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Expository Treatise Against the Jews

Hippolytus

Section 4

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Author: Hippolytus

4. Now Christ prayed all this economically as man;

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being

,

however

,

true

God

.

But

,

as

I

have

already

said

,

it

was

the

“

form

of

the

servant

”

that

spake

and

suffered

these

things

.

Wherefore

He

added

,

“

My

soul

looked

for

reproach

and

trouble

,

”

that

is

,

I

suffered

of

my

own

will

,

(

and

)

not

by

any

compulsion

.

Yet

“

I

waited

for

one

to

mourn

with

me

,

and

there

was

none

,

”

for

all

my

disciples

forsook

me

and

fled

;

and

for

a

“

comforter

,

and

I

found

none

.

”

Notes

3
οἰκονομικῶς. [The Fathers find Christ everywhere in Scripture, and often understand the expressions of David to be those of our Lord’s humanity, by economy.]
4
Phil. ii. 7.