# Treatise on the Mysteries - Author: [Hilary of Poitiers](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/hilary-of-poitiers/) - Latin title: *Tractatus mysteriorum* - Date: ca. 360–366 (disputed) - Source: A. Feder, ed., S. Hilarii episcopi Pictaviensis opera, pars 4, CSEL 65 (Vienna: Tempsky, 1916) (Latin text: Vienna CSEL, digitized by Open Greek and Latin (csel-dev, University of Leipzig), CC BY-SA 4.0) - Translation: Claude, from the original text, unless a passage says otherwise; each passage below gives the translator - Editions and translations: J.-P. Brisson, ed., Hilaire de Poitiers, Traité des mystères, SC 19 bis (Paris: Cerf, 1967) - Work page: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/ - Passages: 169 ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.1.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-1-1 - Source: CSEL 65:3 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The fragmentary opening contrasts superficial resemblance with a full typological comparison. ### Latin text Multiplex ∗∗∗∗∗ ∗∗∗∗∗ * ∗∗∗∗∗ ipsas illas intellegamus in gestis. illis autem satis est et aliquam inanis similitudinis speciem coaptasse, cum comparatio et implenda penitus de consequentibus sit et ex solido de praesentibus expetenda. ### English translation (Claude) Manifold … let us understand them in the deeds themselves. For them, however, it is enough to have fitted on some appearance of an empty likeness, whereas the comparison must be filled out completely from what follows and sought firmly from what is present. ### Translation notes - The Treatise on the Mysteries survives in a single damaged manuscript (Arezzo); the beginning is lost. The asterisks in the edition mark lost text, shown here as "…". ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.1.1 (CSEL 65:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-1-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.1.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-1-2 - Source: CSEL 65:3 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: All of Scripture foretells Christ's coming in words, deeds, and examples. ### Latin text omne autem opus, quod sacris uoluminibus continetur, aduentum domini nostri Iesu Christi, quo missus a patre ex uirgine per spiritum homo natus est, et dictis nuntiat et factis exprimit et confirmat exemplis. ### English translation (Claude) Every work contained in the sacred volumes announces by words, expresses by deeds, and confirms by examples the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which, sent by the Father, he was born a man from the Virgin through the Spirit. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.1.2 (CSEL 65:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-1-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.1.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-1-3 - Source: CSEL 65:3 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Christ prefigures the church in the patriarchs from Adam to Jacob. ### Latin text namque hic per omne constituti huius saeculi tempus ueris atque absolutis praefigurationibus in patriarchis ecclesiam aut generat aut abluit aut sanctificat aut eligit aut discernit aut redimit: somno Adae, Noe diluuio, benedictione Melchisedech, Abrahae iustificatione, ortu Ysahac, Iacob seruitute. ### English translation (Claude) For throughout the whole time of this established age, by true and complete prefigurations in the patriarchs, he either begets, or washes, or sanctifies, or chooses, or separates, or redeems the church: by the sleep of Adam, the flood of Noah, the blessing of Melchizedek, the justification of Abraham, the birth of Isaac, the servitude of Jacob. ### Scripture references - Gen 2:21: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 7:17: allusion, low confidence - Gen 14:19: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 15:6: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 21:2: allusion, low confidence - Gen 29:20: allusion, low confidence ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.1.3 (CSEL 65:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-1-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.1.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-1-4 - Source: CSEL 65:3–4 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Hilary states his plan: to show Christ and the church prefigured in Scripture from Adam onward. ### Latin text per omne denique tempus uniuersa prophetia, sacramenti molitio, cognitioni adsumendae ab eo carnis indulta est. et quia hoc libello uisum est ostendere omnem in singulis quibusque et uiris et temporibus et rebus aduentus sui et praedicationis et passionis et resurrectionis et nostrae congregationis tamquam in imaginem in speculo praeferri, non transcursim memorabo aliqua. sed suis quibusque temporibus uniuersa tractabo ab Adam, ex quo humani generis scientia permittitur, inchoaturus, ut, quod in domino consummatum est, iam ab initio mundi in plurimis praefiguratum esse noscatur. DE ADAM. ### English translation (Claude) In short, throughout all time the whole of prophecy, the working of the mystery, was granted for the knowledge of the flesh he was to assume. And since it has seemed good in this little book to show that in each and every man, time, and thing the image of his coming, preaching, passion, and resurrection, and of our gathering together, is held up as in a mirror, I will not mention some things in passing; but I will treat everything in its own time, beginning from Adam, from whom knowledge of the human race is granted, so that what was completed in the Lord may be known to have been prefigured in many from the very beginning of the world. On Adam. ### Translation notes - "Mystery" renders sacramentum, as in the title (On the Mysteries). The last words are the edition's chapter heading. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.1.4 (CSEL 65:3–4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-1-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.2.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-2-1 - Source: CSEL 65:4 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The name Adam prefigures Christ's birth. ### Latin text Adam ipso nomine natiuitatem domini praeformat; nam secundum linguam Hebraicam Adam, quod Graece gepyrra, id ### English translation (Claude) Adam by his very name prefigures the Lord's birth; for according to the Hebrew language "Adam", which in Greek is ge pyrra, that is, ### Translation notes - "Gepyrra" renders the Greek ge pyrra, "red earth"; the sentence continues in 1.2.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.2.1 (CSEL 65:4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-2-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.2.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-2-2 - Source: CSEL 65:4 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Adam's name ("red earth") points to Christ's flesh, transformed into spiritual glory. ### Latin text Latine terra flammea est et scriptura humani corporis carnem terram solita est nuncupare. quae per spiritum in domino nata de uirgine, in nouam et alienam a se speciem mutata, conformis effecta est gloriae spiritali [est] secundum apostolum: secundus homo de caelo et Adam caelestis, quia Adam terrestris imago est futuri. tuto ergo auctore tanto etiam Adae nomen non sine aliqua futuri meditatione suscipimus. ### English translation (Claude) in Latin, is "fiery earth"; and Scripture is accustomed to call the flesh of the human body earth. This flesh, born in the Lord from the Virgin through the Spirit, changed into a new form foreign to itself, was made conformable to spiritual glory, according to the Apostle: "The second man is from heaven," and the heavenly Adam, because the earthly Adam is the image of the one to come. With so great an authority, then, we safely take even the name of Adam not without some meditation on the future. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 15:47: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 15:49: allusion, medium confidence - Rom 5:14: allusion, high confidence - Phil 3:21: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The editor deletes "est" after "spiritali"; it is left out. - Quotations and allusions: 1 Cor 15:47–49; Rom 5:14; Phil 3:21. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.2.2 (CSEL 65:4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-2-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.3.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-1 - Source: CSEL 65:4 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Eve's creation from sleeping Adam and Adam's prophecy are introduced. ### Latin text Sequitur, quod obsopito Adam ex latere eius atque osse Eua gignitur. quo euigilato prophetia quoque talis consequitur: hoc nunc os de ossibus meis et caro de carne mea haec uocabitur mulier, quia de uiro suo sumpta est, et erunt duo in carne una. hic nihil mihi laboris est; apostolus enim, cum huius ipsius prophetiae meminisset, ait: ### English translation (Claude) It follows that, when Adam was put to sleep, Eve was brought forth from his side and bone. When he awoke, there followed such a prophecy as this: "This now is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken from her husband; and the two shall be in one flesh." Here I have no labor, for the Apostle, when he recalled this very prophecy, said: ### Scripture references - Gen 2:21: allusion, high confidence - Gen 2:23: quotation, high confidence - Gen 2:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 2:21–24 (Hilary's Latin). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.3.1 (CSEL 65:4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.3.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-2 - Source: CSEL 65:4–5 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Paul calls Adam and Eve's union a mystery of Christ and the church; Jesus, asked about divorce, shows that he himself spoke Gen 2:24. ### Latin text hoc mysterium magnum est, ego autem dico in Christo et in ecclesia. sed Adae os tantum detractum legimus; et quomodo dicitur caro de carne mea? referri quidem ad praesentium gestorum fidem res ista poterit, ut, quia os, quod ex latere eius in muliebre corpus per eum, qui omnia potest, deum carne uestitum sit, quia os ex carne detractum est et rursum carne indutum in corpus extiterit, ut os ex osse, ita etiam caro sit ex carne. sed dominus in euangeliis, cum repudio dando a Iudaeis temptatus esset, per se potius quam per Adam hoc ita dictum fuisse demonstrat dicens: non legistis, quia, qui fecit ab initio, masculum et feminam fecit ut dixit: propter hoc dimittet homo patrem et matrem et erunt duo in carne una? hoc enim post id, quod dictum est caro de carne mea. sequitur. ### English translation (Claude) "This is a great mystery, but I speak of Christ and of the church." But we read that only a bone was taken from Adam; how then is it said, "flesh of my flesh"? This could indeed be referred to faith in the deeds of the time: that because the bone which from his side, through him who can do all things, … was clothed with flesh in a woman's body, since the bone taken from the flesh and clothed again with flesh came forth into a body, so, as bone from bone, it is also flesh from flesh. But the Lord in the Gospels, when he was tested by the Jews about giving a bill of divorce, shows that this was said thus by himself rather than by Adam, saying: "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said: For this reason a man shall leave father and mother, and the two shall be in one flesh?" For this follows after what was said, "flesh of my flesh". ### Scripture references - Eph 5:32: quotation, high confidence - Gen 2:23: allusion, high confidence - Matt 19:3: allusion, high confidence - Matt 19:4: quotation, high confidence - Matt 19:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The clause about the bone clothed with flesh is corrupt in the manuscript ("deum carne uestitum sit"); it is translated by sense with "…". - Quotations: Eph 5:32; Matt 19:4–5 (Gen 2:24). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.3.2 (CSEL 65:4–5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.3.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-3 - Source: CSEL 65:5 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Christ spoke through Adam, so Adam's words both report a real event and prefigure Christ. ### Latin text ergo rem, quae in Adam perficiebatur, consecuta est prophetia. cum enim haec dominus, qui fecit masculum et feminam. dixerit, quod ex osse eius os et ex carne ipsius caro est locutus ipse per Adam id, quod totum in ipso Adam erat factum, nec detraxit fidem rebus et praeformari ex se id, quod in altero gerebatur, ostendit. ### English translation (Claude) So the prophecy followed upon the thing that was being accomplished in Adam. For since the Lord, who made male and female, said these things, he himself spoke through Adam that bone was from his bone and flesh from his flesh, which was wholly done in Adam himself; and he did not take away the truth of the events, and showed that what was done in another was prefigured from himself. ### Scripture references - Gen 2:23: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.3.3 (CSEL 65:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.3.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-4 - Source: CSEL 65:5 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The church, born from Christ's side and nourished by his flesh in the sacrament, is foreshadowed in Eve. ### Latin text cum enim uerbum factum sit caro et ecclesia membrum sit Christi, quae ex latere eius et per aquam nata et uiuificata per sanguinem sit, rursum caro, in qua uerbum ante saecula manens, quod est filius dei. natum sit, per sacramentum maneat in nobis, absolute docuit in Adam atque Eua suam et ecclesiae speciem contineri, quam post mortis suae somnum sanctificatam esse carnis suae communione significet. loquitur quoque idem per apostolum: ### English translation (Claude) For since the Word became flesh, and the church is a member of Christ, born from his side through water and given life through blood; and again, since the flesh in which the Word, abiding before the ages, who is the Son of God, was born, abides in us through the sacrament: he taught completely that in Adam and Eve were contained the figure of himself and of the church, which he signifies was sanctified, after the sleep of his death, by communion in his flesh. The same also speaks through the Apostle: ### Scripture references - John 1:14: allusion, high confidence - Eph 5:30: allusion, medium confidence - John 19:34: allusion, high confidence - John 6:56: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - "Through the sacrament" refers to the Eucharist; the water and blood from Christ's side: John 19:34. - Allusions: John 1:14; 1 Cor 12:27; Eph 5:30; John 6:56. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.3.4 (CSEL 65:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.3.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-5 - Source: CSEL 65:5–6 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: 1 Timothy 2:14–15 is applied to the church, gathered from sinners and Gentiles. ### Latin text quoniam Adam non peccauit, sed mulier peccans transgressione fuit. saluabitur autem propter filiorum procreationem, si tamen in fide manserint. ecclesia igitur ex publicanis et peccatoribus et gentibus est: ### English translation (Claude) "Adam did not sin, but the woman, sinning, was in transgression. But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if they continue in faith." The church, then, is from tax collectors, sinners, and Gentiles: ### Scripture references - 1 Tim 2:14: quotation, high confidence - 1 Tim 2:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: 1 Tim 2:14–15 in Hilary's Latin ("if they continue"). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.3.5 (CSEL 65:5–6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-5). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.3.6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-6 - Source: CSEL 65:6 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Hilary reads 1 Tim 2:15 of the church saved through her faithful children, rejecting salvation by childbearing. ### Latin text solo suo secundo et caelesti Adam non peccante ipsa peccatrix per generationem filiorum in fide manentium erit salua. ceterum intellegi ita non conuenit, quod mulier non sit a peccato suo redempta per dominum, et superflue baptizabitur, si magis merito partus sit liberanda. sed ne per ipsam quidem filiorum generationem erit tuta, cum salua non sit, nisi, qui geniti sunt, fideles perstiterint. et nescio, qua aequum sit alieno aut peccato reum effici aut merito innocentem., ### English translation (Claude) since her second and heavenly Adam alone does not sin, she herself, a sinner, will be saved through the begetting of children who continue in faith. Otherwise it is not fitting to understand it so, as if the woman were not redeemed from her sin by the Lord, and would be baptized needlessly if she must rather be freed by the merit of childbearing. But not even by the very begetting of children will she be safe, since she is not saved unless those who are born persevere as believers. And I do not know how it would be just to be made guilty by another's sin or innocent by another's merit. ### Scripture references - 1 Tim 2:15: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 15:47: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The literal reading Hilary rejects would make baptism superfluous for women. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.3.6 (CSEL 65:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-3-6). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.4.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-4-1 - Source: CSEL 65:6 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Paul's words on Adam and Eve are chiefly spiritual, about Christ and the church. ### Latin text Sed tuto spiritalibus spiritalia comparantes ita sentiemus maxime apostolum gesta magni in Adam atque Eua mysterii referre se iam ad Christum atque ecclesiam praedicantem. et haec quidem ita nos conuenit ab eo spiritaliter dicta existimare, ut non ### English translation (Claude) But, safely comparing spiritual things with spiritual, we shall think thus: that the Apostle chiefly refers the deeds of the great mystery in Adam and Eve, preaching them now of Christ and the church. And these things we should judge to have been spoken by him spiritually in such a way that the discourse ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 2:13: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Comparing spiritual with spiritual: 1 Cor 2:13. The sentence continues in 1.4.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.4.1 (CSEL 65:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-4-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.4.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-4-2 - Source: CSEL 65:6 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Paul's teaching also applies literally: as a believing spouse sanctifies an unbeliever, so believing children help their parents. ### Latin text minus ad praesentem doctrinam et ad eorum, quos monebat, institutionem sermo referendus sit. namque multiplicem misericordiam dei in ea, quae ad Corinthios prima est, in sanctificandis per coniugia fidelium infidelibus praedicans hic quoque per procreationem credentium tamen filiorum istiusmodi sanctificationem docuit largiendam, ut, quemadmodum unius fidelis societas prodesset per coniugium infideli, ita fidelium procreatio infidelibus subueniret. ### English translation (Claude) must be referred no less to the teaching of the moment and to the instruction of those whom he was admonishing. For, proclaiming the manifold mercy of God in the first letter to the Corinthians, in the sanctifying of unbelievers through marriage to believers, here too he taught that a sanctification of this kind is to be granted through the procreation of children who believe; so that, as the partnership of one believer through marriage benefits the unbeliever, so the procreation of believers would come to the help of unbelievers. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 7:14: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: 1 Cor 7:14. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.4.2 (CSEL 65:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-4-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.5.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-1 - Source: CSEL 65:6 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Eve's formation contains a hidden mystery of Christ and the church. ### Latin text Contuendum etiam illud est in Adae somno atque Euae corporatione occulti in Christo et in ecclesia mysterii sacramentum: ### English translation (Claude) We must also observe, in Adam's sleep and in the forming of Eve's body, the sacrament of the mystery hidden in Christ and in the church: ### Scripture references - Gen 2:21: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.5.1 (CSEL 65:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.5.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-2 - Source: CSEL 65:6 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Eve's creation from bone and flesh foreshadows bodily resurrection. ### Latin text in eo enim corporeae resurrectionis fides et ratio continetur. namque in creatione mulieris non iam limus adprehenditur neque terra in formam describitur neque dei inspiratione in animam uiuentem materies inanimis commouetur, sed ossi caro adcrescit et carni per- ### English translation (Claude) for in it is contained the faith and the reasoning of bodily resurrection. For in the creation of the woman clay is no longer taken up, nor is earth shaped into a form, nor is inanimate matter moved into a living soul by God's breath; but flesh grows on bone, and to the flesh ### Scripture references - Gen 2:7: allusion, high confidence - Gen 2:22: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.5.3. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.5.2 (CSEL 65:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.5.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-3 - Source: CSEL 65:6–7 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones shows the same order of resurrection. ### Latin text fectio corporis datur et perfectionem corporis uigor spiritalis insequitur. hunc resurrectionis ordinem per Ezechielem deus locutus est docens in his, quae gerenda erant, uirtutis suae potestatem. illic enim omnia concurrunt: caro adest, spiritus aduolat, deo ex operibus suis nullum deperit, cui ad efficientiam corporis sui ea, quae non erant, adfuerunt. ### English translation (Claude) the completion of the body is given, and spiritual vigor follows the completion of the body. This order of resurrection God spoke through Ezekiel, teaching in the things that were to be done the might of his power. For there all things come together: flesh is present, the spirit flies in; nothing of his works is lost to God, to whom, for completing his body, things that were not were present. ### Scripture references - Ezek 37:6: allusion, high confidence - Ezek 37:8: allusion, high confidence - Ezek 37:10: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Ezek 37:1–10. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.5.3 (CSEL 65:6–7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.5.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-4 - Source: CSEL 65:7 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The mystery hidden for ages is the Gentiles' inclusion in Christ's body and the glorifying of our bodies. ### Latin text est autem sacramentum hoc secundum apostolum absconsum a saeculis in deo: esse gentes coheredes et concorporales et conparticipes pollicitationis eius in Christo, qui potens sit secundum eundem apostolum conforme efficere corpus humilitatis nostrae corpori gloriae suae. ### English translation (Claude) And this mystery, according to the Apostle, was hidden from the ages in God: that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ, who, according to the same Apostle, is able to make the body of our lowliness conformed to the body of his glory. ### Scripture references - Eph 3:9: allusion, high confidence - Eph 3:6: quotation, high confidence - Phil 3:21: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotations: Eph 3:6, 9; Phil 3:21. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.5.4 (CSEL 65:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.5.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-5 - Source: CSEL 65:7 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The church, like Eve, is formed from the risen Christ, in whom the resurrection of all flesh is already accomplished. ### Latin text agnoscit ergo post somnum passionis suae caelesti Adam resurgente ecclesia suum os, suam carnem non iam ex limo creatam neque ex inspiratione uegetatam, sed adcrescentem ossi et in corpus ex corpore spiritu aduolante perfectam. qui enim in Christo sunt, secundum Christum resurgent, in quo iam uniuersae carnis consummata est resurrectio, ipso illo in carne nostra cum dei, in qua ante saecula genitus a patre est, uirtute nascente. ### English translation (Claude) So the church, after the sleep of his passion, when the heavenly Adam rises again, recognizes her own bone, her own flesh, no longer created from clay nor quickened by breathing, but growing on bone and completed into a body from a body as the Spirit flies in. For those who are in Christ will rise according to Christ, in whom the resurrection of all flesh has already been accomplished, since he himself was born in our flesh with the power of God in which he was begotten by the Father before the ages. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 15:22: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Cor 15:45: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: 1 Cor 15:22–23, 45. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.5.5 (CSEL 65:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-5). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.5.6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-6 - Source: CSEL 65:7 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: What is prepared for the church at the end was already completed in figure in Adam and Eve. ### Latin text et quia Iudaeus et Graecus, barbarus et Scyta, seruus et liber, masculus et femina, omnes in Christo unum sunt, cum caro recognita ex carne sit et ecclesia Christi corpus sit et mysterium, quod in Adam atque Eua est, in Christum et in ecclesiam praedicetur, perfectum iam sub Adam atque Eua in exordio saeculi est, quicquid in consummationem temporum per Christum ecclesiae praeparatur. DE CAIN ET ABEL. ### English translation (Claude) And since Jew and Greek, barbarian and Scythian, slave and free, male and female are all one in Christ; since flesh is recognized as from flesh, and the church is the body of Christ, and the mystery that is in Adam and Eve is preached of Christ and the church: whatever is prepared for the church through Christ at the consummation of the times was already completed under Adam and Eve at the beginning of the world. On Cain and Abel. ### Scripture references - Col 3:11: allusion, high confidence - Gal 3:28: allusion, high confidence - Eph 5:32: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Col 3:11; Gal 3:28; Eph 5:32. The last words are the edition's chapter heading. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.5.6 (CSEL 65:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-5-6). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.6.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-1 - Source: CSEL 65:7–8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Cain and Abel prefigure two peoples. ### Latin text Sequuntur primam Christi et ecclesiae praefigurationem gesta Cayn et Abel, duum in se populorum praeformantium diuer- ### English translation (Claude) After the first prefiguration of Christ and the church follow the deeds of Cain and Abel, prefiguring in themselves the difference ### Scripture references - Gen 4:1: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.6.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.6.1 (CSEL 65:7–8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.6.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-2 - Source: CSEL 65:8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: God looks on Abel's offering and not Cain's, showing that his regard marks what pleases him. ### Latin text sitatem ipsisque et nominibus et officiis mores et studia utriusque signantium. Cayn enim erat terram colens et Abel oues pascens. ex fructibus autem suis unusquisque mysterii deo munus exhibuit: sed inspiciuntur munera Abel, Cayn autem non uidentur. uerum et dies indiscretus sacrificii et locus est et deo omnia contuenti quomodo aut hoc in conspectu est aut illum extra conspectum? sed per hanc significantiam docetur dei conspectum placitarum rerum ### English translation (Claude) of two peoples, and by their very names and occupations marking the character and pursuits of each. For Cain was a tiller of the ground and Abel a keeper of sheep. And each, from his own fruits, presented to God a gift of the mystery; but Abel's gifts are looked upon, and Cain's are not seen. Yet the day of the sacrifice and the place are not distinguished; and to God, who beholds all things, how is the one in his sight and the other outside his sight? But by this signification it is taught that God's sight is the sign of things pleasing to him ### Scripture references - Gen 4:2: allusion, high confidence - Gen 4:4: allusion, high confidence - Gen 4:5: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Gen 4:2–5. The sentence continues in 1.6.3. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.6.2 (CSEL 65:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.6.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-3 - Source: CSEL 65:8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: God rejected Cain's sacrifice because he foresaw the murder. ### Latin text esse indicium et, cum omnia subiecta ei sint, contuitionem tamen eius in ea adire, quae digna sunt. uerum nihil ante de moribus Cayn erat dictum, ut eius hostia displiceret. sed in his, quae consecuta sunt, dei prouidentia intellegitur sacrificia eius non recipientis, qui grassaturus esset in fratrem. futuri enim apud deum cognitio fides facti est; ### English translation (Claude) and that, though all things are subject to him, his regard yet goes to those that are worthy. Yet nothing had been said before about Cain's character that would make his sacrifice displease. But in what followed, God's foresight is understood in not receiving the sacrifices of one who was going to attack his brother. For with God the knowledge of the future is as certain as a deed done; ### Scripture references - Gen 4:8: allusion, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.6.3 (CSEL 65:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.6.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-4 - Source: CSEL 65:8 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Tilling the ground signifies works of the flesh; Abel's firstlings signify the inward sacrifices of conscience. ### Latin text nam, qui peremturus erat, tamquam iam peremisset, dei conspectione non dignus est. in cultura uero terrae significatio operum carnalium continetur et omnis fructus carnis in uitiis est, quae abhorrente deo conspectum a se eius apellunt. non respicitur ergo ad hostiam, quae ex operationibus terrae est. et solae in adipibus placent ouium primitiae, interni uidelicet fructus et ipsius conscientiae nostrae sacrificia delectant, quaeque in primitiis ouium placentia conspectum in se diuinae uoluntatis inuitant. ### English translation (Claude) for he who was going to kill was not worthy of God's regard, as though he had already killed. In tilling the ground is contained the meaning of works of the flesh, and every fruit of the flesh lies in vices, which drive God's regard away from them, since God abhors them. The sacrifice, then, that comes from the works of the earth is not looked upon. And only the firstlings of the sheep in their fat are pleasing: that is, inward fruits and the sacrifices of our very conscience delight him, and whatever is pleasing in the firstlings of sheep invites to itself the regard of the divine will. ### Scripture references - Gen 4:4: allusion, high confidence - Gal 5:19: allusion, low confidence ### Translation notes - "Apellunt" (drive away) as printed. Allusion: Gen 4:4; Gal 5:19. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.6.4 (CSEL 65:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.6.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-5 - Source: CSEL 65:8–9 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Abel's offering of firstlings prefigures the church's sacrifice of Christ's body. ### Latin text cum enim primitiae Christus sit, primogenitus creaturae, primogenitus ex mortuis, princeps etiam sacerdotum, ut sit in omnibus ipse primatum tenens, ipse etiam ouis et secundum corpoream natiuitatem unus ex ouibus, sacrificium Abel iam sub sacramento ecclesiae probabile est, quae deinceps esset ex primitiis ouium sancti corporis hostiam praebitura. ### English translation (Claude) For since Christ is the firstfruits, the firstborn of creation, the firstborn from the dead, and also the chief of priests, so that he may hold the first place in all things; and since he is also a sheep, and according to bodily birth one of the sheep: Abel's sacrifice is acceptable already under the mystery of the church, which would thereafter offer the sacrifice of the holy body from the firstlings of the sheep. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 15:20: allusion, high confidence - Col 1:15: allusion, high confidence - Col 1:18: allusion, high confidence - Heb 4:14: allusion, medium confidence - Isa 53:7: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - "The sacrifice of the holy body" refers to the Eucharist. - Allusions: 1 Cor 15:20; Col 1:15, 18; Heb 4:14; Isa 53:7. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.6.5 (CSEL 65:8–9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-5). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.6.6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-6 - Source: CSEL 65:9 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Cain, envious, kills Abel, denies his crime, and is cursed and kept for sevenfold vengeance. ### Latin text inuidet itaque placito displicens et contra dei edictum. ut quiesceret, admonentis probabilis ab improbabili interficitur. reus ad confessionis paenitentiam interrogatur, sed ad incrementum criminis negat; desperans resurrectionem sed se morte existimat, sed gemens et tremens ad iudicium ultionis septemplicis reseruatur et ab omni terra sanguinem fratris excipiente maledicitur. ### English translation (Claude) So the one who displeases envies the one who pleases, and, against the command of God, who warned him to be still, the acceptable one is killed by the unacceptable. The guilty one is questioned with a view to the repentance of confession, but he denies, to the increase of his crime; despairing of resurrection, … groaning and trembling, he is kept for the judgment of sevenfold vengeance, and is cursed from the whole earth, which received his brother's blood. ### Scripture references - Gen 4:7: allusion, high confidence - Gen 4:8: allusion, high confidence - Gen 4:9: allusion, high confidence - Gen 4:11: allusion, high confidence - Gen 4:12: allusion, high confidence - Gen 4:15: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Sed se morte existimat" is corrupt in the manuscript; translated with "…". - Allusions: Gen 4:7–15 (Hilary's Latin "groaning and trembling" follows the Greek). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.6.6 (CSEL 65:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-6). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.6.7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-7 - Source: CSEL 65:9 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Cain's name means laughter, Abel's weeping. ### Latin text interpretatio autem nominis Cayn risus est, Abel autem fletus. ### English translation (Claude) The interpretation of the name Cain is "laughter", and of Abel "weeping". ### Translation notes - Hilary's etymologies; the usual ancient interpretations of the Hebrew names are different. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.6.7 (CSEL 65:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-6-7). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.7.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-7-1 - Source: CSEL 65:9 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Cain and Abel prefigure the Jewish people's hostility to the Christians. ### Latin text Numquid non ea, quae superiora sunt, consummantur in populis? oblatio iunioris est placita, Iudaeus inuidet Christiano, ad caedem eius frustra a prophetis monitus exarsit. ### English translation (Claude) Are not the things above being fulfilled in the peoples? The offering of the younger is pleasing; the Jew envies the Christian, and, warned in vain by the prophets, has burned to kill him. ### Translation notes - Hilary's typology of the Jewish people as Cain is translated as written; it reflects his polemical reading. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.7.1 (CSEL 65:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-7-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.7.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-7-2 - Source: CSEL 65:9 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Hilary applies Cain's punishment to the Jewish people after the fall of Jerusalem and links the names to Christ's woes and beatitudes. ### Latin text ueniam ne per ipsam quidem confessionem paenitentiae consectatur, sed audax deo commissum scelus abnegat. desperans resurrectionis gloriam subiectusque capta Hierusalem dominantium potestati gemens et tremens ultionis iudicio reseruatur, per ipsas interpretationes nominum discretus a sanctis domino dicente: uae his, qui ridunt, quia flebunt! et: beati lugentes, quia consolabuntur! ### English translation (Claude) He does not seek pardon even through the confession of repentance, but boldly denies the crime committed against God. Despairing of the glory of resurrection, and, after the capture of Jerusalem, subject to the power of those who rule, groaning and trembling he is kept for the judgment of vengeance, separated from the saints by the very interpretations of the names, as the Lord says: "Woe to those who laugh, for they will weep!" and: "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted!" ### Scripture references - Luke 6:25: quotation, high confidence - Matt 5:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Translated as written; a polemical typology of Hilary's time. - Quotations: Luke 6:25; Matt 5:4. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.7.2 (CSEL 65:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-7-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.7.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-7-3 - Source: CSEL 65:9 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Jesus links Abel's blood to the guilt of his own generation. ### Latin text atque ut omnia dominus doceret praefigurationi utrisque populi conuenire, dixit: ideo ecce ego mitto ad uos prophetas et sapientes et scribas et ex illis occidetis in synagogis et persequemini eos de ciuitate in ciuitatem ut ueniat super uos omnis sanguis iustus, qui effusus est super terram a sanguine Abel iusti usque ad sanguinem Zachariae filii Barrachihel, quem occidistis inter templum et altare. ### English translation (Claude) And so that the Lord might teach that everything fits the prefiguration of the two peoples, he said: "Therefore behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them you will kill in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar." ### Scripture references - Matt 23:34: quotation, high confidence - Matt 23:35: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Matt 23:34–35. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.7.3 (CSEL 65:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-7-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.7.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-7-4 - Source: CSEL 65:9–10 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The blood of Abel and of Christ's body is required of those who cried, "His blood be on us." ### Latin text ∗∗∗∗∗Abel itaque sanguis ab eo exquiritur, qui secundum Cayn praefigurationem iustos est persecutus et maledictus a terra est, quae aperiens os suum sanguinem fratris excepit. in corpore enim Christi, in quo et apostoli et ecclesia est, omnium sanguinem uniuersa eorum caro et posteritas suscepit proclamantibus ipsis: sanguis eius super nos et super filios nostros. ### English translation (Claude) … Abel's blood, then, is required of him who, after the prefiguration of Cain, persecuted the righteous and is cursed from the earth, which opened its mouth and received his brother's blood. For in the body of Christ, in which are both the apostles and the church, their whole flesh and posterity took upon themselves the blood of all, as they themselves cried out: "His blood be on us and on our children." ### Scripture references - Gen 4:11: allusion, high confidence - Matt 27:25: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The opening of the section is lost in the manuscript. - Translated as written; Hilary's reading of Matt 27:25 against the Jewish people is polemical. - Allusions: Gen 4:10–11; Matt 27:25. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.7.4 (CSEL 65:9–10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-7-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.8.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-8-1 - Source: CSEL 65:10 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The fulfilment of the Cain type is introduced. ### Latin text Rerum itaque in Cayn gestarum praefigurationem effectorum ### English translation (Claude) So the prefiguration of the things done in Cain ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.8.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.8.1 (CSEL 65:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-8-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.8.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-8-2 - Source: CSEL 65:10 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: God's word to Cain about dividing rightly also points to the future. ### Latin text fides est consecuta nec secerni possunt a praeformationis exemplo, in quos eiusdem reatus est ultio consecuta. uerum etiam in eo, quod dictum est: nonne si recte offeras, recte autem non diuidas, peccasti? praeter rei, praesentis effectum futuri quoque species continetur; ### English translation (Claude) was followed by faith in their fulfilment; nor can those upon whom the vengeance of the same guilt has followed be separated from the example of the prefiguration. And in what was said, "If you offer rightly but do not divide rightly, have you not sinned?" there is contained, besides the effect of the present matter, the image of the future too; ### Scripture references - Gen 4:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 4:7 in the Greek/Latin form (the Hebrew differs). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.8.2 (CSEL 65:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-8-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.8.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-8-3 - Source: CSEL 65:10 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Israel sins if it does not share the law, a shadow of things to come, with the Gentiles. ### Latin text deo enim non placent nisi communia et participata et amicata. promissa ergo dei expectans populus per legem, etiamsi cum praeceptorum obseruantia recte deo offerat, tamen, nisi hanc ipsam dei legem, quae umbra est futurorum, cum gentium congregatione communicet, peccauit. ### English translation (Claude) for nothing pleases God except what is shared, imparted, and made friendly. The people, then, awaiting God's promises through the law, even if it offers rightly to God by keeping the commandments, yet sins unless it shares this very law of God, which is a shadow of things to come, with the gathering of the Gentiles. ### Scripture references - Heb 10:1: allusion, high confidence - Col 2:17: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Heb 10:1; Col 2:17. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.8.3 (CSEL 65:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-8-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.8.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-8-4 - Source: CSEL 65:10 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Like Cain, those under the law are guilty unless they share in the Gentiles' accepted offering. ### Latin text recte ergo non diuidens crimine detenebitur. Cayn namque inuidens fratri non participauerat sibi conspectae a deo hostiae gratiam et peccator, quia non recte diuideret, constitutus est. quo exemplo probatas deo fidelium ex gentibus hostias nisi, qui sub lege sunt, diuidant, etiam si lege recte utantur, in crimine sunt. DE LAMECH. ### English translation (Claude) He who does not divide rightly, then, will be held in guilt. For Cain, envying his brother, had not shared in the grace of the offering that God had regarded, and was made a sinner because he did not divide rightly. By this example, unless those who are under the law share the offerings of the faithful from the Gentiles that are approved by God, they are in guilt, even if they use the law rightly. On Lamech. ### Scripture references - Gen 4:7: allusion, high confidence - 1 Tim 1:8: allusion, low confidence ### Translation notes - The last words are the edition's chapter heading. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.8.4 (CSEL 65:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-8-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.9.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-9-1 - Source: CSEL 65:10–11 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Lamech, husband of two wives, boasts of killing a young man. ### Latin text Sed ne in Lamech quidem extra futuri speciem res geruntur. hic refertur fuisse duarum uxorum maritus, quarum nominibus etiam tertiae mulieris, ab eius tamen coniugio liberae, nomen adiectum est atque etiam idem Lamech scribitur ista dixisse: dixit autem Lamech mulieribus suis Adae et Sellae: audite uocem meam, mulieres Lamech, intuemini uerba mea, quoniam uirum occidi in uulnere mihi et iuuenem in liuore meo, quoniam septies uindicatum est de Cayn, de Lamech autem septuagies septies. ### English translation (Claude) But not even in Lamech are things done outside the image of the future. He is said to have been the husband of two wives, to whose names the name of a third woman also is added, though she was free of marriage to him; and the same Lamech is written to have said these things: "And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah: Hear my voice, wives of Lamech, attend to my words: for I have killed a man to my wounding, and a young man to my bruising; for sevenfold vengeance has been taken for Cain, but for Lamech seventy times seven." ### Scripture references - Gen 4:19: allusion, high confidence - Gen 4:22: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 4:23: quotation, high confidence - Gen 4:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The third woman is Naamah, Lamech's daughter (Gen 4:22). Quotation: Gen 4:23–24 (Greek/Latin form, "seventy times seven"). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.9.1 (CSEL 65:10–11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-9-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.9.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-9-2 - Source: CSEL 65:11 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Hilary notes the puzzles in Lamech's words. ### Latin text et quis hic est illo iusto Abel iustior, cuius tanto nunc maiore poena mors uindicanda sit? nomen perempti tacetur, uulnus non ad peremptum, sed ad peremptorem refertur et liuor caedentis potius docetur esse, non caesi. ### English translation (Claude) And who is this, more righteous than the righteous Abel, whose death must now be avenged with so much greater a penalty? The name of the one slain is kept silent; the wound is referred not to the slain but to the slayer, and the bruise is shown to belong to the one striking rather than to the one struck. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.9.2 (CSEL 65:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-9-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.9.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-9-3 - Source: CSEL 65:11 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Lamech, though impious, prophesies a vengeance greater than Cain's. ### Latin text interfectio iuuenis uxoribus nuntiatur; cum trium mulierum nomina contineantur, tantum ad duas sermo est. prophetat impius et ultra Cayn poenam ultionem commissae a se caedis accumulat. ### English translation (Claude) The killing of the young man is announced to the wives; though the names of three women are contained, the speech is only to two. The impious man prophesies, and heaps up vengeance for the murder he committed beyond the penalty of Cain. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.9.3 (CSEL 65:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-9-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.10.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-10-1 - Source: CSEL 65:11 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Lamech's story must be read for its figure of the future. ### Latin text Haec non transcursim audienda sunt, sed in his futurorum figuratio scrutanda est. ### English translation (Claude) These things must not be heard in passing, but the figure of things to come must be searched out in them. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.10.1 (CSEL 65:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-10-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.10.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-10-2 - Source: CSEL 65:11 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Lamech prefigures the high priest who, with Jews and Gentiles, had Christ crucified. ### Latin text Lamech principis sacerdotum habet speciem, qui consentientibus sibi Iudaeis et gentibus cruci dominum subfigit; nam ex atrio principis sacerdotum ad Herodem idem dominus ductus est plebe credentium a sceleris communione secreta et idcirco duabus tamquam sociis sibi et uxoribus caedem iuuenis gloriatur. ### English translation (Claude) Lamech has the figure of the chief of the priests, who, with Jews and Gentiles agreeing with him, fastened the Lord to the cross; for from the court of the chief of the priests the same Lord was led to Herod, the people of believers being separated from the fellowship of the crime; and therefore he boasts to two, as it were his partners and wives, of the killing of the young man. ### Scripture references - Luke 23:7: allusion, medium confidence - Acts 4:27: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The two wives stand for Jews and Gentiles; the third woman, free of the marriage, for the believers. Allusions: Luke 23:7; Acts 4:27. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.10.2 (CSEL 65:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-10-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.10.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-10-3 - Source: CSEL 65:11 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Like Lamech, Caiaphas prophesied unknowingly about the death of Christ. ### Latin text et quia nullus de eo sensus est poenae, in se et uulnera et liuorem iniuriae et caedis excepit. instinctu etiam prophetico est locutus; nam et tum princeps sacerdotum nesciens prophetauit, sicut in euangeliis scriptum est: unus autem ex his Cayphas nomine, cum esset summus sacerdos anni illius, dixit eis: uos nescitis nihil nec percipitis, quia expedit nobis, ut unus homo moriatur pro plebe et non uniuersa gens pereat. hoc autem a se non dixit, sed cum esset summus sacerdos anni illius, prophetauit. concurrunt ergo omnia sibi personis, rebus, effectu et gestorum fides speciem complectitur futurorum. ### English translation (Claude) And since he had no sense of punishment for him, he took upon himself the wounds and the bruise of the injury and the killing. He also spoke by prophetic instinct; for then too the chief of the priests prophesied without knowing it, as is written in the Gospels: "But one of them named Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing, nor do you perceive that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish. He did not say this of himself, but being high priest that year he prophesied." Everything, then, agrees together in persons, events, and effect, and the truth of the deeds embraces the figure of things to come. ### Scripture references - John 11:49: quotation, high confidence - John 11:50: quotation, high confidence - John 11:51: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: John 11:49–51. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.10.3 (CSEL 65:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-10-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.10.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-10-4 - Source: CSEL 65:11–12 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Christ's "seventy times seven" answers Lamech's vengeance with forgiveness for those who believe. ### Latin text numerus quoque in Cayn et Lamech poenae non sine aliqua significatione perscribitur. cum enim secundum prophetas septemplex poena in iniustos sit constituta, Petrus, super quem ecclesiam tamquam uiuo fundamento (dominus) aedificabat, an peccanti in se secundum legem septies sit remissurus, interrogat; cui dominus, ut septuagies septies indulgeret, respondit per hanc significantiam docens ipsam illis, qui credituri essent,; passionis suae poenam remittendam, cum, in quantum uindicta eius multiplicata esset. in tantum rursum uenia abundaret. ### English translation (Claude) The number in the penalty of Cain and of Lamech is also written not without some meaning. For since, according to the prophets, a sevenfold penalty was set for the unjust, Peter, on whom the Lord was building the church as on a living foundation, asks whether he should forgive one who sins against him, according to the law, seven times; and the Lord answered him that he should forgive seventy times seven, teaching by this meaning that the penalty of his passion was to be remitted to those who would believe, so that, as far as vengeance for it had been multiplied, so far again pardon would abound. ### Scripture references - Matt 16:18: allusion, high confidence - Matt 18:21: allusion, high confidence - Matt 18:22: allusion, high confidence - Rom 5:20: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - "Dominus" in round brackets is the editor's supplement; translated. - Allusions: Matt 16:18; Matt 18:21–22; Rom 5:20. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.10.4 (CSEL 65:11–12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-10-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.11.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-11-1 - Source: CSEL 65:12 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Seth is born in place of Abel. ### Latin text Seth deinde nascitur et in perempti Abel locum semen in eo aliud excitatur Eua ita dicente: excitauit mihi deus semen aliud pro Abel, quem occidit Cain. ### English translation (Claude) Then Seth is born, and in the place of the slain Abel another seed is raised up in him, as Eve says: "God has raised up for me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain killed." ### Scripture references - Gen 4:25: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 4:25. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.11.1 (CSEL 65:12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-11-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.11.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-11-2 - Source: CSEL 65:12 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Seth, "foundation of faith", prefigures the church founded on Peter. ### Latin text interpretatio autem Seth nominis est fundamentum fidei, et cum Abel iustus et cum in locum iusti Seth genitus sit, reseruata semper a deo sanctorum generatio et per successiones renouata intellegitur fidelibus in Petro fundamentis fidem ecclesia sustentatura. DE NOE. ### English translation (Claude) The interpretation of the name Seth is "foundation of faith"; and since Abel was righteous, and since Seth was born in the place of the righteous, the generation of the saints is understood to be always preserved by God and renewed by successions, the church being to sustain the faith on the foundations in Peter for the faithful. On Noah. ### Scripture references - Matt 16:18: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The last clause is awkward in the manuscript ("fundamentis fidem"); translated by sense. The last words are the edition's chapter heading. - Allusion: Matt 16:18. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.11.2 (CSEL 65:12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-11-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.12.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-12-1 - Source: CSEL 65:12 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The story of Noah is full of figures of the future. ### Latin text Quae erga Noe gesta sunt, negari non possunt plena esse et uirtutibus dei (et) exemplis futurorum. nam in quantumlibet aut hebes ingenium sit aut auersa a ueri intellegentia uoluntas. at tamen illic dicta gestaque sunt. quae etiam inuitis sensum ueritatis eliciant. atque, ut in singulis rerum effectibus uirtus prophetica intellegatur, quid cui rei sit comparandum. ### English translation (Claude) It cannot be denied that what was done concerning Noah is full both of the powers of God and of examples of things to come. For however dull a mind may be, or however turned away from the understanding of truth a will may be, yet things were said and done there which draw out the sense of the truth even from the unwilling. And so that the prophetic power may be understood in each effect of the events, [let us see] what is to be compared with what. ### Translation notes - "Et" in round brackets is the editor's supplement; translated. The last sentence lacks its main verb in the manuscript; "let us see" is supplied in brackets. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.12.1 (CSEL 65:12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-12-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.12.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-12-2 - Source: CSEL 65:12–13 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Noah prefigures Christ's humanity, as Lamech's prophecy at his birth shows. ### Latin text breuiter edendum est. Noe enim, quem ex uirgine dominus adsumpsit, hominem praefigurat atque, ut id ipsum ex scripturae ipsius uerbis cognitum fiat, cuiusmodi de eo prophetia Lamech patris eius fuerit, noscendum est: et Lamech genuit filium et uocauit nomen eius Noe dicens: hic requiescere faciet nos ab operibus nostris et a tristitiis manuum nostrarum et a terra, cui maledixit dominus deus. ### English translation (Claude) must be briefly set forth. For Noah prefigures the man whom the Lord assumed from the Virgin; and so that this may be known from the very words of Scripture, we must learn what kind of prophecy about him his father Lamech made: "And Lamech begot a son and called his name Noah, saying: This one will make us rest from our works and from the sorrows of our hands and from the earth, which the Lord God cursed." ### Scripture references - Gen 5:29: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 5:28–29 (Greek/Latin form). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.12.2 (CSEL 65:12–13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-12-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.12.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-12-3 - Source: CSEL 65:13 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Lamech's prophecy of rest cannot be fulfilled in Noah himself. ### Latin text sed haec, ut arbitror, in eum Noe, de quo sermo est, ad perfectum conuenire non possunt. quam enim requiem humano generi adtulit uel a quibus fecit operibus desisti? quin etiam sub eo uniuersitas hominum deletur, diluuium infunditur; terra conspectui eius uiri redditur, in grauioribus etiam postea uirtutibus uiuitur. et ubi requies per Noe erit reddita? in eo autem, qui facturus sit requiem, potestas est designata faciendi. ### English translation (Claude) But these things, I think, cannot fit perfectly the Noah of whom we are speaking. For what rest did he bring the human race, or from what works did he make it cease? On the contrary, under him the whole of mankind is destroyed, the flood is poured out; the earth is given back to the sight of that man, and afterwards life goes on in still graver vices. And where will rest have been given through Noah? But in him who is to make rest, the power of making it is designated. ### Translation notes - "Uirtutibus" (virtues) is printed where the sense requires "vices"; translated by sense (uncertain). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.12.3 (CSEL 65:13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-12-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.12.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-12-4 - Source: CSEL 65:13 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Scripture records Noah's own deeds, from the ark to the curse and blessing of his sons. ### Latin text porro autem nec naturae hominis conuenit nec scriptum legitur nec re ipsa intellegitur Noe horum aliquid fecisse, sed plera. quae Noe erant propria, scriptura planissime edidit: cum deo probabilis est. cum iustus inuenitur, cum arcam facere iubetur. cum in eam ingreditur. cum coruum emittit, cum columbam et recipit et remittit, cum egreditur ex arca, cum uineam plantat, cum ex fructu eius ebrius nudatur, cum a Cham inridetur, cum a Sem et Iafeth contegitur. cum in unum maledictionem et in duos benedictionis ordinem modumque constituit. haec, ab eo ut sunt gesta, intellegenda sunt. ### English translation (Claude) Moreover, it neither fits human nature, nor is it read as written, nor is it understood from the facts, that Noah did any of these things; but most of the things that were proper to Noah Scripture has set forth most plainly: when he is approved by God, when he is found righteous, when he is ordered to make the ark, when he enters it, when he sends out the raven, when he both receives and sends back the dove, when he goes out of the ark, when he plants a vineyard, when, drunk from its fruit, he is uncovered, when he is mocked by Ham, when he is covered by Shem and Japheth, when he sets out the order and manner of a curse on one and a blessing on two. These things are to be understood as they were done by him. ### Scripture references - Gen 6:9: allusion, high confidence - Gen 6:14: allusion, high confidence - Gen 8:7: allusion, high confidence - Gen 8:8: allusion, high confidence - Gen 9:20: allusion, high confidence - Gen 9:22: allusion, high confidence - Gen 9:23: allusion, high confidence - Gen 9:25: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Gen 6:8–9:27. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.12.4 (CSEL 65:13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-12-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.13.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-1 - Source: CSEL 65:13 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Noah's deeds contain a great mystery of the future. ### Latin text Sed magnum in his futuri sacramentum continetur ac de singulis suo loco tractabimus, tum cum oporteat sibi inuicem res personasque conferre. ### English translation (Claude) But a great mystery of the future is contained in these things, and we will treat each in its place, when we must compare events and persons with each other. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.13.1 (CSEL 65:13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.13.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-2 - Source: CSEL 65:13 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Christ, who gives rest to the weary, fulfils Lamech's prophecy about Noah. ### Latin text erit ergo huic Noe dominus noster, qui uerbum caro factum est, comparatus, qui et ait in euangeliis: uenite ad me omnes, qui laboratis et onerati estis, et ego uos reficiam. tollite iugum meum super uos et discite, quia mitis sum et humilis corde, et inuenietis requiem animabus uestris. iugum enim meum suaue est et onus meum leue est. ### English translation (Claude) To this Noah, then, our Lord, who is the Word made flesh, will be compared, who says in the Gospels: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light." ### Scripture references - John 1:14: allusion, high confidence - Matt 11:28: quotation, high confidence - Matt 11:29: quotation, high confidence - Matt 11:30: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Matt 11:28–30; allusion: John 1:14. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.13.2 (CSEL 65:13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.13.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-3 - Source: CSEL 65:13–14 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Christ shelters his children in the ark of the church and gives the Spirit, dies, and rises. ### Latin text facit ergo requiescere et animabus requiem impertit et ob imminens iudicium in doctrinae et ecclesiae suae arcam filios et genitos et nuncupatos recondit et spiritum sanctum tribuit et moritur et inridetur et resurgit et ### English translation (Claude) He makes us rest, then, and gives rest to souls, and because of the coming judgment he shelters his sons, both begotten and named, in the ark of his teaching and of his church; and he gives the Holy Spirit, and dies, and is mocked, and rises, and ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.13.4. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.13.3 (CSEL 65:13–14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.13.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-4 - Source: CSEL 65:14 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The order of entering and leaving the ark signifies the church's sanctification. ### Latin text humano generi recte perperamue gestorum poenam sanctificationemque constituit. et in eo quidem, cum arcam ingredi aut egredi ex ea Noe iubetur, ratio ecclesiae sanctificationis est contuenda. scriptum enim est: introibis autem in arcam tu et filii tui et uxor tua et uxores filiorum tuorum; et rursum: dixit dominus deus ad Noe dicens: ### English translation (Claude) sets for the human race punishment or sanctification for deeds done rightly or wrongly. And in him, when Noah is ordered to enter the ark or go out of it, the principle of the church's sanctification is to be observed. For it is written: "You shall enter the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives"; and again: "The Lord God spoke to Noah, saying: ### Scripture references - Gen 6:18: quotation, high confidence - Gen 8:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 6:18; the next quotation (Gen 8:15–16) continues in 1.13.5. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.13.4 (CSEL 65:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.13.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-5 - Source: CSEL 65:14 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Men and women enter the ark separately but leave as couples, signifying continence and the later use of marriage; then a gap. ### Latin text exi de arca tu et uxor tua et filii tui et uxores filiorum tuorum. sexum arcam ingredientium inuicem sociat, uirorum ad uirum, mulierum ad feminam. continentes scilicet ecclesiam introituros oportere esse significans. sui postea unumquemque coniugii copiam recepturum ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ * ∗ ∗ ∗ * * * ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ * ∗ ∗ * * ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ cum ter est emissa. ### English translation (Claude) Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives." The order of those entering the ark joins the sexes together, men with men, women with women, signifying that those who would enter the church must be continent; and that afterwards each would receive again the use of his own marriage. … when she was sent out a third time. ### Scripture references - Gen 8:16: quotation, high confidence - Gen 8:12: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 8:16. Hilary contrasts the order of entering (Gen 6:18, men then women) with the order of leaving (couples). - A long gap in the manuscript follows; the text resumes in the discussion of the dove sent out three times (Gen 8:8–12). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.13.5 (CSEL 65:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-13-5). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.14.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-14-1 - Source: CSEL 65:14 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The dove's second flight has a clear meaning. ### Latin text Et sequens quidem emissio non incertum est quid praefiguret. ### English translation (Claude) And it is not uncertain what the following sending out prefigures. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.14.1 (CSEL 65:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-14-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.14.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-14-2 - Source: CSEL 65:14 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The dove's return with the olive leaf prefigures the seventy disciples returning in triumph. ### Latin text cum oliuae namque fructuosis foliis reuertitur, non iam manu recipienda, sed reuolans. impletum autem istud est, cum accepto sancto spiritu septuaginta discipuli ad praedicandum euangelium emissi cum gloria subditorum sibi immundorum spirituum reuertuntur, fructum misericordiae dei, qui significatus in oliua est, ### English translation (Claude) For she returns with the fruitful leaves of the olive, no longer to be taken back by hand, but flying back. This was fulfilled when the seventy disciples, having received the Holy Spirit, sent out to preach the Gospel, returned with the glory of the unclean spirits subjected to them, the Holy Spirit bringing back the fruit of God's mercy, which is signified in the olive, ### Scripture references - Gen 8:11: allusion, high confidence - Luke 10:1: allusion, high confidence - Luke 10:17: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Gen 8:11; Luke 10:1, 17. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.14.2 (CSEL 65:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-14-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.14.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-14-3 - Source: CSEL 65:14–15 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The dove's three flights signify the Spirit's mission, the disciples' desertion, and his lasting indwelling in believers. ### Latin text sancto spiritu reportante et quia discedentibus his postea a domino nullam etiam requiem esset habiturus. cum fructu tamen ad Noe columba reuolauit significans per id in reditu secundo et subiectis daemoniis sancti spiritus fructum et discedentibus a domino discipulis consistendi adhuc re(quiem nullam). tertia uero emissio atque euolatio habitationem eius, quae in credente est, praeformat spiritu sancto emisso in aeternum (in) fidelium animis permanente. ### English translation (Claude) and because, when these later departed from the Lord, the Spirit would have no rest. Yet the dove flew back to Noah with fruit, signifying by this, in the second return, both the fruit of the Holy Spirit in the subjected demons and, when the disciples departed from the Lord, that there was as yet no rest for him to settle. But the third sending out and flight prefigures his dwelling, which is in the believer, the Holy Spirit, once sent, abiding for ever in the souls of the faithful. ### Scripture references - Gen 8:9: allusion, high confidence - Gen 8:12: allusion, high confidence - John 14:16: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Words in round brackets ("quiem nullam", "in") are the editor's supplements of the damaged manuscript; translated. - Allusions: Gen 8:9–12; John 14:16–17. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.14.3 (CSEL 65:14–15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-14-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.15.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-15-1 - Source: CSEL 65:15 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Noah's drunkenness from the vine prefigures the passion, caused by the vineyard Israel. ### Latin text Iam uero de fructu plantatae uineae ebrietas passionis est species. uineam enim ex Egypto transtulit et plantauit dominus, et rursum: uinea domini Sabaoth domus Israhel est. ex operibus enim translati et plantati populi sui passionis est causa. quam Noe ebrietatem si forte quis non pertinere [se] ad speciem dominicae mortis existimabit, de consequentibus arguetur, quamquam potatus in euangeliis calix mortem passionis ostendat. ### English translation (Claude) Now the drunkenness from the fruit of the planted vineyard is a figure of the passion. For "the Lord brought a vine out of Egypt and planted it"; and again: "The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel." For the cause of the passion came from the works of his people, transplanted and planted. If anyone perhaps thinks that this drunkenness of Noah does not pertain to the figure of the Lord's death, he will be refuted by what follows; although the cup drunk in the Gospels shows the death of the passion. ### Scripture references - Gen 9:21: allusion, high confidence - Ps 80:8 (79:9 Vulg.): quotation, high confidence - Isa 5:7: quotation, high confidence - Matt 26:39: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The editor deletes "se" after "pertinere"; it is left out. - Quotations: Ps 80:8 (79:9 Vulg.); Isa 5:7. The cup: Matt 26:39. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.15.1 (CSEL 65:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-15-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.15.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-15-2 - Source: CSEL 65:15 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Noah's three sons represent the Gentiles who mock Christ's death and the law and grace that honor it. ### Latin text tres autem filii cum essent, nuditas patris ridetur ab uno et rursum contegitur a duobus; sed cum duo unianimiter texerint, maledicto tertio in duobus tamen operis unius diuersa benedictio est. sub his autem tribus filiis uniuersitas hominum monstratur, id est sub lege uiuentium et sub gratia iustificatorum et gentium. ex quibus gentes mortem domini et nudum dei corpus irridunt, in duobus autem contegentibus nuditatem lex et gratia continetur. ### English translation (Claude) And since there were three sons, the father's nakedness is laughed at by one and again covered by two; but though the two covered it with one mind, the third being cursed, there is yet a different blessing in the two for one work. Under these three sons the whole of mankind is shown: those living under the law, those justified under grace, and the Gentiles. Of these, the Gentiles mock the Lord's death and the naked body of God; but in the two who cover the nakedness, the law and grace are contained. ### Scripture references - Gen 9:22: allusion, high confidence - Gen 9:23: allusion, high confidence - Gen 9:25: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Gen 9:22–27. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.15.2 (CSEL 65:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-15-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.16.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-16-1 - Source: CSEL 65:15 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Japheth in Shem's tents signifies the Gentiles brought to faith; then a gap. ### Latin text Quia autem Iaphet in domibus Sem collocatur, figuram gentium ostendit, quae ad fidem inductae sunt; Sem uero Israhelitici populi personam gerit∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ * * * ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ DE ABRAHAM. ### English translation (Claude) And because Japheth is settled in the houses of Shem, he shows the figure of the Gentiles, who have been led to faith; but Shem bears the person of the Israelite people … On Abraham. ### Scripture references - Gen 9:27: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Gen 9:27. A long gap in the manuscript follows. The last words are the edition's chapter heading, supplied by the editor. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.16.1 (CSEL 65:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-16-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.17.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-17-1 - Source: CSEL 65:15–16 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: A fragment: Sarah signifies the church, Hagar the synagogue. ### Latin text ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Sarra etiam ecclesiam signat, Agar synagogam......... ### English translation (Claude) … Sarah also signifies the church, Hagar the synagogue … ### Scripture references - Gal 4:24: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Fragmentary; text is lost before and after. Allusion: Gal 4:22–26. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.17.1 (CSEL 65:15–16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-17-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.17.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-17-2 - Source: CSEL 65:16 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Isaac prefigures Christ and his passion in the sacrifice on the mountain. ### Latin text semen autem uocatum in Ysaac Christum esse monstrat; in quo etiam praefiguratio passionis est edita, cum a patre ad hostiam uocatur, cum ligna sacrificii suscipit, cum ad consummationem hostiae aries assistit. ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ### English translation (Claude) And it shows that the seed called in Isaac is Christ; in whom too a prefiguration of the passion is set forth, when he is called by his father to be a sacrifice, when he takes up the wood of the sacrifice, when a ram stands by to complete the sacrifice. … ### Scripture references - Gen 21:12: allusion, high confidence - Gal 3:16: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 22:2: allusion, high confidence - Gen 22:6: allusion, high confidence - Gen 22:13: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Text is lost after this section. Allusions: Gen 21:12; Rom 9:7; Gal 3:16; Gen 22:2, 6, 13. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.17.2 (CSEL 65:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-17-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.18.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-18-1 - Source: CSEL 65:16 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The letters added to Abram's and Sarai's names carry numerical meanings. ### Latin text In littera Abrae addita unus est numerus, in ea, quae Sarrae accedit, centum habentur et saluator relictis ### English translation (Claude) In the letter added to Abram's name the number is one; in the one that is added to Sarai's, a hundred is found; and the Savior, leaving ### Scripture references - Gen 17:5: allusion, high confidence - Gen 17:15: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Hilary reckons by Greek letter values: alpha (1) added to "Abram" (Abraam), rho (100) to "Sara" (Sarra). The sentence continues in 1.18.2. - Allusion: Gen 17:5, 15. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.18.1 (CSEL 65:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-18-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.18.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-18-2 - Source: CSEL 65:16–17 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Christ, the one added, seeks the hundredth sheep; an appended passage explains a three-week season before the Lord's coming. ### Latin text nonaginta nouem in montibus abiit unam, quae errauerat, quaerere. ergo unus numerus in littera Abrae additur. unus est enim dominus Iesus Christus, natus ex uirgine, et ab illo uno omnia crimina credentium mundata sunt. et quod per se explendum erat in Abraam. praefigurat: ille per adiectionem unius pater gentium nuncupatur, ipse per assumptionem unius pater et redemptor gentium constituitur reddita Sarrae, id est ecclesiae primitiuae caelestis Ierusalem, centesima oue. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 18* Sicut pater ille familias in euangelio trino aduentu infructuosam ficulneam uisitauit, sic sancta mater ecclesia saluatoris aduentum annuo recursu per trium septimanarum secretum spatium sibi indicauit. uenit enim filius hominis quaerere et saluum facere, quod perierat. uenit ante legem, quia per naturalem intellectum, quid unicuique agendum quidue sequendum sit, innotuit. uenit sub lege, quia patriarcharum exemplis et prophetarum praeconiis semini Abrahae legalia confirmauit decreta. uenit tertio post legem per gratiam ad uocationem gentium, ut a solis ortu usque ad occasum laudare discerent pueri nomen domini, quos usque ad finem mundi ad suae maiestatis cultum exhortari non desinit. * * * * * ** * * * DE VSAHAC. ### English translation (Claude) the ninety-nine on the mountains, went away to seek the one that had strayed. So the number one is added in Abram's letter. For there is one Lord Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin, and by that one all the crimes of believers have been cleansed. And what was to be fulfilled through himself he prefigures in Abraham: the one, by the addition of one, is called father of the nations; the other, by the assumption of one, is established father and redeemer of the nations, the hundredth sheep being restored to Sarah, that is, to the primitive church of the heavenly Jerusalem. … [18*] As that householder in the Gospel visited the fruitless fig tree with a threefold coming, so holy mother church has marked for herself the coming of the Savior in a yearly return through a set-apart space of three weeks. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost. He came before the law, because what each should do or follow was made known through natural understanding. He came under the law, because by the examples of the patriarchs and the proclamations of the prophets he confirmed the decrees of the law to the seed of Abraham. He came a third time, after the law, through grace, for the calling of the Gentiles, so that from the rising of the sun to its setting the children might learn to praise the name of the Lord; and he does not cease to exhort them to the worship of his majesty until the end of the world. … On Isaac. ### Scripture references - Matt 18:12: allusion, high confidence - Luke 15:4: allusion, high confidence - Gen 17:5: allusion, high confidence - Gal 4:26: allusion, medium confidence - Luke 13:7: allusion, high confidence - Luke 19:10: quotation, high confidence - Ps 113:3 (112:3 Vulg.): allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The passage marked [18*] after the gap, on a three-week season before Christmas, is printed by the editor as a separate piece; it reflects later liturgical practice and is probably not by Hilary (uncertain). - Quotations and allusions: Matt 18:12; Luke 15:4; Gen 17:5; Gal 4:26; Luke 13:6–9; Luke 19:10; Ps 113:1–3 (112:1–3 Vulg.). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.18.2 (CSEL 65:16–17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-18-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.19.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-19-1 - Source: CSEL 65:17–18 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: A fragment: Rebecca prefigures the church in her marriage and, in her twins, two peoples. ### Latin text | ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Rebecca duplicem habet figuram coniugii et partus et in coniugio ecclesiae typum praefert: camelos, id est gentes Christo subditas, potat; fidei auditum per inaures docet; armillas manuum ostendit boni operis ornatus; de nuptiis interrogata consociandorum Christo more respondet, ut ad uisum perueniat; de domo patris egreditur ostendens, quia, nisi renuntiauerit quis uitiis et concupiscentiis, Christi seruus esse non poterit; duas gentes duos populos signat. * ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ DE JACOB. ### English translation (Claude) … Rebecca has a double figure, of marriage and of childbirth, and in marriage she presents a type of the church: she gives drink to the camels, that is, to the Gentiles subjected to Christ; she teaches the hearing of faith through the earrings; she shows the adornment of good work by the bracelets of the hands; asked about the marriage, she answers in the manner of those to be joined to Christ, so as to come to the sight of him; she goes out from her father's house, showing that unless one renounces vices and lusts he cannot be Christ's servant; she signifies two nations, two peoples. … On Jacob. ### Scripture references - Gen 24:19: allusion, high confidence - Gen 24:22: allusion, high confidence - Gen 24:58: allusion, high confidence - Gen 25:23: allusion, high confidence - Luke 14:33: allusion, low confidence ### Translation notes - Fragmentary; text is lost before and after. The last words are the edition's chapter heading. - Allusions: Gen 24:19, 22, 58; Gen 25:23; Luke 14:33. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.19.1 (CSEL 65:17–18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-19-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.20.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-20-1 - Source: CSEL 65:18 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: A fragment on Esau's name, beginning with the red stew. ### Latin text ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ proprietatem nominis huius scriptura interpretante. et dixit Esau ad Iacob: da mihi gustare de coctura (rufa) hac, quia deficio. ### English translation (Claude) … Scripture interpreting the proper meaning of this name: "And Esau said to Jacob: Let me taste of this red stew, for I am faint." ### Scripture references - Gen 25:30: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The beginning is lost. "Rufa" (red) in round brackets is the editor's supplement; translated. Quotation: Gen 25:30. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.20.1 (CSEL 65:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-20-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.20.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-20-2 - Source: CSEL 65:18 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Esau sells his birthright. ### Latin text propter hoc appellatum est nomen eius Edom. primitiua deinde sua ob cibum uendidit dicens: ecce ego morior, et quo mihi hos primatus? in primatibus autem haec apud ueteres erat dignitas, ### English translation (Claude) "For this reason his name was called Edom." Then he sold his birthright for food, saying: "Behold, I am dying, and what are these first rights to me?" Among the ancients this was the dignity of the first rights, ### Scripture references - Gen 25:30: quotation, high confidence - Gen 25:32: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotations: Gen 25:30, 32. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.20.2 (CSEL 65:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-20-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.20.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-20-3 - Source: CSEL 65:18 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Esau's contempt for his birthright prefigures the first people losing the hope of resurrection through carnal desire. ### Latin text ut domus paternae hereditatem primogenitus optineret fratribus, qui deinceps essent, ei subditis. ergo cum in corpore uiuentibus primitiuorum dignitas de uita sit, quam sub praefiguratione populi infidelis Esau ob carnalia desideria uendebat, non utique de praesenti primitiuorum honore desperat dicens: ecce ego morior, et quo mihi hos primatus? — nam ante mortem primatus ille, qui hominum est, percipiebatur —, sed quia, formam populi in se gerens, primitiuus ipse per legem — prior enim hic populus in dei hereditatem fuerat electus — de spe resurrectionis et gloriae dei excidit, desideriis corporis occupatus suum honorem desperasse se proferebat, quem primogenitum conuenerat sperare post mortem. ### English translation (Claude) that the firstborn should obtain the inheritance of the father's house, the brothers born after being subject to him. Since, then, for those living in the body the dignity of the firstborn concerns this life, which Esau, in the prefiguration of the unbelieving people, sold for carnal desires, he does not despair of the present honor of the firstborn when he says, "Behold, I am dying, and what are these first rights to me?" (for that primacy which belongs to men was received before death); but because, bearing in himself the form of the people, himself the firstborn through the law (for this people had been chosen first into God's inheritance), he fell from the hope of resurrection and of the glory of God; occupied with the desires of the body, he declared that he despaired of his honor, which the firstborn should have hoped for after death. ### Scripture references - Gen 25:32: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.20.3 (CSEL 65:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-20-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.21.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-21-1 - Source: CSEL 65:18 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The rest of the story is both history and figure. ### Latin text Desperante itaque Esau de primitiis suis cetera et secundum facti fidem et secundum praefigurationis uirtutem geruntur. ### English translation (Claude) Esau, then, despairing of his first rights, the rest is done both according to the truth of the event and according to the power of the prefiguration. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.21.1 (CSEL 65:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-21-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.21.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-21-2 - Source: CSEL 65:18 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Isaac asks Esau for game; Rebecca prepares Jacob to take the blessing. ### Latin text Ysahac itaque cum esset hebetibus oculis, secundum consuetudinem monet Esau, uti sibi ex uenatione cibum praeparet et ante tempus suae mortis benedicatur ab eo. idque Rebecca cum comperisset, Iacob adhortatur, escas patri de haedis duobus citus praeparet et Esau stola induatur; ### English translation (Claude) So when Isaac's eyes were dim, he tells Esau, according to custom, to prepare him food from hunting and to be blessed by him before the time of his death. When Rebecca learned this, she urges Jacob to prepare food for his father quickly from two kids, and to put on Esau's robe, ### Scripture references - Gen 27:1: allusion, high confidence - Gen 27:9: allusion, high confidence - Gen 27:15: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Gen 27:1–15. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.21.2 (CSEL 65:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-21-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.21.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-21-3 - Source: CSEL 65:18–19 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Jacob, disguised, receives Isaac's blessing. ### Latin text manus eius, quia leuis sit, atque ceruicem illigatis sibi haedorum pellibus mentiatur. quibus gestis benedictionem. quae Esau erat parata, praeripuit. dehinc benedicitur talibus uerbis: ecce odor filii mei sicut odor agri pleni, quem benedixit dominus. et det tibi dominus rore caeli desusum et ab ubertate terrae abundantiam frumenti et uini. et seruiant tibi gentes et adorabunt te principes et esto dominus fratris tui et adorabunt te filii patris tui; et qui maledixerit te, maledictus erit, et qui benedixerit te, benedictus erit. ### English translation (Claude) and to counterfeit his hands, because they were smooth, and his neck, with kids' skins bound on. When this was done, he seized the blessing prepared for Esau. Then he is blessed in these words: "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a full field which the Lord has blessed. And may the Lord give you of the dew of heaven from above and of the fatness of the earth abundance of grain and wine. And let nations serve you, and princes shall worship you; and be lord of your brother, and the sons of your father shall worship you; and whoever curses you shall be cursed, and whoever blesses you shall be blessed." ### Scripture references - Gen 27:16: allusion, high confidence - Gen 27:27: quotation, high confidence - Gen 27:28: quotation, high confidence - Gen 27:29: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 27:27–29 (Greek/Latin form). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.21.3 (CSEL 65:18–19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-21-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.22.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-22-1 - Source: CSEL 65:19 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Esau gave up future honor for present pleasure; Jacob gave up the present for the future. ### Latin text Geritur quidem res secundum praesentem in Esau et Iacob effectum, sed spiritualis praeformatio ordinem suum optinet. uendiderat per desideria corporis primatus suos senior futurorum honorem ob luxum praesentium desperans eosque contra iacturam praesentium iunior coemit. ### English translation (Claude) The thing is indeed done according to its present effect in Esau and Jacob, but the spiritual prefiguration keeps its own order. The elder had sold his first rights through bodily desires, despairing of the honor of the future for the luxury of the present; and the younger bought them at the cost of present things. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.22.1 (CSEL 65:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-22-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.22.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-22-2 - Source: CSEL 65:19 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Believers, renouncing present pleasures, take the inheritance the first people lost. ### Latin text numquid non corporaliter gestis spiritualiter gerenda succedunt? qui infideles sunt, omne bonum in uoluptate positum existimant et anterior populus honorem resurrectionis per desideria carnis amisit; credentes autem renuntiant praesentibus gaudiis omnem in futurorum spem suam locantes et ob eam animo et corpore continentes praeripiunt destinata seniori. ### English translation (Claude) Do not things to be done spiritually follow upon things done bodily? Unbelievers think that every good lies in pleasure, and the earlier people lost the honor of resurrection through the desires of the flesh; but believers renounce present joys, placing all their hope in things to come, and, being continent in mind and body for its sake, they seize what was destined for the elder. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.22.2 (CSEL 65:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-22-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.22.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-22-3 - Source: CSEL 65:19 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Esau's robe on Jacob signifies immortality, as the best robe given to the prodigal son; the kidskins signify the sinner's form. ### Latin text nam Iacob Esau stola induitur, quae pro immortalitatis ueste commemorari solet etiam in euangelio, ubi stolam primam iunior frater et idem accepti patrimonii decoctor accepit. et quia ex peccatis esset in nitorem innocentiae transferendus, ideo Iacob haedorum pellibus tegitur, re quidem ipsa fratris speciem imitaturus. sed quia ex peccatore esset dignitatem occupatae benedictionis habiturus, in pellibus emortuarum pecudum formam peccatoris adsumit. ### English translation (Claude) For Jacob is clothed with Esau's robe, which is usually mentioned as the garment of immortality, even in the Gospel, where the younger brother, the same who had squandered the patrimony he received, received the first robe. And because he was to be transferred from sins into the brightness of innocence, Jacob is therefore covered with kids' skins, in the event itself imitating his brother's appearance; but because he was to have, as a sinner, the dignity of the blessing he seized, in the skins of dead animals he takes on the form of a sinner. ### Scripture references - Gen 27:15: allusion, high confidence - Gen 27:16: allusion, high confidence - Luke 15:22: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Luke 15:22. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.22.3 (CSEL 65:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-22-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.23.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-23-1 - Source: CSEL 65:19 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Isaac's blessing was not fulfilled in Jacob's lifetime. ### Latin text Ipsa autem benedictionis ratio uerborumque uirtus nihil illic secundum gesta praesentia intelligendum esse demonstrat. ### English translation (Claude) The very reasoning of the blessing and the force of the words show that nothing there is to be understood according to the deeds of the time. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.23.1 (CSEL 65:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-23-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.23.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-23-2 - Source: CSEL 65:19–20 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Jacob was promised plenty but suffered famine. ### Latin text benedicitur enim Iacob, ut de rore caeli et ubertate terrae abundet uino et tritico. contra uero famem periclitatus est et ex Egypto ### English translation (Claude) For Jacob is blessed to abound in wine and wheat from the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth. On the contrary, he was endangered by famine and bought grain ### Scripture references - Gen 27:28: allusion, high confidence - Gen 42:2: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.23.3. Allusion: Gen 42:1–2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.23.2 (CSEL 65:19–20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-23-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.23.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-23-3 - Source: CSEL 65:20 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Jacob was promised dominion but served Pharaoh and Laban. ### Latin text frumenta emit. in seruitutem ei gentes subiciuntur; quin potius in ius Pharaonis ipse cum omni sua familia se dedit. adorandus a principibus dicitur, sed magis dominante Laban seruitutem multi temporis pertulit. ### English translation (Claude) from Egypt. Nations are made subject to him in servitude; rather, he himself gave himself with his whole household into Pharaoh's power. He is said to be worshiped by princes, but rather he endured a long servitude under the rule of Laban. ### Scripture references - Gen 47:6: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 31:41: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Gen 47:1–12; Gen 29–31. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.23.3 (CSEL 65:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-23-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.23.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-23-4 - Source: CSEL 65:20 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Since Scripture cannot lie, Jacob's blessing is fulfilled in the faithful people he prefigured. ### Latin text dominus fratri suo constituitur; at quid fratrem suum tamquam dominum adorauit? ergo quia scriptura mendacio non periclitatur, licet in Iacob haec dicta sint, in populum tamen. quem praeformabat. et significantur et aguntur. haec enim omnia secundum prophetica et euangelica promissa fidelibus reseruantur, quippe mundum et angelos iudicaturis et in regni caelestis consortium destinatis. ### English translation (Claude) He is made lord over his brother; yet why did he worship his brother as a lord? Since, then, Scripture is not in danger of falsehood, although these things were said of Jacob, they are both signified and carried out in the people whom he prefigured. For all these things, according to the prophetic and gospel promises, are reserved for the faithful, who are to judge the world and the angels and are destined for fellowship in the heavenly kingdom. ### Scripture references - Gen 33:3: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 6:2: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 6:3: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Jacob bowing to Esau: Gen 33:3. Judging the world and angels: 1 Cor 6:2–3. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.23.4 (CSEL 65:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-1-1/#p-1-23-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.24.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-24-1 - Source: CSEL 65:20 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The opening of Isaac's blessing points to the future. ### Latin text Denique ipsud illud benedictionis exordium non res praesentes, sed futuras perfectasque complectitur. ait enim: ecce ### English translation (Claude) Finally, the very opening of the blessing embraces not present things but future and perfected ones. For he says: "Behold, ### Translation notes - The quotation continues in 1.24.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.24.1 (CSEL 65:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-24-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.24.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-24-2 - Source: CSEL 65:20 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The smell signifies prophetic foreknowledge; the full field, the world. ### Latin text odor filii mei tamquam odor agri pleni, quem benedixit deus. odor spiritus est praescientia, ager plenus perfectio fructuum est. et ager, sicut euangelia docent, pro saeculo nuncupatur; benedictum autem saeculum non utique, quod ### English translation (Claude) the smell of my son is as the smell of a full field which God has blessed." Smell is the foreknowledge of the spirit; the full field is the perfection of fruits. And the field, as the Gospels teach, stands for the world; but a blessed world must certainly be thought to mean not the one that ### Scripture references - Gen 27:27: quotation, high confidence - Matt 13:38: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 27:27. The field is the world: Matt 13:38. The sentence continues in 1.24.3. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.24.2 (CSEL 65:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-24-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.24.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-24-3 - Source: CSEL 65:20 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Isaac foresaw by the Spirit the blessing of the younger people in the eternal world. ### Latin text dissoluetur et non erit, sed quod aeternum et perfectis fructibus plenum est, significari existimandum est. ergo cum idem sit odor Iacob, qui agri pleni est, odor autem secundum naturam rerum praescientia sit spiritus, cum, quid unaquaeque res sit. ex odoratione sentitur, hanc odorari se, id est praescire spiritu, benedictionem populi iunioris Ysahac significat atque aeterni saeculi futuram utroque illo, id est et saeculo et qui eo sit usurus, aeterno. ### English translation (Claude) will be dissolved and will not be, but the one that is eternal and full of perfected fruits. Since, then, Jacob's smell is the same as that of the full field, and smell, according to the nature of things, is the foreknowledge of the spirit (since what each thing is is perceived by smelling), Isaac signifies that he smells, that is, foreknows by the spirit, the blessing of the younger people and the future blessing of the eternal world, eternal in both respects, that is, both in the world and in the one who will enjoy it. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.24.3 (CSEL 65:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-24-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.25.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-1 - Source: CSEL 65:20 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Scripture is written so that history and future hope coincide. ### Latin text Atque ut abundantem dei misericordiam in praeformandis sub praesentibus futurorum effectibus cerneremus, omnia ita dili- ### English translation (Claude) And so that we might discern the abundant mercy of God in prefiguring the effects of the future under present things, everything was so carefully ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.25.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.25.1 (CSEL 65:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.25.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-2 - Source: CSEL 65:20–21 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Blind Isaac tests Jacob by touch. ### Latin text genter edita atque scripta sunt, ut et in rem gestam et in spem futuram unus atque idem historiae ordo concurreret. benedicturus enim Ysahac Iacob pro Esau sollicitus est, ne quoquo genere fallatur; Esau enim se Iacob esse dicebat. caecus ergo Ysahac cum esset, dicebat: accede ad me et pertentabo te, fili, si tu es filius meus Esau aut non. ### English translation (Claude) set forth and written that one and the same order of history concurs both in the event done and in the future hope. For Isaac, about to bless Jacob in place of Esau, is anxious not to be deceived in any way; for Jacob was saying he was Esau. Isaac, then, being blind, said: "Come near to me, and I will feel you, my son, whether you are my son Esau or not." ### Scripture references - Gen 27:21: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 27:21. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.25.2 (CSEL 65:20–21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.25.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-3 - Source: CSEL 65:21 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Isaac suspects the deception: the voice is Jacob's, the hands Esau's. ### Latin text et quamquam ille esset et Esau esset stola indutus et eius speciem pellium adsumptione mentitus, tamen non sine suspicione contractatus a caeco est. ait enim, cum palparet eum: uox quidem uox Iacob, manus autem manus sunt Esau. ergo per haec sollicitus in Esau Ysahac docetur affectus. ### English translation (Claude) And although he was clothed in Esau's robe and had counterfeited his appearance by putting on the skins, yet he was handled by the blind man not without suspicion. For he said, as he felt him: "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." By these things, then, Isaac's anxious affection for Esau is shown. ### Scripture references - Gen 27:22: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 27:22. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.25.3 (CSEL 65:21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.25.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-4 - Source: CSEL 65:21 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: When Esau returns, Isaac confirms the blessing given to Jacob. ### Latin text quo postea reuertente ex agro atque uenatu et se patri tamquam primogenitum, ut benedicat sibi, ingerente et praereptione benedictionis comperta Ysahac non commouetur; quin potius in benedictionis ipsius confirmatione persistit dicens: si dominum illum feci tuum et omnes fratres eius feci illi seruos, frumento et uino confirmaui eum, tibi autem quid faciam, fili? ### English translation (Claude) But when Esau afterwards returned from the field and the hunt and presented himself to his father as the firstborn, that he might bless him, and the seizing of the blessing was discovered, Isaac is not moved; rather, he persists in confirming the blessing itself, saying: "If I have made him your lord and made all his brothers his servants, and confirmed him with grain and wine, what shall I do for you, my son?" ### Scripture references - Gen 27:30: allusion, high confidence - Gen 27:37: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 27:37. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.25.4 (CSEL 65:21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.25.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-5 - Source: CSEL 65:21 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Isaac gives Esau a lesser blessing with the promise of breaking his brother's yoke. ### Latin text quin potius fletu et lacrimis, ut se benediceret, deprecanti ita ait: ecce ab ubertate terrae erit habitatio tua et a rore caeli desusum et in gladio tuo uiues et fratri tuo seruies. erit autem, cum deposueris iugum ipsius a collo tuo. ### English translation (Claude) Rather, when he begged with weeping and tears that he would bless him, he spoke thus: "Behold, your dwelling shall be from the fatness of the earth and from the dew of heaven above, and by your sword you shall live and serve your brother. But it shall be, when you put off his yoke from your neck." ### Scripture references - Gen 27:38: allusion, high confidence - Gen 27:39: quotation, high confidence - Gen 27:40: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Gen 27:38–40 (Greek/Latin form). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.25.5 (CSEL 65:21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-25-5). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.26.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-1 - Source: CSEL 65:21 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Isaac's anxiety came from fatherly love; his refusal to change the blessing came from prophetic knowledge. ### Latin text Unde igitur haec conuersio uoluntatis est? et cur dissentit a se hominis affectus, nisi quod sermo scripturae et ad rerum efficientiam et ad spei expectationem temperatur? sollicitudinem interrogantis de affectu patrio habuit, demutationem benedictionis de spiritali scientia abnegauit. ### English translation (Claude) Whence, then, is this change of will? And why does the man's affection disagree with itself, unless because the language of Scripture is tempered both to the accomplishing of events and to the expectation of hope? He had the anxiety of questioning from fatherly affection; he refused to change the blessing from spiritual knowledge. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.26.1 (CSEL 65:21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.26.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-2 - Source: CSEL 65:21 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Isaac acted both as father and as prophet. ### Latin text illic rem naturae egit, hic praeformationis ordinem tenuit; illic pater in primogeniti sanctificatione sollicitus est, hic in benedictione populi iunioris prophetae spiritu perseuerat. ### English translation (Claude) There he did a thing of nature; here he kept the order of prefiguration. There the father is anxious in the sanctifying of the firstborn; here he perseveres, in the spirit of a prophet, in the blessing of the younger people. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.26.2 (CSEL 65:21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.26.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-3 - Source: CSEL 65:21 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Even Esau's blessing holds out hope to the first people if it believes. ### Latin text et rem gestam historia loquitur et spem praefiguratam suus ordo non deserit. sed ne in eo quidem prophetica ratio cessauit; quin peccator et prior populus benedictionem populi iunioris posset sperare, si crederet. ### English translation (Claude) And history tells of the event done, and its order does not abandon the prefigured hope. But not even in this did the prophetic reasoning cease: that the sinful and earlier people could hope for the blessing of the younger people, if it believed. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.26.3 (CSEL 65:21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.26.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-4 - Source: CSEL 65:21–22 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Salvation is open to all; delay lies in the human will. ### Latin text omnibus enim patet aditus ad salutem et iter uitae non molestiis suis, quae utique nullae sunt, sed arbitrii nostri iure difficile est. ad consequendam enim dei misericordiam humanae uoluntatis est mora, quod ex hoc ipso, quia de Esau est, sermone fit cognitum. benedici enim se poposcerat, sed pater spiritali motu ### English translation (Claude) For to all the approach to salvation lies open, and the way of life is difficult not because of its own troubles, which in fact are none, but by the right of our own choice. For the delay in obtaining God's mercy lies in the human will, which becomes known from this very word about Esau. For he had asked to be blessed, but the father, moved by a spiritual impulse, ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.26.5. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.26.4 (CSEL 65:21–22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.26.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-5 - Source: CSEL 65:22 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Esau may yet be blessed by casting off his yoke, since each is free to come to faith. ### Latin text instinctus eum et saeculo reliquit et gladio permisit et seruituti fratris addixit. sed ne haec in perpetuum et sine reditu paenitentiae decreta existimarentur, benedictionem, quam postulabat, in id distulit, cum iugum eius dominaturi fratris deposuisset a collo suo. sui ergo relinquitur iuris iugum deponere, quia unicuique ad fidem ius propriae uoluntatis est liberum benedictione tum digno, cum se in fidei libertatem ex inreligiositatis seruitute transtulerit. DE MOVSE. ### English translation (Claude) both left him to the world and gave him over to the sword and assigned him to his brother's servitude. But lest these decrees be thought perpetual and without return through repentance, he deferred the blessing he asked for until he should put off from his neck the yoke of the brother who was to rule him. It is left to his own right, then, to put off the yoke, because to each the right of his own will is free for faith, and he is worthy of blessing when he has passed from the servitude of irreligion into the freedom of faith. On Moses. ### Scripture references - Gen 27:40: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The last words are the edition's chapter heading. Allusion: Gen 27:40. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.26.5 (CSEL 65:22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-26-5). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.27.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-27-1 - Source: CSEL 65:22 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Moses' deeds continue the pattern of prefiguration begun with Adam. ### Latin text Editio rerum in Moyse gestarum coeptae quoque iam ab Adam praefigurationis ordinem tenuit. et dignum hoc misericordia dei, ut omnium patriarcharum suorum gesta in aliquantum per- ### English translation (Claude) The account of the deeds of Moses also kept the order of prefiguration begun already with Adam. And it is worthy of the mercy of God that the deeds of all his patriarchs should imitate to some extent the perfection ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.27.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.27.1 (CSEL 65:22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-27-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.27.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-27-2 - Source: CSEL 65:22 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The patriarchs' deeds imperfectly imitate what is fully realized in Christ. ### Latin text fectionem eorum, quae in domino nostro consummanda erant, imitarentur. ea enim, quae in uno illo et per unum illum expleta sunt, per species et tempora et generationes praeformantur ex aliquo. neque enim tot saeculorum imitatio consequi potuit id, quod in uno illo est ueritatis, sed tamen nihil ita in singulis uel per singulos gestum est, ut non ea, quae deinceps aut per eum aut in eo consummata sunt, prope ipsam gestorum praesentium imitationem loquerentur. ### English translation (Claude) of the things that were to be completed in our Lord. For what was fulfilled in that one man and through that one man is partly prefigured through figures, times, and generations. For the imitation of so many ages could not attain what of truth is in that one man; and yet nothing was done in individuals or through individuals in such a way that it did not speak of what was afterwards completed through him or in him, almost by the very imitation of present deeds. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.27.2 (CSEL 65:22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-27-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.28.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-28-1 - Source: CSEL 65:22 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Moses is born under Pharaoh's decree. ### Latin text Moyses etenim natus eo tempore, quo omnes masculini ### English translation (Claude) For Moses, born at the time when Pharaoh had ordered all male ### Scripture references - Exod 1:22: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.28.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.28.1 (CSEL 65:22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-28-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.28.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-28-2 - Source: CSEL 65:22 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Moses' rescue on the water parallels Herod's threat to the infant Christ. ### Latin text sexus editos Pharao necari praeceperat, per lignum aquae innatans dux populo reseruatur. odium et metus regis numquid non par atque idem tempore eo, quo dominus noster secundum hominem est natus, exarsit in eundem nobis hominem, quem adsumpsit per ### English translation (Claude) children who were born to be killed, floating on the water on wood, is preserved as leader for the people. Did not the hatred and fear of a king, equal and the same, blaze out at the time when our Lord was born according to man, against that same man for us whom he assumed through ### Scripture references - Exod 2:3: allusion, high confidence - Matt 2:16: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Exod 2:3; Matt 2:16. The sentence continues in 1.28.3. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.28.2 (CSEL 65:22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-28-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.28.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-28-3 - Source: CSEL 65:22–23 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Pharaoh's daughter finds Moses, his sister brings his mother to nurse him, and he is adopted. ### Latin text sacramentum ligni atque aquae in se, ac sibi ad caelestem gloriam deputatum et regem gentium constitutum? hunc deinde abluenda fluuio Pharaonis filia suscepit Moysen. soror cum adesset, nutricem ex Hebreis optulit. matrem deinde exhibuit, alendum illa suscepit et Pharao filiae retulit, quae receptum adsumpsit in filium. ### English translation (Claude) the mystery of wood and water in himself, and who was appointed to heavenly glory and established king of the nations? Then Pharaoh's daughter, coming to bathe at the river, took up this Moses. His sister, being present, offered a nurse from the Hebrews. She then brought his mother; she took him to nurse, and brought him back to Pharaoh's daughter, who received him and adopted him as her son. ### Scripture references - Exod 2:5: allusion, high confidence - Exod 2:7: allusion, high confidence - Exod 2:10: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Wood and water" refer to the cross and baptism. Allusions: Exod 2:5–10. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.28.3 (CSEL 65:22–23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-28-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.29.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-29-1 - Source: CSEL 65:23 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Moses' sister signifies the law, Pharaoh's daughter the Gentiles. ### Latin text Iunge personas, compara effectus, gesta intuere, inuenies in praesentium imitatione consequentium ueritatem. sub Moysi enim sorore lex usque ad sacramentum ligni atque aquae Christum prosecuta est. in Pharaonis uero filia gentium forma est, quae ### English translation (Claude) Join the persons, compare the effects, look at the deeds: you will find in the imitation of present things the truth of things to come. For under Moses' sister, the law followed Christ as far as the mystery of wood and water. And in Pharaoh's daughter is the figure of the Gentiles, who, ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.29.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.29.1 (CSEL 65:23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-29-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.29.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-29-2 - Source: CSEL 65:23 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The synagogue nursed Christ according to the flesh, while the Gentile church adopted him. ### Latin text quamuis secundum historiae fidem paruolum uiderit, tamen effectu ipso uirtutem prophetiae retinuit. lex enim ecclesiae tamquam Pharaonis filiae synagogam et nutriculam et matrem infantis exhibuit ac sic spiritalis ordo conseruatus in gestis est. ab hac enim lege id docente nutriri secundum carnem Christum conuenit, ab illa oportuit adoptari. ### English translation (Claude) though according to the truth of history she saw a little child, yet by the effect itself kept the power of prophecy. For the law presented to the church, as to Pharaoh's daughter, the synagogue as both nurse and mother of the infant; and so the spiritual order was preserved in the deeds. For it was fitting that Christ should be nursed according to the flesh by this, the law teaching it, and adopted by that one. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.29.2 (CSEL 65:23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-29-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.29.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-29-3 - Source: CSEL 65:23 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Moses' killing of the Egyptian prefigures Christ's victory over the devil for his people. ### Latin text magnus factus Moyses detentos in seruitio fratres requirit. deinde dominantem et iniuriam uni eorum inferentem Aegyptium prosternit ac postea ab eo ipso, quem de Aegyptio erat ultus, arguitur. nonne Christus consummatae et perfectae aetatis cum esset, populum suum, qui secundum carnem ei fratres sunt, uisitat? uenit enim ad oues perditas domus Israhel. nonne dominantem eorum diabolum prostrauit et uicit? ### English translation (Claude) Grown up, Moses seeks his brothers held in servitude. Then he strikes down an Egyptian who was ruling and doing injury to one of them, and afterwards is rebuked by the very one whom he had avenged on the Egyptian. Did not Christ, when he was of complete and perfect age, visit his people, who are his brothers according to the flesh? For he came to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Did he not strike down and conquer the devil who ruled them? ### Scripture references - Exod 2:11: allusion, high confidence - Exod 2:12: allusion, high confidence - Exod 2:14: allusion, high confidence - Matt 15:24: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Exod 2:11–14; Matt 15:24. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.29.3 (CSEL 65:23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-29-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.29.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-29-4 - Source: CSEL 65:23 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Christ bound the strong man and freed his people, yet was rejected by them, as Moses was. ### Latin text nemo enim uasa fortis diripiet, nisi prius fortem alligauerit. nonne ab his ipsis, quibus et de diabolo ultionem et de seruitio libertatem reddebat, arguitur? ita consummationem in deo gratiae consequitur ea, quae in latore legis imitatio est. ### English translation (Claude) For no one will plunder the goods of the strong man unless he first binds the strong man. Was he not rebuked by these very people to whom he was giving both vengeance on the devil and freedom from servitude? So the imitation in the lawgiver follows the consummation of grace in God. ### Scripture references - Matt 12:29: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Matt 12:29 (Mark 3:27). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.29.4 (CSEL 65:23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-29-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.30.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-30-1 - Source: CSEL 65:23–24 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The burning bush prefigures the church, burned by persecution but not consumed. ### Latin text Rubus in conspectu Moysi conflagrat nec tamen uritur: ecclesia uidelicet ex peccatorum persecutionum et temptationum flammis succenditur apostolo dicente: angustiam sustinentes, inopiam tolerantes, sed non derelinquimur. deicimur, sed non perimus, semper passiones Iesu in corpore circumferentes, ut et uita Iesu Christi in corpore nostro ### English translation (Claude) The bush burns in Moses' sight and yet is not consumed: that is, the church is set on fire by the flames of sins, persecutions, and temptations, as the Apostle says: "Suffering distress, enduring want, but we are not forsaken; we are cast down, but we do not perish; always carrying about in the body the sufferings of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus Christ may also be ### Scripture references - Exod 3:2: allusion, high confidence - 2 Cor 4:8: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 4:9: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 4:10: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Exod 3:2. Quotation: 2 Cor 4:8–10 (Hilary's Latin). The sentence continues in 1.30.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.30.1 (CSEL 65:23–24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-30-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.30.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-30-2 - Source: CSEL 65:24 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Iniquities rage against the church without consuming it. ### Latin text manifestetur. ita omnium iniquitatum in nos incendia desaeuiunt nec amburunt. ### English translation (Claude) manifested in our body." So the fires of all iniquities rage against us and do not burn us up. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 4:10: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.30.2 (CSEL 65:24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-30-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.31.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-31-1 - Source: CSEL 65:24 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Moses' rod becomes a serpent and then a rod again. ### Latin text Ponitur deinde signum fidei uirga in serpentem demutata et abolita serpens rursus in uirgam. ### English translation (Claude) Then a sign of faith is given: the rod changed into a serpent, and the serpent done away and changed back into a rod. ### Scripture references - Exod 4:3: allusion, high confidence - Exod 4:4: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Exod 4:2–4. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.31.1 (CSEL 65:24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-31-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.31.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-31-2 - Source: CSEL 65:24 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The rod turned serpent signifies Christ, God of the ages, slandered as Beelzebul. ### Latin text sed demutatio ista ad fidei confirmationem est, non ad naturae conuersionem. et quia in uirga potestas est regni et in serpente diaboli nuncupatio est, credere in eum ammonemur, qui ex deo saeculorum Beelzebul existimatus est, deinde ex Beelzebul dicto atque existimato per ### English translation (Claude) But this change is for the confirmation of faith, not for the conversion of nature. And because in the rod is the power of the kingdom and in the serpent the naming of the devil, we are admonished to believe in him who, from being God of the ages, was thought to be Beelzebul, and then, from being called and thought Beelzebul, through ### Scripture references - Matt 10:25: allusion, high confidence - Matt 12:24: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Matt 10:25; 12:24. The sentence continues in 1.31.3. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.31.2 (CSEL 65:24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-31-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.31.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-31-3 - Source: CSEL 65:24 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The hand made white in Moses' bosom signifies the glorification of the faithful at rest. ### Latin text resurrectionis demutationem deus saeculorum, id quod erat, agnitus est. cuius rei fidem sequens signum specie imitationis expleuit et spei satisfaciens et tempori. nam cum insinuata manus candorem niuis accepit, in sinu paterno quiescentes nos, id est Abrahae et ### English translation (Claude) the change of the resurrection, was recognized as God of the ages, which he was. The following sign fulfilled the truth of this by a figure of imitation, satisfying both hope and the time. For when the hand put into the bosom took on the whiteness of snow, it signifies that we, resting in the fathers' bosom, that is, of Abraham, ### Scripture references - Exod 4:6: allusion, high confidence - Luke 16:22: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Exod 4:6. Abraham's bosom: Luke 16:22. The sentence continues in 1.31.4. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.31.3 (CSEL 65:24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-31-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.31.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-31-4 - Source: CSEL 65:24 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The hand's restoration shows the glory is still future; water turned to blood signifies baptism leading to the Eucharist. ### Latin text Ysahac et Iacob, illuminandos esse significat natura corporis nostri in speciem gloriae atque honoris absorta. cum autem rursum ad id, quod fuerat, manus insinuata reuocatur, id, quod in signo fuerat praeformatum, nondum esse docetur in tempore. cum uero signo tertio aqua ex fluuio sumpta et in terram fusa sit sanguis, sacramenti ratio miscetur his, siquidem qui per aquam abluti in cognitionem sint sanguinis transituri. ### English translation (Claude) Isaac, and Jacob, are to be made bright, the nature of our body being swallowed up into the form of glory and honor. But when the hand, put into the bosom again, is restored to what it had been, it is taught that what was prefigured in the sign is not yet in time. And when, by the third sign, water taken from the river and poured on the ground became blood, the meaning of the sacrament is mingled with these things, since those washed by water are to pass over to the knowledge of the blood. ### Scripture references - Exod 4:7: allusion, high confidence - Exod 4:9: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 15:54: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - "Knowledge of the blood" refers to the Eucharist received after baptism. Allusions: Exod 4:7, 9; 1 Cor 15:54; Matt 8:11. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.31.4 (CSEL 65:24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-31-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.32.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-32-1 - Source: CSEL 65:24 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The patriarchal deeds agree in every respect with their fulfilment in Christ. ### Latin text Magnum est in his, quae sub patriarchis gesta sunt, ita rerum effectum contineri, ut nihil sibi in his, quae postea in domino expleta sunt, nec loco nec tempore nec ratione dissideat. in eo enim abso- ### English translation (Claude) It is a great thing that, in what was done under the patriarchs, the effect of events is so contained that nothing in them disagrees, in place, time, or reasoning, with what was afterwards fulfilled in the Lord. For in this ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.32.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.32.1 (CSEL 65:24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-32-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.32.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-32-2 - Source: CSEL 65:24–25 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The Old Testament events are real history and at the same time images of God's later work. ### Latin text lutae ueritatis speciem imitatio praemissa consequitur et tamquam imago eius formae, cuius est aemula, comparatur. gesta namque sibi ipsa quidem ueritas est — secundum enim corporales efficientias agebatur —, sed ipsa illa humanorum actuum ueritas diuinae erat operationis imitatio et hoc ad ueram spei nostrae ac fidei eruditionem ita fiebat, cum nihil in dei rebus repperiretur, quod non tamquam praemeditatum antea in ipsis hominum et aetatibus et moribus et effectibus cerneretur. ### English translation (Claude) the imitation sent ahead attains the figure of the complete truth, and is compared as the image of the form it imitates. For the deeds were indeed truth in themselves (for they were done according to bodily workings), but that very truth of human acts was an imitation of the divine working; and this was done so for the true instruction of our hope and faith, since nothing would be found in the things of God which had not been seen beforehand, as if premeditated, in the very ages, characters, and deeds of men. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.32.2 (CSEL 65:24–25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-32-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.32.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-32-3 - Source: CSEL 65:25 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The pattern continues after the exodus. ### Latin text quamquam enim omni superiore sermone ostensum sit usque ad egressum populi ex Egypto Moysi gesta cum gestis aut in domino aut per dominum conuenire, tamen etiam nunc corporeae ueritati imitatio spiritalis adnectitur. ### English translation (Claude) For although it has been shown in all the preceding discourse that, up to the people's going out of Egypt, the deeds of Moses agree with deeds either in the Lord or through the Lord, yet even now a spiritual imitation is joined to bodily truth. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.32.3 (CSEL 65:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-32-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.33.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-33-1 - Source: CSEL 65:25 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: At Marah the bitter water is made sweet by wood. ### Latin text In deserto enim populus sitiit, aqua amara est, murmur in ducem est, lignum ostenditur tinctuque eius aqua dulcis efficitur et in eo et iustificatio et iudicia et temptatio decernitur. ### English translation (Claude) For in the desert the people thirsted; the water is bitter; there is murmuring against the leader; wood is shown, and by its dipping the water is made sweet; and in it justification, judgments, and testing are decreed. ### Scripture references - Exod 15:23: allusion, high confidence - Exod 15:24: allusion, high confidence - Exod 15:25: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Exod 15:22–25. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.33.1 (CSEL 65:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-33-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.33.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-33-2 - Source: CSEL 65:25 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: From Marah the people come to Elim with its springs and palms. ### Latin text atque exinde ad duodecim fontes aquarum et septuaginta arbores palmarum uenitur et apud aquas considitur. auertant licet mentes studia obnitentium et infidelium error inoboedientiae obice sensum intellegentiae suae obseret, non tamen tanti operis poterunt ignorare uirtutem. ### English translation (Claude) And from there they come to twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and settle by the waters. Though the zeal of opponents may turn minds away, and the error of unbelievers may bar the sense of their understanding with the obstacle of disobedience, yet they will not be able to ignore the power of so great a work. ### Scripture references - Exod 15:27: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Exod 15:27. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.33.2 (CSEL 65:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-33-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.33.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-33-3 - Source: CSEL 65:25 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The wood itself had no power to sweeten the water. ### Latin text quid enim in se momenti lignum habebat quamue efficaciam in se materies inanimis continebat, ut amaritudinem aboleret, ut dulcedinem gigneret, ut naturam et inueheret et auferret, dum id, quod triste abhorrebat, dulce sentitur? ### English translation (Claude) For what weight did the wood have in itself, or what efficacy did inanimate matter contain, that it should do away with bitterness, produce sweetness, both bring in and take away a nature, so that what was abhorred as harsh is perceived as sweet? ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.33.3 (CSEL 65:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-33-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.33.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-33-4 - Source: CSEL 65:25 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: God did not need the wood to change the water. ### Latin text et quia in eo, quod ad praesens gerebatur, efficientia est uirtutis dei in aliud naturam ex altero transferentis, tamen non eguisse ligni officio existimandus est, ut demutationem aquis non nisi eius intercessione praestaret. ### English translation (Claude) And though in what was done at the time there is the working of the power of God transferring a nature from one thing to another, yet he must not be thought to have needed the service of the wood, as though he could not give the change to the waters except by its intervention. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.33.4 (CSEL 65:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-33-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.34.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-34-1 - Source: CSEL 65:25 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Waters in Scripture can signify peoples. ### Latin text Uerum quia omnia deus poterat, arcanum operationis suae in tempora reseruatum molitur in praesens. populo namque in deserto moranti aqua inutilis erat et quidem populos pro aquis saepe nuncupatos repperimus, cum dicitur: uiderunt te aquae, deus, et timuerunt, et rursum: omnes aquae, plaudite manibus. ### English translation (Claude) But because God could do all things, he works in the present a secret of his operation reserved for the times to come. For to the people staying in the desert the water was useless; and indeed we find peoples often named for waters, when it is said: "The waters saw you, O God, and were afraid"; and again: "All waters, clap your hands." ### Scripture references - Ps 77:16 (76:17 Vulg.): quotation, high confidence - Ps 98:8 (97:8 Vulg.): quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Quotations: Ps 77:16 (76:17 Vulg.); Ps 98:8 (97:8 Vulg.), in Hilary's Latin ("waters" where the Vulgate has "rivers" in the second). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.34.1 (CSEL 65:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-34-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.34.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-34-2 - Source: CSEL 65:25–26 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The bitter people, like the water, is made sweet by the mystery of the wood. ### Latin text ergo siue ipsae per naturam suam aquae amarae siue omnis populus in deserto manens et nondum promissionis terram adepturus per murmurationem, quae ex contumacia gignitur, amarus ligni sacramento dulcis efficitur. et non solum ab eo, quod erat, deficit, sed in melius et ultra usum necessarium mutatur; non enim solum amara esse desiit, ### English translation (Claude) So whether the waters themselves were bitter by nature, or the whole people, staying in the desert and not yet about to obtain the land of promise, was bitter through the murmuring born of stubbornness, it is made sweet by the mystery of the wood. And it not only ceases to be what it was, but is changed into something better and beyond necessary use; for it not only ceased to be bitter, ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.34.3. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.34.2 (CSEL 65:25–26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-34-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.34.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-34-3 - Source: CSEL 65:26 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The wood prefigures the cross, which sweetens the peoples. ### Latin text sed dulcis est reddita. lignum ergo et in praesentem aquam operatur et in populis sub aquae nomine nuncupatis sacramento uirtutis suae utile est. ### English translation (Claude) but was made sweet. The wood, then, both works on the present water and, by the mystery of its power, is useful for the peoples named under the name of water. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.34.3 (CSEL 65:26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-34-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.35.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-35-1 - Source: CSEL 65:26 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Deuteronomy's "your life hanging" and Jeremiah's "wood in his bread" point to the cross. ### Latin text In hoc ligno apud eundem Moysen uita omnium pendet, cum dicit: uidebitis uitam uestram pendentem in conspectu oculorum uestrorum nocte et die et timebitis et non credetis uitae uestrae. hoc in panem apud Hieremiam inicitur ita: super me cogitauerunt cogitationem dicentes: ### English translation (Claude) On this wood, in the same Moses, the life of all hangs, when he says: "You will see your life hanging before your eyes night and day, and you will fear and will not believe in your life." This wood is put into bread in Jeremiah thus: "They devised a plan against me, saying: ### Scripture references - Deut 28:66: quotation, high confidence - Jer 11:19: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotations: Deut 28:66 (Greek/Latin form); Jer 11:19 (continued in 1.35.2). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.35.1 (CSEL 65:26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-35-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.35.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-35-2 - Source: CSEL 65:26 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The wood of Moses' rod works all the wonders of the exodus. ### Latin text uellite, iniciamus lignum in panem eius. ex hac materie uirga est magos uincens, Pharaonem terrens, Aegyptum conterens. mare diuidens, pelagum refundens, fontem eliciens, amaritudinem adimens, dulcedinem tribuens; huius enim sacramento mitificantur ### English translation (Claude) Come, let us put wood into his bread." From this material is the rod that conquers the magicians, terrifies Pharaoh, crushes Egypt, divides the sea, pours back the deep, draws out a spring, removes bitterness, gives sweetness; for by its mystery are softened ### Scripture references - Jer 11:19: quotation, high confidence - Exod 7:12: allusion, medium confidence - Exod 14:16: allusion, high confidence - Exod 17:6: allusion, high confidence - Exod 15:25: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Jer 11:19 (Greek/Latin form). Allusions: Exod 7:12; 14:16, 26; 17:6; 15:25. The sentence continues in 1.35.3. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.35.2 (CSEL 65:26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-35-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.35.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-35-3 - Source: CSEL 65:26 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: "There" God gave justification, judgments, and testing, which refers to the deed, not the place. ### Latin text infidelium corda et ex peccatorum atque impietatis amaritudine in fidei dulcedinem transferuntur. ac ne non omnia sacramenti latentis effectibus conuenirent illis, quae tunc gerebantur, scriptura subiecit dicens: ibi posuit deus iustificationes et iudicia et ibi temptauit eum. ibi cum dicitur, non loci significatio est, sed facti. non enim in loco illo ullas dispositiones iustificationum et iudiciorum et temptationum extare inuenimus. ### English translation (Claude) the hearts of unbelievers and transferred from the bitterness of sins and impiety into the sweetness of faith. And lest all things should not agree, in the effects of the hidden mystery, with those that were then done, Scripture added, saying: "There God set justifications and judgments, and there he tested him." When "there" is said, it is a meaning not of place but of deed. For we do not find any arrangements of justifications, judgments, and testings existing in that place. ### Scripture references - Exod 15:25: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Exod 15:25. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.35.3 (CSEL 65:26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-35-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.36.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-36-1 - Source: CSEL 65:26 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The cross contains justification, judgment, and testing. ### Latin text Contra uero in ligni sacramento, in quo dominus pependit, in quo secum omnia, quae humani generis saluti aduersabantur, adfixit, et iustificatio est, quia iustus ex fide est, et iudicia sunt, quia, qui non credit, iam iudicatus est, et temptatio est, quia per scandalum crucis salus est; ### English translation (Claude) But on the contrary, in the mystery of the wood on which the Lord hung, to which he fastened with himself all that opposed the salvation of the human race, there is both justification, because the just is from faith; and judgments, because he who does not believe is already judged; and testing, because through the scandal of the cross is salvation; ### Scripture references - Col 2:14: allusion, high confidence - Rom 1:17: allusion, high confidence - John 3:18: allusion, high confidence - Gal 5:11: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Col 2:14; Rom 1:17; John 3:18; Gal 5:11. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.36.1 (CSEL 65:26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-36-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.36.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-36-2 - Source: CSEL 65:26–27 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Elim's twelve springs and seventy palms signify the apostles and the seventy disciples; the people settle by the waters, the enduring apostles. ### Latin text crux enim pereuntibus stultitia, uirtus autem dei in salutem credentibus. itaque cum opprobrium crucis temptatio est fidei, cum infidelitas causa iudicii, cum fides iustificationis est merces, merito sacramento ligni aquam ex amaritudine in dulcedinem transferentis et iustificatio et iudicia et temptatio continetur. Et uenerunt in Elym et erant ibi duodecim fontes aquarum et septuaginta arbores palmarum. consederunt autem ibi ad aquas. consummatur ergo in rebus gerendis dispositio spiritalis; nam ex Merra, loco amaritudinis, in Elym, ubi XII fontes aquarum et septuaginta arbores palmarum erant, uenitur. post cognitionem sacramenti ligni, apostolicae uidelicet euangelicae praedicationis, sedes expetitur septuaginta praedicatoribus pro tempore inumbrantibus et duodecim apostolis in aeternum fluentibus et, quia septuaginta praedicatores euangelii electi infideles postea reperti sunt, cum tamen fructum fidei subiectis sibi immundis spiritibus rettulissent, apostolis in fidei praedicatione durantibus, facta licet septuaginta arborum cum duodecim fontibus mentione, secundum tamen scripturae fidem in sola aquarum sede requiescitur. ### English translation (Claude) for the cross is foolishness to those who perish, but the power of God for salvation to those who believe. So, since the reproach of the cross is the testing of faith, since unbelief is the cause of judgment, since faith is the reward of justification, rightly in the mystery of the wood that changes water from bitterness into sweetness are contained justification, judgments, and testing. [37.] "And they came to Elim, and there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees there; and they settled there by the waters." The spiritual arrangement is completed in the events done; for from Marah, the place of bitterness, they come to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. After knowledge of the mystery of the wood, that is, of the apostolic and gospel preaching, a resting place is sought, with the seventy preachers giving shade for a time and the twelve apostles flowing for ever; and because the seventy preachers of the Gospel who were chosen were afterwards found unbelieving, though they had brought back the fruit of faith when the unclean spirits were subjected to them, while the apostles persevered in preaching the faith, therefore, though mention is made of the seventy trees with the twelve springs, yet according to the faithfulness of Scripture the rest is taken in the seat of the waters alone. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 1:18: quotation, high confidence - Exod 15:27: quotation, high confidence - Luke 10:17: allusion, high confidence - John 6:66: allusion, low confidence ### Translation notes - The edition's section 37 begins in the middle of this staged section; its number and a page number leaked into the text are removed, and the division is marked [37.]. - Hilary takes the seventy who went back (John 6:66) to be the seventy of Luke 10 (his own identification). - Quotations and allusions: 1 Cor 1:18; Exod 15:27; Luke 10:1, 17; John 6:66. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.36.2 (CSEL 65:26–27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-36-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.38.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-38-1 - Source: CSEL 65:27 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The quails and the manna are introduced. ### Latin text Iam uero in coturnicum carnibus et mannae cibo quanta et quam absoluta rei spiritalis est ratio! populus, qui ex Egypto fuerat eductus, aduersus duces murmurat; carnes, quibus in Egypto uti solebat, desiderat. grex coturnicum uespere aduolans castra operit; earum carnibus populus alitur. matutino manna inuenitur. ### English translation (Claude) Now, in the flesh of the quails and the food of manna, how great and how complete is the meaning of a spiritual reality! The people, who had been led out of Egypt, murmur against their leaders; they long for the meat they used to eat in Egypt. A flock of quails flies in at evening and covers the camp; the people are fed with their flesh. In the morning manna is found. ### Scripture references - Exod 16:2: allusion, high confidence - Exod 16:3: allusion, high confidence - Exod 16:13: allusion, high confidence - Exod 16:14: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Exod 16:2–3, 13–14. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.38.1 (CSEL 65:27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-38-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.38.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-38-2 - Source: CSEL 65:27 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Each receives the same measure of manna; excess breeds worms, and what is left melts. ### Latin text sine discrimine aetatis aut sexus unicuique idem mensurae modus decernitur: plus colligens non abundat, minus recondens non eget. in his, quae ultra necessitatem erant, uermis ecferbuit. et quod de manna in campo relecta erat reliquum, sole incalescente contabuit. ### English translation (Claude) Without distinction of age or sex, the same measure is set for each: he who gathers more has nothing over, he who stores less does not lack. In what was beyond need, worms seethed; and what remained of the manna left in the field melted when the sun grew hot. ### Scripture references - Exod 16:18: allusion, high confidence - Exod 16:20: allusion, high confidence - Exod 16:21: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Exod 16:16–21. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.38.2 (CSEL 65:27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-38-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.38.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-38-3 - Source: CSEL 65:27 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The double portion, the sabbath, and the omer kept in a golden jar. ### Latin text die sexto duplum reconditur nec corrumpitur, die septimo manna abstinetur, quibusdam tamen in cassum expectantibus. ad postremum gomor singulis destinatum uase aureo reconditum futurae generationi in testimonium reseruatur. ### English translation (Claude) On the sixth day a double portion is stored and does not spoil; on the seventh day the manna is withheld, though some wait for it in vain. Finally, an omer assigned to each is stored in a golden vessel and kept as a testimony for the generation to come. ### Scripture references - Exod 16:22: allusion, high confidence - Exod 16:27: allusion, high confidence - Exod 16:33: allusion, high confidence - Heb 9:4: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Exod 16:22–27, 33; Heb 9:4. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.38.3 (CSEL 65:27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-38-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.39.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-39-1 - Source: CSEL 65:27–28 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The manna was given to test obedience. ### Latin text Atque etiam illud contuendum est, quod manna in temptationem datur: per eius obseruantiam unusquisque, an praeceptis dei sit idoneus, probaturus. ita enim scriptum est: dixit dominus ad Moysen: ecce ego pluam uobis panes de caelo et exiet populus et colliget unius ### English translation (Claude) And this too must be observed, that manna is given for testing, so that each one, by keeping its rules, may be proved whether he is fit for God's commandments. For it is written thus: "The Lord said to Moses: Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion ### Scripture references - Exod 16:4: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Exod 16:4 (continued in 1.39.2). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.39.1 (CSEL 65:27–28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-39-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.39.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-39-2 - Source: CSEL 65:28 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: God tests the people by the manna; flesh in the evening, bread in the morning. ### Latin text diei in diem, ut temptem eos, si ingredietur in legem meam an non. de carnibus uero ita dictum est: ad uesperam editis carnem et mane replemini ### English translation (Claude) day by day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not." But of the meat it is said thus: "In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled ### Scripture references - Exod 16:4: quotation, high confidence - Exod 16:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotations: Exod 16:4, 12 (continued in 1.39.3). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.39.2 (CSEL 65:28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-39-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.39.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-39-3 - Source: CSEL 65:28 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The evening quails signify the people's clinging to worldly desire until the end of the age. ### Latin text pane. comestio ad uesperum in carne, expletio autem mane significatur in manna. ergo quod ad carnem pertinet, illud est, quod populus in deserto manens desiderio consuetudinis detinetur; nam carnes Aegypti desiderat. assumit ad uesperum, infidelis scilicet deo et promissorum eius impatiens usque ad consumma- ### English translation (Claude) with bread." Eating in the evening is signified in the flesh, but filling in the morning in the manna. What pertains to the flesh, then, is that the people remaining in the desert is held by the desire of habit; for it longs for the meat of Egypt. It takes it in the evening, that is, unfaithful to God and impatient of his promises until the consummation ### Scripture references - Exod 16:12: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 1.39.4. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.39.3 (CSEL 65:28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-39-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.39.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-39-4 - Source: CSEL 65:28 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The quails were given once as a figure; the manna tests worthiness for the true bread from heaven. ### Latin text tionem saeculi, quae significatur in uespere, desideriis mundi, qui sub Aegypto frequenter significatus sit. denique semel tantum hanc carnem populus habuit, ut data non ad usum necessarium, sed ad praefigurationis significantiam doceretur. in manna uero temptatio est; temptatur enim per eam populus, utrum oboediens deo futurus sit, id est utrum uerum de caelo panem digni erunt sumere, et temptationis huius ratio de consequentibus expetenda est. ### English translation (Claude) of the age, which is signified by evening, with the desires of the world, which is often signified under Egypt. Finally, the people had this flesh only once, so that it might be taught that it was given not for necessary use but for the meaning of prefiguration. But in the manna there is testing; for by it the people is tested whether it will be obedient to God, that is, whether they will be worthy to take the true bread from heaven; and the reason of this testing must be sought from what follows. ### Scripture references - John 6:32: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: John 6:32. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.39.4 (CSEL 65:28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-39-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.40.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-40-1 - Source: CSEL 65:28 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The equal measure of manna signifies the heavenly food, undivided in power, given equally to all. ### Latin text Mane inuenitur; hoc enim in resurrectione domini caelestis cibi tempus est. idem uniuersae aetati et sexui praestituitur; secundum naturam humanam contrarium — quando enim tantundem cibi paruolo et uiro necessarium est? —, sed secundum spiritalem praeformationem aptissimum est aequaliter uniuersis caelesti cibo impertiendo, ad uirtutem partibus indiscreto — sacramentum enim scientibus loquimur — non abundante quoquam de maioribus neque ### English translation (Claude) It is found in the morning; for this, in the Lord's resurrection, is the time of the heavenly food. The same measure is fixed for every age and sex. According to human nature this is contrary (for when does a little child need as much food as a man?), but according to the spiritual prefiguration it is most fitting, since the heavenly food is imparted equally to all, undivided in power by its portions (for we speak the mystery to those who know), no one having more from the larger portions nor ### Scripture references - Exod 16:18: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "We speak the mystery to those who know" alludes to the Eucharist, discussed reservedly. The sentence continues in 1.40.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.40.1 (CSEL 65:28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-40-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.40.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-40-2 - Source: CSEL 65:28–29 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Manna gathered beyond measure signifies teaching beyond the heavenly gift, corrupted and destroyed at Christ's judgment. ### Latin text indigente de minimis, aequaliter scilicet omnibus ex eo, quod discretum partibus sumebatur, expletis. in his autem, quae collecta ultra mensuram sunt et in mane exuberauerunt, quod et uermis et putor est, non ambiguum est eis, qui ultra caeleste munus et doctrinam spiritalem non necessaria congregauerint, esse ea et sensu faetida, id est a ueritate corrupta, et daemoniorum uitiis ecferuescentia, scilicet uermibus inquieta, sole incalescente, id est Christo, qui sol iustitiae est, ad iudicium reuertente quondam soluenda de liquido. ### English translation (Claude) lacking from the smallest, all being equally filled from what was taken divided into portions. But in what was gathered beyond measure and overflowed into the morning, which is worms and stench, there is no doubt that for those who have gathered unnecessary things beyond the heavenly gift and the spiritual teaching, these things are both foul in sense, that is, corrupted from the truth, and seething with the vices of demons, that is, restless with worms; and, when the sun grows hot, that is, when Christ, who is the sun of righteousness, returns to judgment, they will one day be dissolved into liquid. ### Scripture references - Exod 16:20: allusion, high confidence - Exod 16:21: allusion, high confidence - Mal 4:2 (3:20 Vulg.): allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Sun of righteousness: Mal 4:2 (3:20 Vulg.). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.40.2 (CSEL 65:28–29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-40-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.41.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-41-1 - Source: CSEL 65:29 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The double portion on the sixth day signifies preparing good works for the eternal rest. ### Latin text In duplici autem die sexto ob septimi requiem mannae congregatione spiritalium operum accumulata praeparatio admonetur praeparatis bonis tum, cum requies adsit, usuris. denique quod de sexto die superest, non corrumpitur. cum, quod extra mensuram ceterorum dierum sit, faeteat. ### English translation (Claude) In the double gathering of manna on the sixth day for the rest of the seventh, we are admonished to a heaped-up preparation of spiritual works, the good things prepared to be used when rest is present. Finally, what remains from the sixth day does not spoil, whereas what is beyond the measure of the other days stinks. ### Scripture references - Exod 16:22: allusion, high confidence - Exod 16:24: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Exod 16:22–24. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.41.1 (CSEL 65:29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-41-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.41.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-41-2 - Source: CSEL 65:29 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The sixth day signifies the sixth millennium, in which we must prepare for the coming rest. ### Latin text ita et his, quae extra praescriptum sint, praesumpta corruptio est. in hoc igitur aetatis nostrae tempore operandum est, quo uti possimus in requie. tempus autem huius sexti millesimi anni est, quod sub numero diei sexti significatur propheta dicente: quia anni mille in conspectu domini tamquam dies una. ### English translation (Claude) so too, for those things that are beyond what is prescribed, corruption is presumed. In this time of our age, then, we must work, so that we may have something to use in the rest. And the time is that of this sixth millennium, which is signified under the number of the sixth day, as the prophet says: "For a thousand years in the sight of the Lord are as one day." ### Scripture references - Ps 90:4 (89:4 Vulg.): quotation, high confidence - 2 Pet 3:8: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Ps 90:4 (89:4 Vulg.); cf. 2 Pet 3:8. Hilary follows the common early scheme of a world-week of six thousand years. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.41.2 (CSEL 65:29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-41-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.41.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-41-3 - Source: CSEL 65:29 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: In the eternal rest we will have only what we prepared beforehand. ### Latin text alitur ergo populus die septimo, id est requie domini, cibis pridie conditis et his, quae praeparauerat, utitur non reperturus septimo, quo ali possit, multis in campum prodeuntibus et nihil repperientibus, conclusis scilicet temporibus saeculorum nihil aliud in usum requiei nostrae, quam quod ante a nobis sit praeparatum et conditum, reperturi. ### English translation (Claude) So the people is fed on the seventh day, that is, in the Lord's rest, with food stored the day before, and uses what it had prepared, not about to find on the seventh day anything to be fed with, many going out into the field and finding nothing; that is, when the times of the ages are closed, we shall find nothing else for the use of our rest than what we have prepared and stored beforehand. ### Scripture references - Exod 16:27: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Exod 16:27. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.41.3 (CSEL 65:29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-41-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.42.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-42-1 - Source: CSEL 65:29 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The jar of manna kept for future generations no longer exists. ### Latin text Reseruari deinde uase aureo in progenies futuras gomor mannae in conspectu domini iubetur. sed ubi tandem hoc uas est et ubi est manna, quae condita est post frequentes populi captiuitates? post gemina excidia urbis et templi non extat, quod repositum est. et quid? ### English translation (Claude) Then an omer of manna is ordered to be kept in a golden vessel before the Lord for the generations to come. But where at last is this vessel, and where is the manna that was stored, after the people's frequent captivities? After the twofold destruction of the city and the temple, what was laid up does not exist. And what then? ### Scripture references - Exod 16:33: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Exod 16:33. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.42.1 (CSEL 65:29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-42-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 1.42.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-42-2 - Source: CSEL 65:29–30 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The golden jar of manna prefigures Christ's body and the faithful keeping of the spiritual food. ### Latin text ergo ignorasse deum manna non posse in progeniem reseruari existimamus? non utique ipsa futura hominum consilia prouidens ignorasse credendus est, sed per speciem aurei uasis et mannae in conspectu dei conditae et in futuras generationes reseruatae pretiosum eum et aeternum futurum, qui acceptam corpore suo tamquam uase aureo mannam reseruaturus esset, ostendit deo suscepti huius a nobis spiritalis cibi incontaminatam custodiam contuente. ### English translation (Claude) Do we think, then, that God did not know that the manna could not be kept for posterity? Certainly he, who foresees even the future plans of men, must not be believed not to have known; but by the figure of the golden vessel and of the manna stored before God and kept for future generations he showed that he would be precious and eternal who would keep in his body, as in a golden vessel, the manna he received, God watching over the undefiled keeping of this spiritual food received by us. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 1.42.2 (CSEL 65:29–30; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-1-42-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.1.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-1-1 - Source: CSEL 65:30 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The command to Hosea to take a wife of fornication is introduced. ### Latin text DE OSEE. Et in libro prophetarum ad Osee et alius domini sermo legitur: uade, accipe tibi uxorem fornicationis, ### English translation (Claude) On Hosea. And in the book of the prophets another word of the Lord to Hosea is read: "Go, take for yourself a wife of fornication, ### Scripture references - Hos 1:2: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The second book of the treatise begins here. "On Hosea" is the edition's heading. Quotation: Hos 1:2 (continued in 2.1.2). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.1.1 (CSEL 65:30; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-1-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.1.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-1-2 - Source: CSEL 65:30 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Hilary quotes Hosea's promise of a new covenant and betrothal. ### Latin text quoniam fornicando fornicabitur terra a domino. et post multa, quae media sunt plena maledictionis in eam, et post partum Israhel et Non-dilectae et Non-populi-mei haec cognoscuntur: disponam autem illis ea die testamentum cum bestiis agri et uolatilibus caeli et serpentibus terrae et arcum et frameam et bellum conteram de terra et conlocabo te in spe (et sponsabo te mihi) ipsi in aeternum. sponsabo te mihi in iustitia et fide et cognosces dominum. et erit in illa die, dicit dominus: exaudiam caelo et caelum (exaudiet) terrae et terra exaudiet frumentum et uinum et oleum eaque audiet Israhel. et seminabo eam mihi super terram et diligam Non-dilectam et dicam Non-populo-meo: ### English translation (Claude) for the land will commit fornication away from the Lord." And after many things in between, full of cursing against her, and after the birth of Israel and of Not-loved and of Not-my-people, these things are found: "And I will make a covenant for them on that day with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky and the serpents of the earth, and I will break bow and sword and war from the earth, and I will settle you in hope, (and I will betroth you to myself) for ever. I will betroth you to myself in righteousness and faith, and you shall know the Lord. And it shall be on that day, says the Lord: I will hear the heaven, and the heaven (will hear) the earth, and the earth will hear the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will hear Israel. And I will sow her for myself upon the earth, and I will love Not-loved, and I will say to Not-my-people: ### Scripture references - Hos 1:2: quotation, high confidence - Hos 1:4: allusion, medium confidence - Hos 1:6: allusion, high confidence - Hos 1:9: allusion, high confidence - Hos 2:18: quotation, high confidence - Hos 2:19: quotation, high confidence - Hos 2:20: quotation, high confidence - Hos 2:21: quotation, high confidence - Hos 2:22: quotation, high confidence - Hos 2:23: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Hilary calls the first child "Israel" (Jezreel in the Hebrew; Hos 1:4). Words in round brackets are the editor's supplements; translated. - Quotations: Hos 1:2; 2:18–23 (Greek/Latin form). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.1.2 (CSEL 65:30; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-1-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.1.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-1-3 - Source: CSEL 65:30–31 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Paul applies Hosea's prophecy to the church of Jews and Gentiles. ### Latin text Populus meus tu. et quantum arbitror, nullus cunctandi locus est, quin praefiguratam hic ecclesiae praefigurationem intellegamus, cum quando apostolus id, quod superius de huius fornicariae filiis ad Osee erat dictum, referendum esse ad fidelium populum existimauerit dicens ad Corinthios: uocauit nos non tantum ex Iudeis, sed etiam ex nationibus, sicut et in Osee dicit: uocabo eum, qui Nonpopulus-meus. Populus - meus et Non-dilectam Dilectam. et erit in loco, quocumque uocabuntur Non-populus-meus, illic uocabuntur filii dei uiui. ### English translation (Claude) You are my people." And, as I think, there is no room for hesitation in understanding here a prefiguration of the church, since the Apostle judged that what was said above to Hosea about the children of this harlot must be referred to the people of believers, saying to the Corinthians: "He called us not only from the Jews but also from the nations, as he says also in Hosea: I will call Not-my-people My-people, and Not-loved Loved; and it shall be that in the place where they were called Not-my-people, there they shall be called sons of the living God." ### Scripture references - Hos 2:23: quotation, high confidence - Rom 9:24: quotation, high confidence - Rom 9:25: quotation, high confidence - Rom 9:26: quotation, high confidence - Hos 1:10: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is from Rom 9:24–26, which Hilary attributes to the letter to the Corinthians (his slip). - Quotation: Hos 2:23; Rom 9:24–26 (Hos 2:23; 1:10). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.1.3 (CSEL 65:30–31; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-1-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.2.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-2-1 - Source: CSEL 65:31 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Hosea's marriage and children are realized spiritually by God. ### Latin text Quod igitur in propheta corporaliter gerebatur, id est coniugium atque generatio — nam ex fornicaria tres geniti sunt, quorum primus ex praecepto dei Israhel nuncupatus est, sequens nata Dilecta dicta est, tertius Non-populus-meus uocitatus —, id per deum ad spiritalem intellegentiam et confirmatur et geritur. ### English translation (Claude) What was done bodily in the prophet, then, that is, marriage and begetting (for from the harlot three were born, of whom the first, by God's command, was named Israel, the next, a daughter, was called Loved, the third was called Not-my-people), is confirmed and carried out by God for spiritual understanding. ### Scripture references - Hos 1:3: allusion, high confidence - Hos 1:6: allusion, high confidence - Hos 1:9: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Hilary names the second child "Loved" (Dilecta) where Hosea has "Not-loved" (Lo-ruhamah); probably a slip or a copying error (uncertain). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.2.1 (CSEL 65:31; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-2-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.2.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-2-2 - Source: CSEL 65:31 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The beasts, birds, and serpents of Hosea's covenant signify kinds of sinful men tamed by Christ's peace. ### Latin text hanc enim fornicariam iunctam prophetae sponsam sibi dominus in iustitia et fide effecit testamentum disponens cum bestiis agri, id est cum hominibus iure saeculi inmanibus, et cum uolatilibus caeli, scilicet sub inanitate mundi huius et uacuitate uiuentibus, et cum serpentibus terrae, nempe uenenato animo atque fallente in corpore constitutis, arcum in serpentibus, frameam in uolatilibus, bellum contriturus in bestiis, ex genere telorum et animantium nominibus diuersos humanae mentis instinctus edomiturus in pace, bella bestiarum, iacula uolantium, uenena serpentium. ### English translation (Claude) For this harlot joined to the prophet the Lord made his bride in righteousness and faith, making a covenant with the beasts of the field, that is, with men savage by the law of the world; and with the birds of the sky, that is, those living under the emptiness and vanity of this world; and with the serpents of the earth, namely those set in the body with a poisoned and deceitful mind; about to break the bow in the serpents, the sword in the birds, war in the beasts; by the kinds of weapons and the names of animals, about to tame in peace the various impulses of the human mind: the wars of beasts, the darts of flying things, the poisons of serpents. ### Scripture references - Hos 2:18: allusion, high confidence - Hos 2:19: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Hos 2:18–19. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.2.2 (CSEL 65:31; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-2-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.3.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-3-1 - Source: CSEL 65:31 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Heaven hearing heaven and earth hearing earth signify the divine and human natures in Christ and our future likeness to God. ### Latin text Exaudiens quoque caelo caelum et terrae terra significat in eo, qui audiat et qui audiatur, diuersitatem in numero, id ipsum tamen, quod audiat audiaturque, esse demonstrans, cum caelo caelum exaudiat et terrae terra, significatio uero et diuinitatis in caelo et corporalitatis in terra. et quia dominus ex deo homo natus est et nos ex homine sumus conformes deo futuri, idcirco caelo caelum et terrae audiet terra. ### English translation (Claude) In heaven hearing heaven and earth hearing earth he also signifies, in him who hears and in him who is heard, a difference in number, yet shows that what hears and is heard is the same, since heaven hears heaven and earth earth; the meaning being of divinity in heaven and of bodiliness in earth. And because the Lord was born man from God, and we, being from man, are to be conformed to God, therefore heaven will hear heaven and earth will hear earth. ### Scripture references - Hos 2:21: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Et" is the editor's supplement of the damaged manuscript; translated. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.3.1 (CSEL 65:31; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-3-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.3.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-3-2 - Source: CSEL 65:31–32 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Grain, wine, and oil cannot literally hear. ### Latin text in frumento uero et uino et oleo, quod audiet, cum utique his insen- ### English translation (Claude) But in the grain, wine, and oil which it will hear, though these insensible things ### Scripture references - Hos 2:22: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 2.3.3. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.3.2 (CSEL 65:31–32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-3-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.3.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-3-3 - Source: CSEL 65:32 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Grain, wine, and oil signify the sacraments; God makes the Gentiles his people. ### Latin text sibilibus sensus audientiae nullus sit, tamen sub sacramento unctionis et corporis se esse, qui in his sit auditurus, ostendit. per quae audiente Israhel desponsatam sibi in spem fornicariam seminauit praetermisso eo, qui nuncupatus est Israhel, ceteris honorem demutationis impertiens, ut, qui non populus suus erat, populus suus sit et, quae non erat dilecta, Dilecta sit. ### English translation (Claude) have no sense of hearing, yet he shows that it is he who will hear in them, under the sacrament of anointing and of the body. Through these, Israel hearing, he sowed the harlot betrothed to himself in hope, passing over the one who was named Israel and granting to the rest the honor of a change, so that he who was not his people should be his people, and she who was not loved should be Loved. ### Scripture references - Hos 2:23: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Sacrament of anointing and of the body" refers to chrism and the Eucharist (bread and wine). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.3.3 (CSEL 65:32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-3-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.4.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-4-1 - Source: CSEL 65:32 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Israel, chosen in Abraham, fell into sin and idolatry. ### Latin text Israhel namque in Abraham patre suo electus ex gentibus est, ut in Psalmis dictum est: domus Iacob de populo barbaro. sed peccatis immorans et uanis religionibus deditus ### English translation (Claude) For Israel was chosen from the nations in Abraham his father, as is said in the Psalms: "the house of Jacob from a barbarous people." But lingering in sins and given over to vain religions, ### Scripture references - Ps 114:1 (113:1 Vulg.): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Quotation: Ps 114:1 (113:1 Vulg.). The sentence continues in 2.4.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.4.1 (CSEL 65:32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-4-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.4.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-4-2 - Source: CSEL 65:32 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Israel loses its election; the harlot's later children, the Gentiles, are called sons of God. ### Latin text et promissis dei infidelis promissorum effectus capere non meruit et prior electus in dei populum honorem electionis amisit. tacetur enim de Israhel prius ex fornicaria edito et omnis de postea genitis dei sermo est reiectis antea et ab affectu ac proprietate summotis natis ad non diligendum, genitis ad non utendum. sed primum fornicaria in sponsam deo fidei et iustitiae electa; dehinc qui non dilecti, qui non sui, qui de fornicariae partu, hi uiuentis dei filii nuncupantur. ### English translation (Claude) and unfaithful to God's promises, it did not deserve to receive the effects of the promises, and, first chosen into God's people, it lost the honor of election. For nothing more is said of Israel, first born of the harlot, and God's whole word is about those born afterward, the earlier being rejected and removed from affection and ownership: born to be not loved, begotten to be not used. But first the harlot is chosen as a bride for God in faith and righteousness; then those not loved, those not his own, those born of the harlot, are called sons of the living God. ### Scripture references - Hos 1:10: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Hilary's reading of Israel as rejected is translated as written; it is his typological interpretation. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.4.2 (CSEL 65:32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-4-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.4.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-4-3 - Source: CSEL 65:32 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Hosea's marriage shows Gentile ignorance joined to prophetic teaching, producing children of God. ### Latin text et hic quidem dei sermo, quo propheta uxorem accipere fornicariam iubetur, idcirco commemorandus fuit, ut, quia praeformari omnia per gesta ueteris testamenti eaque in domino et per dominum gerenda esse docemur, hoc ipso, quod prophetae fornicaria iungitur, intellegeremus ostendi gentilem ignorantiam doctrinis prophetalibus copulari, ex quibus geniti ex non dilectis dilecti, ex non populo populus, ex fornicaria matre dei filii uocarentur. DE HIESU NAUE. ### English translation (Claude) And this word of God, by which the prophet is ordered to take a harlot as wife, had to be recalled for this reason: since we are taught that all things are prefigured through the deeds of the Old Testament and are to be done in the Lord and through the Lord, by this very fact, that a harlot is joined to the prophet, we should understand it shown that Gentile ignorance is joined to the prophetic teachings, from which those born from the not loved would be called loved, from not-a-people a people, from a harlot mother sons of God. On Joshua son of Nun. ### Scripture references - Hos 1:2: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Hiesu Naue" is Joshua son of Nun; the last words are the edition's heading. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.4.3 (CSEL 65:32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-4-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.5.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-5-1 - Source: CSEL 65:32–33 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Hosea's harlot bride justifies seeing the church prefigured in Rahab. ### Latin text Et hoc quidem quamuis utile fuerit ad cognoscendam spiritalium gestorum significantiam tractasse, tamen hac uel maxime causa hic locus commemoratus a nobis est, ut, quia futurus nobis de Raab sermo esset, per quem praeformari in ea ecclesiam ostenderemus, tuto comparationem hanc ecclesiae atque meretricis pro sensus nostri intellegentia poneremus, cum quando fornicaria prophetae iuncta ad ecclesiae praeformationem in spem aeternam iustitiae et fidei et cognitionis dei repperiretur esse desponsa. ### English translation (Claude) And though it was useful to have treated this for understanding the meaning of spiritual deeds, yet this passage was recalled by us chiefly for this reason: since we were going to speak of Rahab, in order to show that the church is prefigured in her, we might safely set down, according to our understanding, this comparison of the church and a prostitute, since the harlot joined to the prophet was found to be betrothed, for the prefiguring of the church, into the eternal hope of righteousness, faith, and knowledge of God. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.5.1 (CSEL 65:32–33; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-5-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.5.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-5-2 - Source: CSEL 65:33 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Moses gave Joshua the name Jesus, already prepared in heaven for the eternal leader. ### Latin text et in eo quidem, quod sub Hiesu omnia in ea gesta sunt, maxima uirtus est prophetiae. in Hiesu enim cognominato absoluta futuri sacramenti ratio monstrata est. namque post multum dei ad Moysen sermonem, cum dictum ei esset, ut omnia secundum speciem, quam in monte uidisset, faceret in terra, Hiesum, qui Auses antea uocitabatur, cognominauit ducem populo ad terram repromissionis pergenti futurum. ad speciem caelestis uisionis iussus Moyses uniuersa disponere illud duci futuro nomen adiecit, quod erat aeterno duci iam in caelestibus praeparatum. ### English translation (Claude) And in this, that everything concerning her was done under Joshua, lies the greatest power of the prophecy. For in the naming of Joshua the complete reasoning of the future mystery was shown. For after God's long speech to Moses, when he had been told to make everything on earth according to the pattern he had seen on the mountain, he named Joshua, who before was called Hoshea, to be the future leader of the people going to the land of promise. Ordered to arrange all things after the pattern of the heavenly vision, Moses added to the future leader that name which was already prepared in heaven for the eternal leader. ### Scripture references - Exod 25:40: allusion, high confidence - Num 13:16: allusion, high confidence - Heb 8:5: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Joshua and Jesus are the same name in Greek and Latin (Iesus). Hoshea (Latin Auses): Num 13:16. The heavenly pattern: Exod 25:40; Heb 8:5. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.5.2 (CSEL 65:33; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-5-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.6.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-6-1 - Source: CSEL 65:33 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Joshua led Israel into the promised land as Jesus leads the church into the inheritance. ### Latin text Nam ut hic synagogae princeps, ita ille ecclesiae. ut hic dux promissae terrae optinendae, ita ille dux terrae hereditandae, de qua dominus ait: beati mites, quoniam ipsi hereditabunt terram. ### English translation (Claude) For as this one was the leader of the synagogue, so that one is of the church. As this one was leader for obtaining the promised land, so that one is leader of the land to be inherited, of which the Lord says: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the land." ### Scripture references - Matt 5:5: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Hic" is the editor's supplement; translated. Quotation: Matt 5:5. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.6.1 (CSEL 65:33; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-6-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.6.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-6-2 - Source: CSEL 65:33 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Joshua's circumcision with stone knives and division of the Jordan prefigure Christ's spiritual circumcision and division of peoples. ### Latin text ut hic post Moysen, ita ille post legem. ut huic iterata cultello petrino circumcisio praecepta, ita a domino, qui et uerbum acutum est penetrans usque ad diuisionem animae et lapis angularis, circumcisio cordis spiritaliter innouata est. ut hic diuidens aquas, ita ille diuidens populos; ait enim: non ueni pacem mittere, sed diuisionem. ### English translation (Claude) As this one came after Moses, so that one after the law. As to this one a second circumcision with a stone knife was commanded, so by the Lord, who is both the sharp word piercing to the division of the soul and the cornerstone, the circumcision of the heart was spiritually renewed. As this one divided the waters, so that one divides peoples; for he says: "I have not come to bring peace but division." ### Scripture references - Josh 5:2: allusion, high confidence - Heb 4:12: allusion, high confidence - Eph 2:20: allusion, medium confidence - Rom 2:29: allusion, high confidence - Josh 3:16: allusion, high confidence - Matt 10:34: quotation, high confidence - Luke 12:51: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Josh 5:2; Heb 4:12; Eph 2:20; Rom 2:29; Josh 3:16; Matt 10:34 (Luke 12:51). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.6.2 (CSEL 65:33; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-6-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.6.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-6-3 - Source: CSEL 65:33–34 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Joshua's twelve stones prefigure the apostolic teaching drawn from the law and still found in it. ### Latin text ut hic lapides duodecim in testimonium aeternum et ex profundo in terram reserauit et ex terra in profundo collocauit, ita ille apostolicam doctrinam et ex synagoga protulit et in synagoga dereliquit etiam nunc ea, si uellet, usura, cum ad testimonium aeternum in duodecim lapidibus apostolica doctrina et prolata esset ex lege et tamen repperiretur in lege. ### English translation (Claude) As this one both brought out twelve stones from the depth onto the land for an eternal testimony and placed others from the land in the depth, so that one both brought forth the apostolic teaching from the synagogue and left it in the synagogue, which would use it even now if it wished; since, for an eternal testimony in the twelve stones, the apostolic teaching was both brought forth from the law and yet was found in the law. ### Scripture references - Josh 4:3: allusion, high confidence - Josh 4:9: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Josh 4:3, 9, 20. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.6.3 (CSEL 65:33–34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-6-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.7.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-7-1 - Source: CSEL 65:34 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The division of the Jordan is introduced. ### Latin text Diuisio autem ipsa aquarum quam euidens quamque absoluta est, cum pars integra et plena constiterit, altera arefacto ### English translation (Claude) How evident and how complete is the very division of the waters, when one part stood whole and full, and the other, its bed ### Scripture references - Josh 3:16: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 2.7.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.7.1 (CSEL 65:34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-7-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.7.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-7-2 - Source: CSEL 65:34 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The halted and flowing waters signify those who stop their sins at Christ's coming and those swept into the world's condemnation. ### Latin text alueo in mare omnis effluxerit media tamen arca domini cum sacerdotibus constituta! qua significatione intelligitur partem populi a cursu peccatorum et mortis suae in aduentu arcae dei, id est aduentu corporeo, destituram cetera in mare, hoc est in dampnationem saeculi huius et consortium, defluente. ### English translation (Claude) dried up, all flowed away into the sea, while the ark of the Lord with the priests was set in the middle! By this meaning it is understood that part of the people, at the coming of the ark of God, that is, at the bodily coming, will stand back from the course of its sins and of its death, while the rest flows down into the sea, that is, into the condemnation and fellowship of this world. ### Scripture references - Josh 3:16: allusion, high confidence - Josh 3:17: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Josh 3:16–17. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.7.2 (CSEL 65:34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-7-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.8.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-8-1 - Source: CSEL 65:34 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The story of Rahab is introduced. ### Latin text Sub hoc igitur Hiesu quae a Raab et in Raab gesta sunt, contuendum est. exploratores namque duo ad speculandam ### English translation (Claude) Under this Joshua, then, we must consider what was done by Rahab and in Rahab. For two spies, to spy out ### Scripture references - Josh 2:1: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 2.8.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.8.1 (CSEL 65:34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-8-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.8.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-8-2 - Source: CSEL 65:34 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Rahab hides the spies and confesses their God. ### Latin text terram et in Hiericho ciuitatem ad meretricis huius domum deuerterunt. hos suscipit et occultat; rege ab ea deditionem eorum postulante reuersos esse mentitur. deinde ipsis domi conditis ait scire se, quod omnia urbis eius ipsis dominus tradiderit deumque eorum esse susum in caelo et in terra deorsum. ### English translation (Claude) the land and, in Jericho, the city, turned aside to the house of this prostitute. She receives them and hides them; when the king demands that she hand them over, she lies that they have gone back. Then, with them hidden in the house, she says that she knows that the Lord has delivered everything of her city to them, and that their God is God in heaven above and on earth below. ### Scripture references - Josh 2:1: allusion, high confidence - Josh 2:4: allusion, high confidence - Josh 2:9: allusion, high confidence - Josh 2:11: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Josh 2:1–11. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.8.2 (CSEL 65:34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-8-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.8.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-8-3 - Source: CSEL 65:34 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The spies promise to spare Rahab's house, marked by the scarlet cord. ### Latin text ut se atque omnem domum suam tempore capiendae urbis conseruent, precatur. exploratores pollicentur, quicquid intra domum eius repertum esset, incolume mansurum, sibi ipsum (reum) futurum, quisque domo esset egressus; esse autem signum pen- ### English translation (Claude) She begs them to save her and her whole house when the city is taken. The spies promise that whatever was found within her house would remain unharmed, and that whoever went out of the house would be (guilty) for himself; and they fix as a sign a scarlet cord hanging ### Scripture references - Josh 2:12: allusion, high confidence - Josh 2:18: allusion, high confidence - Josh 2:19: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Reum" is the editor's supplement; translated. Allusions: Josh 2:12–19. The sentence continues in 2.8.4. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.8.3 (CSEL 65:34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-8-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.8.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-8-4 - Source: CSEL 65:34 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Jericho falls on the seventh day and Rahab's house is saved. ### Latin text dentis de fenestra restis coccineae constituunt remque omnem Hiesu nuntiant. ad urbem deinde acceditur. hanc sacerdotes cum arca domini sex diebus circumeunt, septimo autem die cum septies circumissent, tuba canente ciuitatis muri conciderunt et cunctis, qui in urbe erant, peremtis sola Raab ab Hiesu cum [cum] omni domo sua conseruatur. ### English translation (Claude) from the window; and they report everything to Joshua. Then the city is approached. The priests with the ark of the Lord go round it for six days, and on the seventh day, when they had gone round seven times, as the trumpet sounded the walls of the city fell; and when all who were in the city had been killed, Rahab alone with her whole house is saved by Joshua. ### Scripture references - Josh 2:21: allusion, high confidence - Josh 6:15: allusion, high confidence - Josh 6:20: allusion, high confidence - Josh 6:25: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The editor deletes a repeated "cum"; it is left out. Allusions: Josh 2:21–24; 6:3–25. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.8.4 (CSEL 65:34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-8-4). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.9.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-9-1 - Source: CSEL 65:34–35 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Rahab receiving the spies signifies the church receiving the law and prophets, which confess God and foretell his incarnation. ### Latin text Hic ordo rerum magnis spiritaliter gerendorum sacramentis conexus est. duos ab Hiesu missos terrae exploratores meretrix domi suscepit: legem et prophetiam ad explorandam hominum fidem missam peccatrix ecclesia recepit, per quam confitetur deus et in caelo susum et in terra deorsum. post spiritalem eius generationem natiuitatem contestatam corpoream didicit enim in his: post hoc in terris uisus est et inter hominum conuersatus est. ### English translation (Claude) This order of events is bound up with great mysteries to be carried out spiritually. The prostitute received in her house the two spies of the land sent by Joshua: the sinful church received the law and prophecy sent to spy out men's faith, through which God is confessed both in heaven above and on earth below. After his spiritual generation she learned the bodily birth to which they testified; for she learned in them: "After this he was seen on earth and lived among men." ### Scripture references - Josh 2:11: allusion, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Bar 3:38 (Baruch): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The clause before the quotation is corrupt in the manuscript; translated by sense. - Quotation: Bar 3:38 (Hilary cites it as prophecy; Baruch is outside the 66 books). ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.9.1 (CSEL 65:34–35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-9-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.9.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-9-2 - Source: CSEL 65:35 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The scarlet cord signifies Christ's royal robe and the blood of his passion. ### Latin text ab hisdem etiam signum salutis accepit in coccino, colore scilicet pro dignitate regio et pro corporatione sanguineo, quod utrumque in passione conuenit, cum et tali habitu dominus indutus est et sanguis ei fluxit e latere. ### English translation (Claude) From them she also received a sign of salvation in the scarlet, a color royal in dignity and blood-red in bodily meaning, both of which agree in the passion, since the Lord was clothed in such a garment, and blood flowed from his side. ### Scripture references - Matt 27:28: allusion, high confidence - John 19:34: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Matt 27:28; John 19:34. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.9.2 (CSEL 65:35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-9-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.9.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-9-3 - Source: CSEL 65:35 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The scarlet sign links to the Passover blood and the blood of the covenant; outside the house, as outside the church, is death. ### Latin text hoc coccinum et Manasses accepit in signo, hoc sanguine et consignatae in Aegypto domus tutae sunt et testamenti liber conspersus est et sanctificatus est populus. quisque autem de familia extra domum repertus esset, sibi reus est constitutus docens eos, qui extra ecclesiam fuissent, causam sibi mortis futuros. ### English translation (Claude) This scarlet Manasseh also received as a sign; by this blood the houses marked in Egypt were safe, and the book of the covenant was sprinkled, and the people sanctified. And whoever of the household was found outside the house was made guilty for himself, teaching that those who were outside the church would be the cause of their own death. ### Scripture references - Gen 38:28: allusion, low confidence - Exod 12:13: allusion, high confidence - Heb 9:19: allusion, high confidence - Exod 24:8: allusion, high confidence - Josh 2:19: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - "Manasses" is probably a slip for Zerah, son of Judah, who received a scarlet thread at birth (Gen 38:28–30) (uncertain). - Allusions: Exod 12:7, 13; Heb 9:19; Exod 24:8; Josh 2:19. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.9.3 (CSEL 65:35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-9-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.10.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-10-1 - Source: CSEL 65:35 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Jericho prefigures the world, which will fall at the last trumpet while the church is saved. ### Latin text Hiericho autem in huius mundi speciem posita sex diebus circuitur, septimo ad uocem tubae concidit et domus Raab per Hiesum integra reseruatur. ### English translation (Claude) Jericho, set as a figure of this world, is gone round for six days, falls on the seventh at the sound of the trumpet, and Rahab's house is preserved whole through Joshua. ### Scripture references - Josh 6:20: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.10.1 (CSEL 65:35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-10-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.10.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-10-2 - Source: CSEL 65:35 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: The six days signify six thousand years; the world will be dissolved in the seventh and the church preserved. ### Latin text sex milium enim annorum in sex diebus tempus ostenditur, quo circa mundum est oberratum et quodam generationum circulo circumcursatum, eodem ipso mundo ad tubae uocem in tempore septimo millesimo resoluendo, sola ecclesia per exploratorum susceptionem, per dei in corpore confessionem, per signum coccini per Hiesum decretum, cum omni sua familia reseruanda. ### English translation (Claude) For in the six days is shown the time of six thousand years, during which there has been wandering around the world and running round in a kind of circle of generations, this same world being dissolved at the sound of the trumpet in the seventh millennium; the church alone, by receiving the spies, by confessing God in the body, by the sign of the scarlet decreed through Jesus, to be preserved with all its household. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 15:52: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Thess 4:16: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: 1 Cor 15:52; 1 Thess 4:16. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.10.2 (CSEL 65:35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-10-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.11.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-11-1 - Source: CSEL 65:35–36 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Scripture must be read with discernment between literal and typological meaning, though nothing in it is empty. ### Latin text Admonuimus frequenter eam lectioni diuinarum scripturarum diligentiam adhiberi oportere, quae sollicito examine et iudicio non inani posset discernere, quando rerum gestarum commemoratio uel simpliciter esset intellegenda uel typice, ne intemperanter atque imperite utroque abusi utrumque inutile audientibus redderemus, si aut simplicium cognitio inani praefigurationum assertione corrumperetur aut uirtus praefigurationum sub simplicium opinione ignoraretur, quamquam ita se diuinae scripturae sermo habeat, ut, ut nihil illic inane nihilque extra causam alicuius necessitatis, nihil non sub discrimine consectandae a nobis intellegentiae editum repperiatur. ### English translation (Claude) We have often admonished that diligence must be applied to the reading of the divine Scriptures, a diligence that could discern, with careful examination and sound judgment, when the recalling of past deeds should be understood simply and when typologically; lest, using both immoderately and unskillfully, we should make both useless to hearers, if either the knowledge of simple things were corrupted by an empty assertion of prefigurations, or the power of prefigurations were unknown under the opinion of simple things; although the word of the divine Scriptures is such that nothing is found there empty, nothing without the cause of some necessity, nothing set down without the requirement that we pursue its understanding. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.11.1 (CSEL 65:35–36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-11-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.12.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-12-1 - Source: CSEL 65:36 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Even the simple narratives of Scripture teach about God's power, care, and justice. ### Latin text Namque dum creatio orbis refertur, deus cognoscitur in creando; dum Enoch translatus auditur posse effici; homo intellegitur aeternus; dum Loth perustis quinque ciuitatibus reseruaturus, curam deo esse innocentium discimus: dum contra edictum dei retro respiciens uxor eius in columnam salis demutatur, ad oboedientiam constitutionum dei exempli metu erudimur; dum peccata Amorreorum expectantur impleri, et misericordiam dei et iustitiam cognoscimus. cum et expectatione eius desinendi nobis a peccatis tempus prorogetur et in consummationem scelerum ultio dilata decernitur. ### English translation (Claude) For when the creation of the world is related, God is known in creating; when we hear that Enoch was translated, it is understood that man can be made eternal; when Lot is to be preserved after the five cities were burned up, we learn that God cares for the innocent; when his wife, looking back against God's command, is changed into a pillar of salt, we are trained by the fear of the example to obey God's ordinances; when the sins of the Amorites are waited on to be completed, we know both God's mercy and his justice, since by his waiting the time for us to cease from sins is extended, and vengeance is decreed, deferred to the completion of crimes. ### Scripture references - Gen 1:1: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 5:24: allusion, high confidence - Gen 19:16: allusion, high confidence - Gen 19:26: allusion, high confidence - Gen 15:16: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Gen 1; Gen 5:24; Gen 19:16, 26; Gen 15:16. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.12.1 (CSEL 65:36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/1-24-1/#p-2-12-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.13.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-13-1 - Source: CSEL 65:36 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Hilary lists the events of Israel's history. ### Latin text Iam uero generationum ordo, Abrahae electio, patriarcharum procreatio. populi seruitus, Egyptiorum clades, maris diuisio, mannae irroratio. legis constitutio, sacrificiorum distinctio, iudicum tempus, regnorum cognitio, populi in captiuitatem transmigratio, ### English translation (Claude) Now then, the order of generations, the choosing of Abraham, the begetting of the patriarchs, the servitude of the people, the plagues of the Egyptians, the dividing of the sea, the raining of the manna, the giving of the law, the distinction of sacrifices, the time of the judges, the knowledge of the kingdoms, the people's deportation into captivity, ### Translation notes - The sentence continues in 2.13.2. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.13.1 (CSEL 65:36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-13-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.13.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-13-2 - Source: CSEL 65:36–37 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: All the Old Testament history reveals the Father and the Son, and Christ as God and man. ### Latin text sanctorum uisio, admonitio prophetarum in quantum ad cognitionem necessaria est! in omnibus enim memoratis superius deus pater et deus filius et ex deo patre deus filius, deus et homo Iesus Christus, agnoscitur, dum in creatione mundi deus iubet et deus efficit, dum homo ad communis imaginis speciem formatur, dum pluit sulphur et ignem dominus a domino — nam nec sibi quis iuberet, ut faceret, nec communionem suam ad alterum solus extenderet nec sibi daret atque a se unus acciperet —, dum homo ab Abraham uidetur et deus adoratur, dum in Iacob lucta ab homine deus uidetur, dum hominem tenens benedici se a domino postulat. dum a Nabuchodonosor tribus tantum pueris in caminum missis similis dei filio quartus aspicitur, dum parit uirgo Emmanuhel eum, qui nobiscum deus est. ### English translation (Claude) the vision of the saints, the admonition of the prophets: how necessary they are for knowledge! For in all those mentioned above God the Father and God the Son are recognized, and God the Son from God the Father, God and man, Jesus Christ: when in the creation of the world God commands and God makes; when man is formed after the figure of a common image; when the Lord rains sulfur and fire from the Lord (for no one would command himself to do something, nor would one alone extend his fellowship to another, nor would one give to himself and receive from himself); when a man is seen by Abraham and God is worshiped; when in Jacob's wrestling God is seen by a man; when, holding the man, he asks to be blessed by the Lord; when, three youths only having been cast into the furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, a fourth is seen like the Son of God; when the Virgin bears Emmanuel, who is God with us. ### Scripture references - Gen 1:26: allusion, high confidence - Gen 19:24: allusion, high confidence - Gen 18:2: allusion, high confidence - Gen 32:26: allusion, high confidence - Gen 32:30: allusion, medium confidence - Dan 3:25 (3:92 Vulg.): allusion, high confidence - Isa 7:14: allusion, high confidence - Matt 1:23: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Gen 1:3–26; Gen 19:24; Gen 18:1–2; Gen 32:24–30; Dan 3:25 (3:92 Vulg.); Isa 7:14; Matt 1:23. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.13.2 (CSEL 65:36–37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-13-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.14.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-14-1 - Source: CSEL 65:37 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: These things were written down so that later generations might see the present in the past. ### Latin text Haec ergo ab omnibus significata in uno illo cognita et expleta reseruari in memoriam scriptis et consignatis uoluminibus conuenit, ut posteritas successionum gestis temporis anterioris instructa et praesentia etiam in praeteritis contemplaretur et praeterita nunc quoque in praesentibus ueneraretur. ### English translation (Claude) It was fitting, then, that these things, signified by all and known and fulfilled in that one man, should be kept in memory in written and sealed volumes, so that posterity, instructed by the deeds of the earlier time, might both contemplate present things in past ones and venerate past things even now in present ones. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.14.1 (CSEL 65:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-14-1). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.14.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-14-2 - Source: CSEL 65:37 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Scripture was written for our understanding, not because its truths needed later recognition. ### Latin text namque eadem cum perfecta ueritatis cognitio est, si ueritas ex ratione intelligatur — omnia enim ad cognitionem nostram atque ad firmissimam iudicii nostri fidem scripta sunt —, neque haec, quae ex sententia dei in libros relata sunt, cognitione posteritatis eguerunt. ### English translation (Claude) For since the same is the perfect knowledge of the truth, if the truth is understood from reason (for all things were written for our knowledge and for the firmest assurance of our judgment), these things, which were recorded in the books by God's decision, did not need the knowledge of posterity. ### Scripture references - Rom 15:4: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Allusion: Rom 15:4; 1 Cor 10:11. The Latin is involved; translated by sense. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.14.2 (CSEL 65:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-14-2). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.14.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-14-3 - Source: CSEL 65:37 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: Scripture teaches posterity the Father and the Son from the beginning; the text then breaks off. ### Latin text sed cognitione scripturarum posteritas indigebat, ut ueritatem disceret, ut doctrinam ueritatis ex ratione susciperet, ut scientiam uitae tamquam ab ipsis cunis prouectam sequeretur, scilicet non ambigeret deum ex deo, cum dominus plueret a domino, non ignoraret deum unum innascibilem, cum deus iuberet, non nesciret deum unigenitum, cum deus faceret, non ambigeret, quod duo unum sint, cum unum communis imaginis in homine conderetur exemplum, non negaret quod deus in hominem ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗. ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ### English translation (Claude) But posterity needed the knowledge of the Scriptures, that it might learn the truth, that it might receive the teaching of truth from reason, that it might follow the knowledge of life carried forward as from the very cradle: namely, that it should not doubt God from God, since the Lord rained from the Lord; should not be ignorant of the one unbegettable God, since God commanded; should not be unaware of the only-begotten God, since God made; should not doubt that two are one, since one pattern of a common image was established in man; should not deny that God into man … ### Scripture references - Gen 19:24: allusion, high confidence - Gen 1:26: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The rest of the treatise is lost in the manuscript. - Allusions: Gen 19:24; Gen 1:26. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.14.3 (CSEL 65:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-14-3). ## Treatise on the Mysteries 2.15.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-15-1 - Source: CSEL 65:37–38 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-10-09 Summary: A final fragment: Elijah will turn the fathers to the faith already held by the sons. ### Latin text ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ patribus genitos. et promptum est audire Paulum gloriantem, quod ex Hebreis Israhelita sit de tribu Beniamin. ergo cum Heliae officium sit conuertere corda patrum ad filios, perfectae ei praedicationis mysterium reseruatur, ut ad eam fidem patres conuertat, quam iam eiusdem spiritus prophetiae confirmauit in filiis. ### English translation (Claude) … born to the fathers. And it is easy to hear Paul glorying that he is an Israelite from the Hebrews, of the tribe of Benjamin. Since, then, it is Elijah's office to turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, the mystery of the perfect preaching is reserved for him, that he may turn the fathers to that faith which the spirit of the same prophecy has already confirmed in the sons. ### Scripture references - Phil 3:5: allusion, high confidence - Rom 11:1: allusion, medium confidence - Mal 4:6 (3:24 Vulg.): allusion, high confidence - Luke 1:17: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - A fragment after a gap. Allusions: Phil 3:5; Rom 11:1; Mal 4:6 (3:24 Vulg.); Luke 1:17. ### Citation (SBL) Hilary, Myst. 2.15.1 (CSEL 65:37–38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hilary-tractatus-mysteriorum/2-13-1/#p-2-15-1).