.... Ἀαρών. So also Epiphanius and Damascene. But Philastrius, heresy 53: "The Noetians, senseless ones, ἀνόητοι, [followers] of one named Noetus... he also said that he was Moses, and his brother Elijah the prophet." FABRICIUS.
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Συσκευάσας. Tantum decem fuisse, Epiphanius adnotavit. ID.
Συσκευάσας. Epiphanius noted that there were only ten. THE SAME.
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Τί οὖν κακόν. Apud Epiphanium qui ad verbum propemodum eadem de presbyteris ex Hippolyto, licet haud nominato, refert pag. 480: Τί γὰρ κακὸν πεποίηκα; ἕνα Θεὸν δοξάζω, ἕνα ἐπίσταμαι, καὶ οὐκ ἄλλον πλὴν αὐτοῦ, γεννηθέντα, ἀποθανόντα. ID.
Τί οὖν κακόν. In Epiphanius, who relates almost word for word the same things about the presbyters from Hippolytus, though without naming him, p. 480: "For what evil have I done? I glorify one God, I know one, and no other besides Him, Who was born, Who died." THE SAME.
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Ἕνα Θεόν, κ. τ. λ. Quae sequuntur, sunt ipsa verba Symboli, quale exstat apud Irenaeum lib. I, c. 2 seq., lib. III, c. 4; Tertullianum contra Praxeam, c. 2, et De Praescript., c. 13, et De virginibus velandis, c. 1, etc. FABRIC.
Ἕνα Θεόν, etc. What follows is the very words of the Creed, such as it stands in Irenaeus, book 1, ch. 2 and following, book 3, ch. 4; in Tertullian, Against Praxeas, ch. 2, and On Prescription, ch. 13, and On the Veiling of Virgins, ch. 1, etc. FABRICIUS.
(72) ‹ἐξέωσαν τῆς ἐκκλησίας› · printed under col 805
Ἐξέωσαν τῆς Ἐκκλησίας. Noetum damnatum a Tranquillo episcopo Chalcedoniorum Syriae, scribit auctor Praedestinati, cap. 30. Quod autem in Synodico libello cap. 50, legis in Synodo Romana damnatum Noetum a Papa Victore, temporum ratio non patitur. Sed sunt quaedam et alia in illo Synodico parum accurate tradita, licet scriptum ipsum alioqui est neutiquam contemnendum. ID.
Ἐξέωσαν τῆς Ἐκκλησίας. The author of the Praedestinatus, ch. 30, writes that Noetus was condemned by Tranquillus, bishop of the Chalcedonians of Syria. But what you read in the Synodical Book, ch. 50, that Noetus was condemned in a Roman synod by Pope Victor, the reckoning of the dates does not allow. But there are also some other things in that Synodicon handed down with little accuracy, although the writing itself is otherwise by no means to be despised. THE SAME.
(73) ‹καὶ αὐτοῖς μονόκωλα› · printed under col 806, continued under col 807
Μονόκ. Μονόκωλα apparet adverbialiter poni pro μονοκώλως et μονοτύπως, quibus verbis Epiphanius, pag. 481, Hippolyti vestigiis insistens utitur: Βούλονται δὲ διηγεῖσθαι μονοκώλως τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ὡς Θεόδοτος. Sensus est, Noetianos ad unum tantummodo in explicandis S. Scripturae de Christo dictis veluti membrum respicere, divinam scilicet naturam: uti vicissim Theodotus ad alterum recurrens extremum in sola haerebat humanitate, et Christum nudum esse hominem affirmabat. De Theodoto praeter alios meminit etiam Timotheus presbyter a Cotelerio editus Monument. tom. III, pag. 389: Τοῦτον τὸν Θεόδοτόν φασιν τῆς τοῦ Σαμωσατέως αἱρέσεως ἀρχηγὸν καὶ πατέρα γενέσθαι, πρῶτον εἰπόντα τὸν Χριστὸν ψιλὸν ἄνθρωπον. Denique observandum, quod τῷ μονοκώλως, infra c. 4 opponitur ὁλοκλήρως.
Μονόκ. It appears that μονόκωλα is used adverbially for μονοκώλως and μονοτύπως, words which Epiphanius uses, p. 481, following in the footsteps of Hippolytus: "They wish to expound in a one-sided way, in this manner, like Theodotus." The sense is that the Noetians, in explaining the sayings of Holy Scripture about Christ, look only to one member, as it were, namely the divine nature; just as Theodotus, running in turn to the other extreme, stuck to the humanity alone, and affirmed that Christ was a mere man. Of Theodotus, besides others, mention is made also by Timothy the presbyter, edited by Cotelier, Monumenta, vol. 3, p. 389: "This Theodotus, they say, became the founder and father of the heresy of the Samosatene, having first said that Christ was a mere man." Finally it should be observed that to μονοκώλως is opposed ὁλοκλήρως below, ch. 4.
29 ‹Deus patrum tuorum› · printed under cols 805–806 Exod. III, 6.
Exod. 3:6.
30 ‹alii dii praeter me› · printed under cols 805–806 Exod. XX, 3.
Exod. 20:3.
31 ‹post me non est alius› · printed under cols 805–806 Isa. XLIV, 6.
Isa. 44:6.
32 ‹cum hominibus conversatus est› · printed under cols 805–806 Baruch. III, 36-38.
Bar. 3:36–38.
33 ‹Deus Israel Salvator› · printed under cols 805–806 Isa. XLV, 14.
Isa. 45:14.
34 ‹benedictus in saecula› · printed under cols 805–806 Rom. IX, 5.
Rom. 9:5.
35 ‹ex quo omnis paternitas› · printed under cols 807–808 Ephes. III, 15.
Eph. 3:15.
36 ‹et nos in ipso› · printed under cols 807–808 I Cor. VIII, 6.
1 Cor. 8:6.
37 ‹Aethiopum et Sabaim› · printed under cols 807–808 Isa. XLV, 14.
Isa. 45:14.
38 ‹Deus Israel Salvator› · printed under cols 807–808 Ibid. 11-15.
Ibid. 11–15.
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Οἰκονομίαν. Vid. in hunc locum infra adnotata ad cap. 14.
Οἰκονομίαν. On this passage see what is noted below at ch. 14.
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Ἰησοῦν. Jesu nomen hoc loco addunt Epistolae ad Rom. codices quidam, veteresque scriptores, ut a Jo. Millio adnotatum. FABRIC.
Ἰησοῦν. Some manuscripts of the Epistle to the Romans, and ancient writers, add the name of Jesus in this place, as has been noted by John Mill. FABRICIUS.
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Ὁ Λόγος... ἀπεργασάμενος. « Verbum Dei operatum est Deo unum Filium. » Id est Verbum Dei fecit, ut qui erat unus Filius Dei, idem ipse esset unus Filius hominis, quia in hypostasi sua assumpsit carnem. Sic enim Verbum caro factum est. FRANCISCUS TURRIANUS.
Ὁ Λόγος... ἀπεργασάμενος. "The Word of God wrought one Son to God." That is, the Word of God brought it about that He Who was the one Son of God should Himself also be the one Son of Man, because He assumed flesh in His own hypostasis. For thus the Word was made flesh. FRANCIS TURRIANUS.
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Λόγος γὰρ ἦν. Male apud Fabricium, Λόγος σὰρξ ἦν.
Λόγος γὰρ ἦν. Wrongly in Fabricius: Λόγος σὰρξ ἦν.
(78) ‹Ἰσραὴλ δὲ τίς ἐστιν› · printed under col 809, continued under col 810 and under col 811
Ἰσραήλ, κ. τ. λ. Nomen ישראל Philoni De praemiis et poenis, pag. 710, atque alibi, exponitur ὁρῶν Θεόν, איש ראה אל. Sic et Constitutiones apostol., VII, 37, VIII, 15. Eusebius XI, 6, pag. 519, Praeparat., multique alii. Quo etiam referes eos quibus Israel est ὁρατικὸς ἀνὴρ καὶ θεωρητικός, ut Eusebio, pag. 310, Praeparat., vel νοῦς ὁρῶν Θεόν, ut S. Optato in fine libri II; Didymo apud Hieron. et Hieronymo ipsi pluribus locis; S. Maximo t. I, p. 284; Olympiodoro in c. I Ecclesiastae, Leontio De sectis, p. 392; Theophani Cerameo homil. 4, p. 22, etc. Aliam etymologiam probat Justinus martyr Dialogo cum Tryphone, pag. 354, ἄνθρωπος νικῶν δύναμιν. Τὸ γὰρ ἰσρα ἄνθρωπος νικῶν ἐστι, τὸ δὲ ἠλ δύναμις. Sane איש virum denotat, et שרר est dominari ac vincere, אל et potentiam sonat et angelum (unde Josephus lib. Antiq., pag. 33, exponit τὸν ἀντιστάντα ἀγγέλῳ θείῳ), et Deum: unde Moyse ipso auctore Genes. XXXII, 23, interpretantur alii « adversus Deum fortis, » ἄρχων πρὸς Θεόν· ita Symmachus. At Eucherius, « Princeps cum Deo. » Aquila: ἄρχων μετὰ Θεοῦ. Ita et Gallus confessor p. 18. Theodotion et LXX, ἐνισχύσας μετὰ Θεοῦ. Symmachi interpretationem probat Hieronymus in Quaest. Hebr. Idem in Isa. XLIV: « Proprie juxta Hebraeos et litterarum fidem Israel εὐθύτατος Θεοῦ, rectus Dei ישר אל dicitur. Vir autem videns Deum, non in elementis, sed in sono vocis est. » Confer Drusium II Animadvers., c. 27; Frontonem Ducaeum ad Paulini epist. 1, Cotelerium t. I PP. apostol., p. 376; Jo. Dallaeum De pseudepigraphis apostolicis, pag. 183; Combefisium ad S. Maximum t. I pag. 683. FABRIC.
Ἰσραήλ, etc. The name ישראל is explained by Philo, On Rewards and Punishments, p. 710, and elsewhere, as "seeing God," איש ראה אל. So too the Apostolic Constitutions, 7.37, 8.15; Eusebius, Preparation [for the Gospel] 11.6, p. 519, and many others. To this you will also refer those for whom Israel is "a man of sight and contemplation," as for Eusebius, Preparation, p. 310, or "a mind seeing God," as for St Optatus at the end of book 2; for Didymus in Jerome, and for Jerome himself in several places; for St Maximus, vol. 1, p. 284; for Olympiodorus on ch. 1 of Ecclesiastes; for Leontius, On the Sects, p. 392; for Theophanes Kerameus, homily 4, p. 22, etc. Justin Martyr, in the Dialogue with Trypho, p. 354, approves another etymology, "a man overcoming power": "For isra is a man overcoming, and el is power." Indeed איש denotes a man, and שרר is to rule and to overcome; אל means both power and angel (whence Josephus, Antiquities, p. 33, explains [the name as] "him who withstood a divine angel"), and God: whence, on the authority of Moses himself, Gen. 32:23, others interpret it "strong against God," ἄρχων πρὸς Θεόν; so Symmachus. But Eucherius: "Prince with God." Aquila: ἄρχων μετὰ Θεοῦ. So too Gall the Confessor, p. 18. Theodotion and the Seventy: ἐνισχύσας μετὰ Θεοῦ. Jerome approves the interpretation of Symmachus in the Hebrew Questions. The same, on Isaiah 44: "Properly, according to the Hebrews and the faith of the letters, Israel is called εὐθύτατος Θεοῦ, most upright of God, ישר אל. But 'a man seeing God' does not lie in the letters, but in the sound of the word." Compare Drusius, Animadversions 2, ch. 27; Fronton du Duc on the first letter of Paulinus; Cotelier, Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, p. 376; John Daillé, On the Pseudepigrapha of the Apostles, p. 183; Combefis on St Maximus, vol. 1, p. 683. FABRICIUS.
39 ‹per inhabitantem Spiritum ejus in vobis› · printed under cols 809–810 (scripture reference line across the page) Rom. VIII, 11.
Rom. 8:11.
40 ‹Filius hominis qui est in coelo› · printed under cols 809–810 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. III, 13.
John 3:13.
41 ‹tanquam Filium hominis› · printed under cols 809–810 (scripture reference line across the page) Dan. VII, 13.
Dan. 7:13.
42 ‹non reputabitur alius ad eum› · printed under cols 809–810 (scripture reference line across the page) Baruch. III, 36.
Bar. 3:36.
43 ‹et Israel dilecto suo› · printed under cols 809–810 (scripture reference line across the page) ibid. 36, 37.
Ibid. 36, 37.
44 ‹ipsum audite› · printed under cols 809–810 (scripture reference line across the page) Matth. XVII, 5; III, 17.
Matt. 17:5; 3:17.
45 ‹cum hominibus conversatus est› · printed under cols 809–810 (scripture reference line across the page) Baruch. III, 38.
Bar. 3:38.
46 ‹ipse enarravit› · printed under cols 811–812 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. I, 18.
John 1:18.
47 ‹quod audivit et vidit, testatur› · printed under cols 811–812 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. III, 11, 13.
John 3:11, 13.
48 ‹Deus benedictus in saecula› · printed under cols 811–812 (scripture reference line across the page) Rom. IX, 15.
Rom. 9:15.
49 ‹Omnia mihi tradita sunt a Patre› · printed under cols 811–812 (scripture reference line across the page) Matt. XI, 27.
Matt. 11:27.
50 ‹Deus omnipotens› · printed under cols 811–812 (scripture reference line across the page) Apoc. I, 8.
Rev. 1:8.
51 ‹mihi tradita sunt a Patre› · printed under cols 811–812 (scripture reference line across the page) Matth. XI, 27.
Matt. 11:27.
52 ‹ut sit Deus omnia in omnibus› · printed under cols 811–812 (scripture reference line across the page) I Cor. XV, 23-28.
1 Cor. 15:23–28.
53 ‹Deum meum et Deum vestrum› · printed under cols 811–812 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. XX, 17.
John 20:17.
(79) ‹μόνος ὁ παῖς› · printed under col 812
Ὁ παῖς. « Filius, » ut infra cap. 7 et 11. ID.
Ὁ παῖς. "The Son," as below, chs. 7 and 11. THE SAME.
(80) ‹καὶ λαμπρὸν› · printed under col 812
Λαμπρόν. Interpres legit λαμπρῶς. ID.
Λαμπρόν. The translator read λαμπρῶς. THE SAME.
(81) ‹Ἰωάννης εἶπεν› · printed under col 812
Ἰωάννης εἶπεν. Quod Joannes in Apocalypsi, cap. I, ait: « Qui est, et qui erat, et qui venturus est; » Paulus ait ad Rom. cap. IX, 5: « Deus in saecula. » Propter divinitatem enim Deus ante saecula, et propter carnem Deus in saecula: et propter divinitatem et carnem, qui est, et qui erat, et qui venturus est, Deus omnipotens. FRANCISCUS TURRIANUS.
Ἰωάννης εἶπεν. What John says in the Apocalypse, ch. 1, "Who is, and Who was, and Who is to come," Paul says in Romans, ch. 9:5, "God unto the ages." For by reason of the divinity He is God before the ages, and by reason of the flesh God unto the ages; and by reason of the divinity and the flesh, He Who is, and Who was, and Who is to come, God Almighty. FRANCIS TURRIANUS.
(82) ‹Τὸν αὐτὸν δὴ τρόπον ὁ παῖς› · printed under col 813
Ὁ παῖς. « Filius. » Sic et paulo post, ut supra cap. 5, et infra cap. 11. Per « puerum, » Filium intellige. FABRIC.
Ὁ παῖς. "The Son." So too a little later, as above in ch. 5 and below in ch. 11. By "the servant" understand the Son. FABRICIUS.
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Δυνάμει, διαθέσει. Confessus est se esse in Patre, potestate et affectione, multis in locis Evangelii. Joan. cap. X, 38: « Si mihi non vultis credere, operibus credite: ut cognoscatis et credatis quia Pater in me est, et ego in Patre. » Opera autem erant non solum miracula quae secundum divinitatem operabatur, sed virtutes quas secundum humanitatem, sicut de eo scriptum est, Hebr. cap. I, ex Psal. XLIV: « Dilexisti justitiam, et odisti iniquitatem; propterea unxit te Deus, Deus tuus, oleo laetitiae prae participibus tuis. » Item Joan. cap. XII: « Qui videt me, videt eum qui misit me. » Et paulo post: « Sed qui misit me Pater, ipse mihi mandatum dedit, quid dicam, et quid loquar; et scio quia mandatum ejus est vita aeterna. » Erat igitur in Patre potestate secundum operationem mandatorum ejus, id est, charitatis et omnis virtutis. Et cap. XIV: « Pater autem in me manens, ipse facit opera. Non creditis quia ego in Patre et Pater in me est? alioqui propter opera ipsa credite. » Quia semper hic homo operabatur justitiam, misericordiam, charitatem et caeteras virtutes immutabiliter secundum Dei voluntatem; hac etiam ratione, id est, potestate et consensione mentis et voluntatis, et non solum secundum substantiam, ipse et Pater unum erant, sicut volebat discipulos suos esse unum in Christo et in Patre, potestate et consensione voluntatis suae cum voluntate Patris et Filii. FR. TURRIANUS.
Δυνάμει, διαθέσει. He confessed that He is in the Father by power and affection in many places of the Gospel. John, ch. 10:38: "If you will not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me and I in the Father." And the works were not only the miracles which He wrought according to the divinity, but the virtues which [He wrought] according to the humanity, as it is written of Him, Heb. ch. 1, from Ps. 44: "Thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore God, Thy God, has anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows." Likewise John, ch. 12: "He who sees Me sees Him Who sent Me." And a little after: "But the Father Who sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak; and I know that His commandment is eternal life." He was therefore in the Father by power, according to the working of His commandments, that is, of charity and of every virtue. And ch. 14: "But the Father abiding in Me, He does the works. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? Otherwise believe for the sake of the works themselves." Because this Man always worked justice, mercy, charity and the other virtues unchangeably according to the will of God; for this reason also, that is, by power and by agreement of mind and will, and not only according to substance, He and the Father were one, just as He wished His disciples to be one in Christ and in the Father, by power and by the agreement of their will with the will of the Father and the Son. FR. TURRIANUS.
(84) ‹Εἷς γὰρ νοῦς Πατρὸς ὁ παῖς› · printed under col 814
Εἷς γὰρ νοῦς Πατρὸς ὁ παῖς. Id est, mens humana Christi non discrepat a mente divina Patris; et hac ratione mens humana Christi etsi non erat essentialiter mens divina, erat tamen potestate et affectione, sive dispositione consensionis, quia afficiebatur secundum voluntatem Dei voluntas et mens humana Christi; ita ut δυνάμει una essent, quae erant secundum substantiam duae mentes. ID.
Εἷς γὰρ νοῦς Πατρὸς ὁ παῖς. That is, the human mind of Christ does not differ from the divine mind of the Father; and for this reason the human mind of Christ, although it was not essentially the divine mind, yet was [so] by power and affection, or by the disposition of agreement, because the will and human mind of Christ were moved according to the will of God; so that those which according to substance were two minds were one δυνάμει. THE SAME.
54 ‹magis Deo quam hominibus› · printed under cols 813–814 (scripture reference line across the page) Act. V, 29; IV, 19.
Acts 5:29; 4:19.
55 ‹Ego et Pater unum sumus› · printed under cols 813–814 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. X, 30.
John 10:30.
56 ‹quod tu me misisti› · printed under cols 813–814 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. XVII, 22, 23.
John 17:22, 23.
57 ‹non cognitus› · printed under cols 813–814 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. I, 10.
John 1:10.
58 ‹et Pater in me est› · printed under cols 813–814 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. XIV, 8, 9.
John 14:8, 9.
59 ‹Filium « propositum› · printed under cols 815–816 (scripture reference line across the page) Rom. III, 25.
Rom. 3:25.
60 ‹missum esse a Patre› · printed under cols 815–816 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. V, 30; VI, 29; VIII, 16, 18, etc.
John 5:30; 6:29; 8:16, 18, etc.
61 ‹et ad Patrem ire› · printed under cols 815–816 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. XIII, 1; XIV, 12.
John 13:1; 14:12.
(85) ‹ὅσον δὲ κατὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν› · printed under col 815
Κατὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν. Interpres Turrianus hunc locum ita reddidit: « Quantum vero ad incarnationem pertinet, tertia est ostensio. » Sequi maluimus versionem cl. Marani De divinit. J. C., lib. IV, cap. 13, § 2, pag. 456.
Κατὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν. The translator Turrianus rendered this passage thus: "But as far as it pertains to the incarnation, the demonstration is threefold." We have preferred to follow the version of the celebrated Maran, On the Divinity of J[esus] C[hrist], book 4, ch. 13, § 2, p. 456.
(86) ‹πᾶσαι τοσαῦται αἱρέσεις› · printed under col 815
Τοσαῦται αἱρέσεις. Non Noeti tantum, sed et aliae XXXI, quas hactenus Hippolytus oppugnaverat. Ex his verbis clarissime apparet clausulam hanc esse libri adversus haereses. Apparet etiam Epiphanium Hippolyti exemplo opus suum adversus haereses expositione fidei obsignasse. FABRIC.
Τοσαῦται αἱρέσεις. Not Noetus' only, but also the other 31, which Hippolytus had attacked up to this point. From these words it appears most clearly that this is the closing section of the book against heresies. It appears also that Epiphanius, following Hippolytus' example, sealed his own work against heresies with an exposition of the faith. FABRICIUS.
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Οὐκ ἄλλοθεν ἀσκήσομεν ἢ ἐκ τῶν λογίων τοῦ Θεοῦ. Visus est sibi Fabricius in hoc loco « insigne de Scripturae sufficientia testimonium » animadvertere. Sed traditionem a Scriptura non dissociat Hippolytus, dum pietatem « non aliunde » repetit, « quam ex Scripturis divinis. » Non enim aliam defendit contra haereticos interpretationem Scripturae, quam quae Ecclesiae traditione nitebatur. Quapropter verbis modo citatis paulo post haec addit: Μὴ κατ' ἰδίαν προαίρεσιν, μηδὲ κατ' ἴδιον νοῦν, μηδὲ βιαζόμενοι τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ δεδομένα. « Non secundum propriam voluntatem, neque secundum proprium sensum, neque vim inferentes iis, quae a Deo data sunt. » Praeterea Noetum merito ejectum a presbyteris narrat cap. 1, quod Ecclesiae traditionem, quam ei objiciebant, contempserit. Dicebant enim Noeto presbyteri Ecclesiae: Ταῦτα λέγομεν ἃ ἐμάθομεν. « Haec dicimus, quae didicimus. » His adde, non dubium esse quin sanctus martyr in hoc adversus haereses opere, cujus materiam ex libris Irenaei mutuo sumpserat, traditionem et Ecclesiae auctoritatem Irenaei exemplo acerrime defenderit. MARAN. l. c. — Hinc item eliditur alterum ejusdem Fabricii hac ipsa de re commentum, quo iterum sibi finxit Hippolytum veluti « Scripturae sufficientiam » astruentem infra cap. 17, ubi sanctus Pater ad credendum κατὰ τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν ἀποστόλων, « secundum traditionem apostolorum, » fideles hortatur. Ibi namque ne quis putet traditionem quoque praeter Scripturam sanctum martyrem admisisse, sollicite Fabricius haec adnotat: « En παράδοσιν ἀποστολικὴν, sed quam mox ex scriptis apostolicis clarissime testatam facit Hippolytus. » Incassum laborat hic scholiastes. Siquidem sanctus Pater lib. De Antichristo, cap. 1, Pauli apostoli exemplum secutus, qui Timotheum ad « depositum custodiendum, atque ad ea fidelibus hominibus commendanda quae abs se per multas exhortationes audierat, » hortabatur; pari ratione Theophilum suum traditionem edocere comperitur.
Οὐκ ἄλλοθεν ἀσκήσομεν ἢ ἐκ τῶν λογίων τοῦ Θεοῦ. Fabricius thought he saw in this place "a remarkable testimony to the sufficiency of Scripture." But Hippolytus does not separate tradition from Scripture when he derives piety "from nowhere else" "than from the divine Scriptures." For he defends against the heretics no other interpretation of Scripture than that which rested on the tradition of the Church. Therefore, a little after the words just quoted, he adds this: Μὴ κατ' ἰδίαν προαίρεσιν, μηδὲ κατ' ἴδιον νοῦν, μηδὲ βιαζόμενοι τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ δεδομένα. "Not according to our own will, nor according to our own sense, nor doing violence to the things that were given by God." Moreover, he relates in ch. 1 that Noetus was deservedly cast out by the presbyters because he had despised the tradition of the Church which they set against him. For the presbyters of the Church said to Noetus: Ταῦτα λέγομεν ἃ ἐμάθομεν. "We say these things which we have learned." Add to this that there is no doubt that the holy martyr, in this work against heresies, whose material he had borrowed from the books of Irenaeus, defended tradition and the authority of the Church most vigorously after the example of Irenaeus. MARAN, loc. cit. — Hence likewise is overthrown another invention of the same Fabricius on this very matter, by which he again imagined Hippolytus to be, as it were, asserting "the sufficiency of Scripture" below in ch. 17, where the holy Father exhorts the faithful to believe κατὰ τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν ἀποστόλων, "according to the tradition of the apostles." For there, lest anyone think that the holy martyr admitted tradition also besides Scripture, Fabricius anxiously notes this: "Behold παράδοσιν ἀποστολικὴν, but one which Hippolytus soon shows to be most clearly attested from the apostolic writings." The commentator labours in vain here. For the holy Father, in the book On Antichrist, ch. 1, following the example of the apostle Paul, who exhorted Timothy "to guard the deposit, and to commend to faithful men the things which he had heard from him through many exhortations," is found in like manner to teach tradition to his Theophilus.
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Αὐτὸς δὲ μόνος ὢν, πολὺς ἦν. Hunc locum egregie illustrat Georgius Bullus Defens. fid. Nic., sect. III, cap. 8, § 2, pag. 219.
Αὐτὸς δὲ μόνος ὢν, πολὺς ἦν. George Bull illustrates this passage excellently, Defence of the Nicene Faith, sect. 3, ch. 8, § 2, p. 219.
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Ὅτε ἠθέλησεν, κ. τ. λ. Haec et sequentia mirum in modum explanat simul et strenue tuetur contra Jurium doctissimus Bossuetius Meldensis episcopus, Avertiss. VI, § 68, sur les lettres de M. Jurieu.
Ὅτε ἠθέλησεν, etc. These words and those that follow are explained wonderfully, and at the same time vigorously defended against Jurieu, by the most learned Bossuet, bishop of Meaux, Avertissement 6, § 68, on the letters of M. Jurieu.
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Ἐγέννα Λόγον. Ait Hippolytus Deum generasse Verbum, quod ab aeterno in se habuerat. Quomodo? « Ipsum, inquit, temporibus apud se definitis ostendit; ipsum creaturae ut Dominum deprompsit: ipsum denique sibimet soli prius notum, mundo visibilem fecit. » Itaque generatio qua de loquitur Hippolytus, non est Verbi productio; sed ipsius, ex aeterno Patri coexsistentis, ostensio, depromptio et manifestatio quae res creatas respexerit. Bullus et Bossuetius ll. cc. Neque aliter Maranus De divinit. J. C., lib. IV, cap. 13, § 3, pag. 458.
Ἐγέννα Λόγον. Hippolytus says that God begot the Word, which He had had in Himself from eternity. How? "He showed Him," he says, "at the times determined with Himself; He brought Him forth to the creation as Lord; lastly, He made Him, before known to Himself alone, visible to the world." Therefore the generation of which Hippolytus speaks is not a production of the Word, but a showing, bringing forth and manifestation of Him, coexisting with the Father from eternity, which had regard to created things. Bull and Bossuet, in the places cited. Nor does Maran say otherwise, On the Divinity of J[esus] C[hrist], book 4, ch. 13, § 3, p. 458.
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Φῶς ἐκ φωτός. Sic locuti ante Patres Nicaenos, praeter Hippolytum nostrum, sunt Justinus martyr, Tatianus et Athenagoras, ut notatum doctissimo Grabio ad Irenaeum lib. II, c. 23. His adde Methodium in homilia de Simeone et Anna, pag. 152: Σὺ εἶ φῶς ἀληθινὸν ἐκ φωτὸς ἀληθινοῦ, Θεὸς ἀληθινὸς ἐκ Θεοῦ ἀληθινοῦ. Athanasius postea dixit λύχνον ἐκ λύχνου, tom. I, pag. 881, edit. Lipsiens. FABRIC.
Φῶς ἐκ φωτός. So spoke, before the Nicene Fathers, besides our Hippolytus, Justin Martyr, Tatian and Athenagoras, as was noted by the most learned Grabe on Irenaeus, book 2, ch. 23. Add to these Methodius in the homily on Simeon and Anna, p. 152: Σὺ εἶ φῶς ἀληθινὸν ἐκ φωτὸς ἀληθινοῦ, Θεὸς ἀληθινὸς ἐκ Θεοῦ ἀληθινοῦ. Athanasius later said λύχνον ἐκ λύχνου, vol. 1, p. 881, Leipzig edition. FABRICIUS.
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Ἴδιον νοῦν. Filius, νοῦς, σοφία Patris, et infra c. 13, Voluntas. ID.
Ἴδιον νοῦν. The Son [is] the νοῦς, the σοφία of the Father, and below, ch. 13, [His] Will. THE SAME.
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Ἕτερον δὲ λέγων. Justino martyri quando Filius ἕτερόν τι a Patre esse dicitur, et Tertulliano quando « Filium et Patrem esse aliud ab alio » affirmat, eadem quae Hippolyto mens, ut Personarum distinctionem ostendant, non ut ὁμοούσιον inficientur. ID.
Ἕτερον δὲ λέγων. In Justin Martyr, when the Son is said to be ἕτερόν τι from the Father, and in Tertullian, when he affirms "that the Son and the Father are other the one from the other," the mind is the same as in Hippolytus: to show the distinction of the Persons, not to deny the ὁμοούσιον. THE SAME.
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Οὗτος δὲ νοῦς. Turrianus hunc locum sic reddiderat: « Hoc vero mens sive sensus, qui prodiens in mundum, ostensus est puer Dei. Omnia igitur per eum facta sunt; ipse solus ex Patre genitus. » Graecis pressius inhaerentem Maranum secuti sumus l. c. pag. 459, quem adeas velim.
Οὗτος δὲ νοῦς. Turrianus had rendered this passage thus: "And this [is] the mind or sense, which, coming forth into the world, was shown [as] the Son of God. All things therefore were made through Him; He alone [was] begotten of the Father." We have followed Maran, who keeps more closely to the Greek, loc. cit., p. 459, whom I would have you consult.
62 ‹Omnia igitur per ipsum› · printed under col 817 Joan. I, 3.
John 1:3.
63 ‹non interrogabant me› · printed under cols 819–820 (scripture reference line across the page) Isa. LXV, 1.
Isa. 65:1.
64 ‹factum est nihil› · printed under cols 819–820 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. I, 1-3.
John 1:1–3.
65 ‹sui eum non receperunt› · printed under cols 819–820 (scripture reference line across the page) ibid. 10, 11.
ibid. 1:10, 11.
66 ‹Verbo Domini coeli firmati sunt› · printed under cols 819–820 (scripture reference line across the page) Psal. XXXII, 6.
Ps. 32:6.
67 ‹et vidit Verbum ejus› · printed under cols 819–820 (scripture reference line across the page) Jer. XXIII, 18.
Jer. 23:18.
68 ‹Hic est Deus, omnium Dominus› · printed under cols 819–820 (scripture reference line across the page) Act. X, 36.
Acts 10:36.
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Ἠνάγκασεν τούτους φθέγξασθαι. « Coegit hos per Spiritum sanctum loqui. » Cogebat sanctos prophetas, quatenus volentes sequi voluntatem Dei, non poterant non loqui illa quae loquebantur. Sic Petrus in Actis apostol. c. III: « Non possumus, inquit, quae vidimus et audivimus non loqui. » Sic prophetae audiebant Spiritum Verbi Dei intus loquentem, et non poterant, sicut Petrus hic dixit, non loqui quae audiebant. FR. TURRIANUS.
Ἠνάγκασεν τούτους φθέγξασθαι. "He compelled them to speak through the Holy Spirit." He compelled the holy prophets in so far as, wishing to follow the will of God, they could not but speak the things which they spoke. So Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, ch. 3: "We cannot," he says, "not speak the things which we have seen and heard." So the prophets heard the Spirit of the Word of God speaking within, and could not, as Peter said here, not speak what they heard. FR. TURRIANUS.
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Οὐδὲ ἕν. Post οὐδὲ ἕν in verbis Joannis στιγμὴν, praeter Hippolytum, faciunt Irenaeus, Clemens Alex., Origenes, Theophilus Antiochenus et Eusebius pluribus locis: atque e Latinis Tertullianus ac Lactantius, Victorinus, Augustinus, et longe post Honorius Augustodunensis lib. I De imagine mundi, c. 2. Quoniam vero eadem interpunctio placuit etiam haereticis Valentino, Heracleoni, Theodoto, et Macedonianis, Eunomianisque; hinc ab Epiphanio t. II, pag. 80, et a Chrysostomo rejicitur. FABRIC.
Οὐδὲ ἕν. After οὐδὲ ἕν in the words of John, besides Hippolytus, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Theophilus of Antioch and Eusebius in several places make a στιγμή [a full stop]; and among the Latins Tertullian and Lactantius, Victorinus, Augustine, and long after, Honorius of Autun, book 1 On the Image of the World, ch. 2. But since the same punctuation pleased the heretics too, Valentinus, Heracleon, Theodotus, and the Macedonians and Eunomians, it is therefore rejected by Epiphanius, vol. 2, p. 80, and by Chrysostom. FABRICIUS.
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Τίς ἔστη ἐν ὑποστήματι. Victor in Catena, ἐν τῇ ὑποστάσει: pro quo Symmachus, ἐν τῇ ὁμιλίᾳ edidit. ID.
Τίς ἔστη ἐν ὑποστήματι. Victor in the Catena [has] ἐν τῇ ὑποστάσει; for which Symmachus gave ἐν τῇ ὁμιλίᾳ. THE SAME.
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Τὸ θέλημα… Χριστός. Sic Filium βούλησιν sive θέλημα Patris dixere multi veteres; quorum loca vide, si placet, apud Petavium lib. VI De SS. Trinitate, cap. 8, § 21, et lib. VII, cap. 12, § 12. FABRIC.
Τὸ θέλημα … Χριστός. So many of the ancients called the Son the βούλησις or θέλημα of the Father; see their passages, if you please, in Petau, book 6 On the Holy Trinity, ch. 8, § 21, and book 7, ch. 12, § 12. FABRICIUS.
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Δύο μὲν οὐκ ἐρῶ Θεοὺς… ἅγιον Πνεῦμα. Liquet ex hoc testimonio unum omnino Deum, tres Personas ab Hippolyto doceri. Paulo ante cap. 8 dixerat unum Deum esse secundum virtutem, sive secundum essentiam divinam, quae una prorsus est in tribus Personis; secundum autem oeconomiam tres Personas ostendi. Intelligit ergo, ut Tertullianus adversus Praxeam, cap. 3 oeconomiae nomine « numerum et dispositionem Trinitatis. » Hoc autem loco gratiam Spiritus sancti appellat « tertiam oeconomiam; » sed eodem sensu ac Tertullianus, qui Spiritum sanctum appellat « tertium gradum. » Nam gradus, forma, species, dispositio sive oeconomia, idem sonant apud Tertullianum. Quare si Spiritus sanctus dicitur tertius gradus, dici etiam potest tertia dispositio sive oeconomia. Minus accurate in Latina interpretatione incarnatio « oeconomiae » nomine designatur, in his verbis quae leguntur cap. 3: Τίς γὰρ οὐκ ἐρεῖ ἕνα Θεὸν εἶναι; ἀλλ' οὐ τὴν οἰκονομίαν ἀναιρήσει. « Quis enim non dicet unum esse Deum? Non tamen continuo oeconomiam, id est, incarnationem, negabit. » Non incarnationem, sed numerum et dispositionem Trinitatis considerat Hippolytus hoc in loco et in pluribus aliis. MARANUS, l. c. pag. 457.
Δύο μὲν οὐκ ἐρῶ Θεοὺς … ἅγιον Πνεῦμα. It is clear from this testimony that one God altogether, three Persons, is taught by Hippolytus. A little before, in ch. 8, he had said that God is one according to power, that is, according to the divine essence, which is wholly one in three Persons, but that according to the economy three Persons are shown. He therefore understands by the name of economy, as Tertullian does, Against Praxeas, ch. 3, "the number and disposition of the Trinity." And in this place he calls the grace of the Holy Spirit "the third economy," but in the same sense as Tertullian, who calls the Holy Spirit "the third degree." For degree, form, species, disposition or economy mean the same in Tertullian. Therefore, if the Holy Spirit is called the third degree, He can also be called the third disposition or economy. Less accurately, in the Latin translation, the incarnation is designated by the name of "economy" in these words which are read in ch. 3: Τίς γὰρ οὐκ ἐρεῖ ἕνα Θεὸν εἶναι; ἀλλ' οὐ τὴν οἰκονομίαν ἀναιρήσει. "For who will not say that God is one? Yet he will not straightway deny the economy, that is, the incarnation." Not the incarnation, but the number and disposition of the Trinity is what Hippolytus considers in this place and in many others. MARAN, loc. cit., p. 457.
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Κελεύων Πατὴρ… ὑπακούων Υἱός. Hoc « mandandi et praecipiendi » vocabulo de Patre, et « obediendi » de Filio, sine ulla offensione usi sunt non modo ante concilium Nicaenum S. Irenaeus, Hippolytus noster, Origenes et alii: sed et post illud concilium, adversarii et hostes Arianae haereseos acerrimi, Athanasius, Basilius, Marius Victorinus, Hilarius, Prosper, etc. Vide Petavium lib. I De Trinit., cap. 7, § 7, et Bullum in Defens. fid. Nic., pagg. 138, 164, 167, 170. FABRIC.
Κελεύων Πατὴρ … ὑπακούων Υἱός. This term of "commanding and ordering" for the Father, and of "obeying" for the Son, was used without any offence not only before the Council of Nicaea by St Irenaeus, our Hippolytus, Origen and others, but also after that council by the most vehement adversaries and enemies of the Arian heresy, Athanasius, Basil, Marius Victorinus, Hilary, Prosper, etc. See Petau, book 1 On the Trinity, ch. 7, § 7, and Bull in the Defence of the Nicene Faith, pp. 138, 164, 167, 170. FABRICIUS.
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Πατὴρ ἐπὶ πάντων. Cum Paulus ait de Deo Ephes. IV, 6: « Qui est super omnia, et per omnia, et in omnibus, » tres Personas designat, et unitatem Dei in illis: quia unius ejusdemque virtutis ac potentiae est, esse super omnia, et per omnia, et in omnibus; et secundum ordinem confessionis sanctae Trinitatis, primum tribuit Patri, secundum Filio, tertium Spiritui sancto; quia est tertia Persona secundum ordinem confessionis, ut antiqui theologi loquuntur, et nos loqui docuerunt. FR. TURRIANUS.
Πατὴρ ἐπὶ πάντων. When Paul says of God, Eph. 4:6, "Who is above all, and through all, and in all," he designates three Persons, and the unity of God in them: because it belongs to one and the same power and might to be above all, and through all, and in all; and according to the order of the confession of the Holy Trinity he assigns the first to the Father, the second to the Son, the third to the Holy Spirit; because He is the third Person according to the order of the confession, as the ancient theologians speak and have taught us to speak. FR. TURRIANUS.
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Ἄλλως τε ἕνα Θεὸν… Πνεῦμα ἐφανέρωσεν. Non poterat accuratius exponi dogma Christianorum. Non solum enim numerum Personarum nihil de Dei singularitate detrahere contendit; sed etiam ipsam Dei singularitatem sine hoc Personarum numero nec consistere, nec coli posse. MARANUS, l. c. pag. 458.
Ἄλλως τε ἕνα Θεὸν … Πνεῦμα ἐφανέρωσεν. The doctrine of the Christians could not have been set out more accurately. For he maintains not only that the number of the Persons takes nothing away from the singleness of God, but also that the very singleness of God can neither subsist nor be worshipped without this number of Persons. MARAN, loc. cit., p. 458.
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Ἠρνήσαντο. Hoc dicit propter Petrum, quem legimus in Evangelio Christum negasse. FR. TUR.
Ἠρνήσαντο. He says this on account of Peter, who, we read in the Gospel, denied Christ. FR. TUR[RIANUS].
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Ξένον μοι φέρεις, Λόγον λέγων Υἱόν. Hunc locum puto a Turriano minus bene sic redditum: « Novum verbum mihi affers, cum Filium vocas; » atque Hippolytum potius in hanc sententiam scripsisse: « Novum mihi affers, cum Filium Verbum vocas, » sive Verbi appellas nomine. FABRIC… Neque aliter Wesselingius Probabil. cap. 26, pag. 252 cujus proinde versionem expressimus.
Ξένον μοι φέρεις, Λόγον λέγων Υἱόν. I think this passage was rendered less well by Turrianus thus: "You bring me a new word when you call [Him] Son"; and that Hippolytus rather wrote in this sense: "You bring me something new when you call the Son the Word," or give [Him] the name of the Word. FABRICIUS … Nor does Wesseling say otherwise, Probabilia, ch. 26, p. 252, whose version we have therefore expressed.
69 ‹et Deus erat Verbum› · printed under cols 821–822 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. I, 1.
John 1:1.
70 ‹Spiritus sanctus « in omnibus› · printed under cols 821–822 (scripture reference line across the page) Ephes. IV, 6.
Eph. 4:6.
71 ‹et Filii, et Spiritus sancti› · printed under cols 821–822 (scripture reference line across the page) Matth. XXVIII, 19.
Matt. 28:19.
72 ‹nomen ejus, Verbum Dei› · printed under cols 823–824 (scripture reference line across the page) Apoc. XIX, 11-13.
Rev. 19:11–13.
73 ‹gloriam ejus detraxerunt› · printed under cols 823–824 (scripture reference line across the page) Mich. II, 7, 8.
Mic. 2:7, 8.
74 ‹sed secundum Spiritum› · printed under cols 823–824 (scripture reference line across the page) Rom. VIII, 3, 4.
Rom. 8:3, 4.
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Ἀλλ' ἄλλως ἀλληγορεῖ. « Sed aliter interpretatur. » Statimque ista in versione subduntur: « Imo, non aliter per allegoriam interpretatur; » adeoque legerit interpres: μενοῦνγε οὐκ ἄλλως ἀλληγορεῖ; quae quidem sive exscriptori sive typothetae ob repetitum ἀλληγορεῖ exciderint: ea siquidem contextus postulare videtur. Ad hunc autem locum haec adnotat Turrianus: « Verbum Dei non allegorice, sed proprie Filium Dei significat. Hoc ipsum beatus Cyrillus lib. VII Thesauri, cap. 1, contra Eunomium docuit; et per Scripturas probavit esse Verbum proprium nomen Filii: id est, hanc vocem, Verbum, proprie et decenter, et non per abusionem aut allegoriam, Filium Dei significare. »
Ἀλλ' ἄλλως ἀλληγορεῖ. "But he interprets otherwise." And immediately these words are added in the version: "Nay rather, he does not interpret otherwise by allegory"; and so the translator would have read μενοῦνγε οὐκ ἄλλως ἀλληγορεῖ; which words the copyist or the typesetter may have dropped because of the repeated ἀλληγορεῖ; for the context seems to require them. And on this place Turrianus notes this: "'Word of God' signifies the Son of God not allegorically but properly. This very thing blessed Cyril taught in book 7 of the Thesaurus, ch. 1, against Eunomius; and he proved through the Scriptures that 'Word' is the proper name of the Son: that is, that this term, 'Word', signifies the Son of God properly and fittingly, and not by misuse or allegory."
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Ἐν συμβόλῳ. Hoc est, in figura, qua utitur etiam propheta Isaias LXIII, 1. FABRIC.
Ἐν συμβόλῳ. That is, in a figure, which the prophet Isaiah also uses, 63:1. FABRICIUS.
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Τὴν δόξαν. Sic habebant LXX in exemplari Hippolyti, δόξαν, non δοράν, ut nunc in nostris. Convenit haec lectio cum Isa. LIII, 2: « Non est species ei, neque decor. » FR. TURR.
Τὴν δόξαν. So the Septuagint had in Hippolytus' copy, δόξαν, not δοράν, as now in ours. This reading agrees with Isa. 53:2: "He has no form nor comeliness." FR. TURR[IANUS].
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Ἁμαρτίας. Omittit verba, καὶ περὶ ἁμαρτίας, quae et in uno Covelli codice absunt: sed ab aliis codicibus, quemadmodum et versionibus antiquis Epistolae ad Romanos, agnoscuntur. FABRIC.
Ἁμαρτίας. He omits the words καὶ περὶ ἁμαρτίας, which are also absent from one manuscript of Covel's; but they are recognized by other manuscripts, as also by the ancient versions of the Epistle to the Romans. FABRICIUS.
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Τὸ κοινὸν ὄνομα τῆς… φιλοστοργίας. « Commune nomen amoris. » Filius Dei, filius hominis nominatus est et fuit, ut nos filii Dei nominemur et simus: quod fuit summae erga nos charitatis. « Videte, » inquit Joannes in Epist. I, cap. I, 1, « qualem charitatem dedit nobis Pater, ut filii Dei nominemur et simus! » Nisi enim sic Pater dilexisset mundum, ut Filium suum factum filium hominis pro nobis in mortem tradidisset, adoptionem filiorum Dei quam accepimus, non accepissemus. FR. TURRIAN.
Τὸ κοινὸν ὄνομα τῆς … φιλοστοργίας. "The common name of love." The Son of God was named, and was, son of man, that we might be named, and be, sons of God: which was [a mark] of the highest charity towards us. "See," says John in Epistle 1, ch. 1, 1, "what charity the Father has given us, that we should be named and be sons of God!" For unless the Father had so loved the world as to give up His Son, made son of man, to death for us, we should not have received the adoption of sons of God which we have received. FR. TURRIAN[US].
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Οὔτε γὰρ… τέλειος ἦν Υἱός. « Nec enim perfectus Filius erat. » Nihil deerat Filio Dei ad perfectionem generationis aeternae ex Patre, antequam fieret filius hominis: sed ad perfectum mysterium oeconomiae deerat Christo Filio Dei, ut fieret filius hominis, et sic esset perfectus Christus. Cum carne itaque factus est perfectus Christus, et perfectus sive completus Filius; Filius scilicet Dei, et filius hominis: quia hypostasis Christi, ut antiqui theologi et ecclesiastici Patres tradunt, est quid completum ex duabus naturis, divina scilicet et humana unita Verbo. Et beatus Cyrillus lib. II contra Nestorium: « Corpus, inquit, ex muliere natum, unitum Verbo secundum hypostasin, Christum unum et Filium et Dominum perfecit, sive complevit eumdem Deum et hominem; » quod perinde est ut diceret, Filium Dei et eumdem filium hominis. Convenimus cum his quae Leontius Byzantius lib. I contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos scripsit, duplicem esse perfectionem in Christo: unam quae simpliciter dicitur, alteram quae in habitudine cernitur, secundum magnum Gregorium. « Perfectum enim, inquit, est Verbum et plenum, et praebens perfectionem; perfecta autem est et anima hominis, quantum ad definitionem essentiae suae: sed tamen neque Verbum est perfectus Christus non unita humanitate, quamvis perfectus Deus sit; sicut nec anima perfectus homo est sine corpore, etsi perfectam substantiam habet. » Hactenus Leontius. FR. TURR.
Οὔτε γὰρ … τέλειος ἦν Υἱός. "For neither was He perfect Son." Nothing was lacking to the Son of God for the perfection of the eternal generation from the Father before He became son of man; but for the perfect mystery of the economy it was lacking to Christ the Son of God that He should become son of man, and so be perfect Christ. With the flesh, therefore, He was made perfect Christ, and perfect or complete Son; Son, that is, of God and son of man: because the hypostasis of Christ, as the ancient theologians and the Fathers of the Church teach, is something complete from two natures, the divine, namely, and the human united to the Word. And blessed Cyril, book 2 against Nestorius: "The body," he says, "born of a woman, united to the Word according to hypostasis, made one Christ, both Son and Lord, or completed the same [as] God and man"; which is as if he said, the Son of God and the same [as] son of man. We agree with what Leontius of Byzantium wrote in book 1 against the Nestorians and Eutychians, that there is a twofold perfection in Christ: one which is so called simply, the other which is seen in relation, according to the great Gregory. "For the Word," he says, "is perfect and full, and bestows perfection; and the soul of man also is perfect as regards the definition of its essence; but yet neither is the Word perfect Christ without the humanity united [to Him], although He is perfect God; just as the soul is not a perfect man without the body, although it has a perfect substance." Thus far Leontius. FR. TURR[IANUS].
(12) ‹εἷς Υἱὸς τέλειος Θεοῦ ἐφανερώθη› · printed under col 825
Οὕτως οὖν εἷς Υἱὸς τέλειος Θεοῦ ἐφανερώθη. Hic locus quo plurimum se efferunt Unitarii, astruitur atque illustratur superius in Prolegomenis, ubi de hoc Hippolyti opusculo sermo recurrit.
Οὕτως οὖν εἷς Υἱὸς τέλειος Θεοῦ ἐφανερώθη. This passage, on which the Unitarians pride themselves most, is established and explained above in the Prolegomena, where the discussion returns to this little work of Hippolytus.
(12*) ‹Τί δέ ἐστιν τὸ, ἐξῆλθον› · printed under cols 825–826 Si interpreti fides, legendum: τί δὲ τὸ ἐξελθόν…, quae quidem lectio ex sequentibus confirmatur; mox enim legitur: τί δὲ τὸ… γεννηθέν. EDIT. PATROL.
If the translator is to be trusted, we should read τί δὲ τὸ ἐξελθόν …, a reading which is indeed confirmed by what follows; for soon after we read: τί δὲ τὸ … γεννηθέν. EDITOR OF THE PATROLOGY.
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Ἀλλ' ἢ Πνεῦμα. Divina Christi natura, uti est, ita passim etiam dicitur « Spiritus » antiquis Ecclesiae doctoribus διὰ τὸ ἀσχημάτιστον, ut loquitur Proclus CPolitanus. Vide Hugonem Grotium ad Marc. II, 8. FABRIC.
Ἀλλ' ἢ Πνεῦμα. The divine nature of Christ, as it is [spirit], so also is commonly called "Spirit" by the ancient doctors of the Church, διὰ τὸ ἀσχημάτιστον [because it is without form], as Proclus of Constantinople puts it. See Hugo Grotius on Mark 2:8. FABRICIUS.
(14) ‹διηγήσασθαι πλὴν δύο› · printed under col 826
Πλὴν δύο. Matthaeo nimirum, et Lucae in Evangel. FR. TURRIANUS.
Πλὴν δύο. Namely, Matthew and Luke, in the Gospel. FR. TURRIANUS.
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Κατὰ τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν ἀποστόλων. Vide in hunc locum adnotata supra ad cap. 9.
Κατὰ τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν ἀποστόλων. See what was noted on this place above, at ch. 9.
75 ‹ex Patre exivi, et venio› · printed under cols 825–826 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. XVI, 28.
John 16:28.
76 ‹spiritus est› · printed under cols 825–826 (scripture reference line across the page) Joan. III, 6.
John 3:6.
77 ‹luciferum genui te› · printed under cols 825–826 (scripture reference line across the page) Psal. CIX, 3.
Ps. 109:3.
78 ‹quis credidit auditui nostro› · printed under cols 825–826 (scripture reference line across the page) Isa. LIII, 1.
Isa. 53:1.
79 ‹potestatem habeo iterum sumendi eam› · printed under col 827 (scripture reference line) Joan. X, 18.
John 10:18.
80 ‹Ego a me ipso pono eam› · printed under col 827 (scripture reference line) Ibid.
Ibid.
81 ‹sicut dixit Isaias propheta› · printed under col 827 (scripture reference line) Isa. LIII, 4.
Isa. 53:4.
(16) ‹ὅτε πεινᾷ καὶ κοπιᾷ› · printed under col 827
Ὅτε πεινᾷ καὶ κοπιᾷ, κ. τ. λ. Quae hic sequuntur, ad verbum fere conveniunt cum iis quae ex S. Hippolyti Memoria haeresium laudat S. Gelasius De duabus naturis in Christo, tom. VIII Bibl. Patrum, edit. Lugd. pag. 704. FABRIC.
Ὅτε πεινᾷ καὶ κοπιᾷ, etc. What follows here agrees almost word for word with the passage which St Gelasius quotes from St Hippolytus' Memorial of Heresies, On the Two Natures in Christ, vol. 8 of the Library of the Fathers, Lyons edition, p. 704. FABRICIUS.
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Ἱερατευόμενος ὡς Θεός. « Tanquam Deus honoratus. » Quia cum esset pontifex anni illius, prophetavit Caiphas Joan. XI, 51, 52, « quod Jesus moriturus erat pro gente, et non tantum pro gente, sed ut filios Dei qui erant dispersi congregaret in unum; » quod quidem facere non poterat, nisi Deus esset. FR. TURRIAN.
Ἱερατευόμενος ὡς Θεός. "Honoured as God." Because, being high priest that year, Caiaphas prophesied, John 11:51, 52, "that Jesus was to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad"; which indeed He could not do unless He were God. FR. TURRIAN[US].
(18) ‹Οὗτος στεφανοῦται κατὰ διαβόλου› · printed under col 829
Στεφανοῦται κατὰ διαβόλου. Matth. XXVII, 29. Victores in certaminibus coronabantur: de quo multa Carolus Paschalius lib. VI De coronis. FABRIC.
Στεφανοῦται κατὰ διαβόλου. Matt. 27:29. Victors in contests were crowned; on which Charles Paschal [says] much, book 6, On Crowns. FABRICIUS.
82 ‹ipsum audite› · printed under col 829 Matth. XVII, 5.
Matt. 17:5.