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Doubtful Fragments on the Psalms

Hippolytus

On Psalm lix. 11. Concerning the Jews.

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Author: Hippolytus

V.

On Psalm lix. 11. Concerning the Jews.

For this reason, even up to our

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day

,

though

they

see

the

boundaries

(

of

their

country

)

,

and

go

round

about

them

,

they

stand

afar

off

.

And

therefore

have

they

no

longer

king

or

high

priest

or

prophet

,

nor

even

scribes

and

Pharisees

and

Sadducees

among

them

.

He

does

not

,

however

,

say

that

they

are

to

be

cut

off

;

wherefore

their

race

still

subsists

,

and

the

succession

of

their

children

is

continued

.

For

they

have

not

been

cut

off

nor

consumed

from

among

men

—

but

they

are

and

exist

still

—

yet

only

as

those

who

have

been

rejected

and

cast

down

from

the

honour

of

which

of

old

they

were

deemed

worthy

by

God

.

But

again

,

“

Scatter

them

,

”

he

says

,

“

by

Thy

power

;

”

which

word

has

also

come

to

pass

.

For

they

are

scattered

throughout

the

whole

earth

,

in

servitude

everywhere

,

and

engaging

in

the

lowest

and

most

servile

occupations

,

and

doing

any

unseemly

work

for

hunger’s

sake

.

For if they were destroyed from among men, and remained nowhere among the living, they could not see my people, he means, nor know my Church in its prosperity. Therefore “scatter” them everywhere on earth, where my Church is to be established, in order that when they see the Church founded by me, they may be roused to emulate it in piety. And these things did the Saviour also ask on their behalf.