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Syriac Fragments on Ezekiel and the Passover

Fragmenta syriaca in Ezechielem et de Pascha

About the English. Route 3: the Greek original is lost and survives only in Syriac and Arabic; neither is a site language, so the source in hand is Achelis's German translation (1897), translated by Claude with a note; the German is never shown.

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Contents

  1. 1Hippolytus reads the four faces of Ezekiel's living creatures as the four Gospels: ox for Luke, lion for Matthew, man for Mark, eagle for John.
  2. 2The paradoxes of the incarnation and passion are “new things,” a new mystery of salvation through the cross.
  3. 3Two Syriac writers report Hippolytus's view that Jesus did not eat the legal Passover at the Last Supper but gave the sacrament.

About this work

Author
Hippolytus of Rome
Attribution
disputed · Syriac fragments of Hippolytus (a comment on Ezekiel 1 and fragments of the work On the Holy Passover) as translated into German by H. Achelis (1897); the Greek is lost. Further Syriac and other pieces of the same collections are in hippolytus-fragmenta-orientalia and -2.
Standing
Honoured by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox.
Date
ca. 200-235 (approximate) · Hippolytus's writing career; the fragments are quoted by much later authors.
Written at
Rome, Italy (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
1 = on Ezekiel (Achelis, GCS 1.2, p. 183); 2-3 = On the Passover, Syriac fragments IV and VI (Achelis's numbering, pp. 269-270)
SBL abbreviation
Frag. orient. 3Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG number not yet checked
Text from
Hans Achelis, ed., Hippolytus Werke 1.2, GCS 1 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1897), German translations, pp. 183, 269-270 (Printed translation in the public domain; Internet Archive OCR of a public-domain scan)