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Doubtful Fragments on the Psalms

Hippolytus

On the Words in Psalm cxxxix. 15: “My Substance or (Bones) Was Not Hid from Thee, Which Thou Madest in Secret.”

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Author: Hippolytus

XII.

On the Words in Psalm cxxxix. 15: “My Substance or (Bones) Was Not Hid from Thee, Which Thou Madest in Secret.”

It is said also by those who

‹ On the Words in Psalm cxxvii. 7: “On the Wrath of Mine Enemies.” Etc.

treat

of

the

nature

and

generation

of

animals

,

that

the

change

of

the

blood

into

bone

is

something

invisible

and

intangible

,

although

in

the

case

of

other

parts

,

I

mean

the

flesh

and

nerves

,

the

mode

of

their

formation

may

be

seen

.

And

the

Scripture

also

,

in

Ecclesiastes

,

adduces

this

,

saying

,

“

As

thou

knowest

not

the

bones

in

the

womb

of

her

that

is

with

child

,

so

thou

shalt

not

know

the

works

of

God

.

”

But

from

Thee

was

not

hid

even

my

substance

,

as

it

was

originally

in

the

lowest

parts

of

the

earth

.

Notes

1
Eccles. xi. 5.