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Expository Treatise Against the Jews

Hippolytus

Section 5

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Author: Hippolytus

5. Listen with understanding, O Jew, to what

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the

Christ

says

:

“

They

gave

me

gall

for

my

meat

;

and

in

my

thirst

they

gave

me

vinegar

to

drink

.

”

And

these

things

He

did

indeed

endure

from

you

.

Hear

the

Holy

Ghost

tell

you

also

what

return

He

made

to

you

for

that

little

portion

of

vinegar

.

For

the

prophet

says

,

as

in

the

person

of

God

,

“

Let

their

table

become

a

snare

and

retribution

.

”

Of

what

retribution

does

He

speak

?

Manifestly

,

of

the

misery

which

has

now

got

hold

of

thee

.