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Expository Treatise Against the Jews

Hippolytus

Section 9

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Author: Hippolytus

9. I produce now the prophecy of Solomon, which

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speaketh

of

Christ

,

and

announces

clearly

and

perspicuously

things

concerning

the

Jews

;

and

those

which

not

only

are

befalling

them

at

the

present

time

,

but

those

,

too

,

which

shall

befall

them

in

the

future

age

,

on

account

of

the

contumacy

and

audacity

which

they

exhibited

toward

the

Prince

of

Life

;

for

the

prophet

says

,

“

The

ungodly

said

,

reasoning

with

themselves

,

but

not

aright

,

”

that

is

,

about

Christ

,

“

Let

us

lie

in

wait

for

the

righteous

,

because

he

is

not

for

our

turn

,

and

he

is

clean

contrary

to

our

doings

and

words

,

and

upbraideth

us

with

our

offending

the

law

,

and

professeth

to

have

knowledge

of

God

;

and

he

calleth

himself

the

Child

of

God

.

”

And

then

he

says

,

“

He

is

grievous

to

us

even

to

behold

;

for

his

life

is

not

like

other

men’s

,

and

his

ways

are

of

another

fashion

.

We

are

esteemed

of

him

as

counterfeits

,

and

he

abstaineth

from

our

ways

as

from

filthiness

,

and

pronounceth

the

end

of

the

just

to

be

blessed

.

”

And

again

,

listen

to

this

,

O

Jew

!

None

of

the

righteous

or

prophets

called

himself

the

Son

of

God

.

And

therefore

,

as

in

the

person

of

the

Jews

,

Solomon

speaks

again

of

this

righteous

one

,

who

is

Christ

,

thus

:

“

He

was

made

to

reprove

our

thoughts

,

and

he

maketh

his

boast

that

God

is

his

Father

.

Let

us

see

,

then

,

if

his

words

be

true

,

and

let

us

prove

what

shall

happen

in

the

end

of

him

;

for

if

the

just

man

be

the

Son

of

God

,

He

will

help

him

,

and

deliver

him

from

the

hand

of

his

enemies

.

Let

us

condemn

him

with

a

shameful

death

,

for

by

his

own

saying

he

shall

be

respected

.

”

Notes

8
Wisd. ii. 1, 12, 13.
9
Wisd. ii. 15, 16.
10
Wisd. ii. 14, 16, 17, 20. [The argument is ad hominem. The Jews valued this book, but did not account it to be Scripture; yet this quotation is a very remarkable comment on what ancient Jews understood concerning the Just One. Comp. Acts iii. 14; vii. 52; and xxii. 14.]