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Expository Treatise Against the Jews

Hippolytus

Section 6

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Author: Hippolytus

6. And then hear what follows: “Let their

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eyes

be

darkened

,

that

they

see

not

.

”

And

surely

ye

have

been

darkened

in

the

eyes

of

your

soul

with

a

darkness

utter

and

everlasting

.

For

now

that

the

true

light

has

arisen

,

ye

wander

as

in

the

night

,

and

stumble

on

places

with

no

roads

,

and

fall

headlong

,

as

having

forsaken

the

way

that

saith

,

“

I

am

the

way

.

”

Furthermore

,

hear

this

yet

more

serious

word

:

“

And

their

back

do

thou

bend

always

;

”

that

means

,

in

order

that

they

may

be

slaves

to

the

nations

,

not

four

hundred

and

thirty

years

as

in

Egypt

,

nor

seventy

as

in

Babylon

,

but

bend

them

to

servitude

,

he

says

,

“

always

.

”

In

fine

,

then

,

how

dost

thou

indulge

vain

hopes

,

expecting

to

be

delivered

from

the

misery

which

holdeth

thee

?

For

that

is

somewhat

strange

.

And

not

unjustly

has

he

imprecated

this

blindness

of

eyes

upon

thee

.

But

because

thou

didst

cover

the

eyes

of

Christ

,

(

and

)

thus

thou

didst

beat

Him

,

for

this

reason

,

too

,

bend

thou

thy

back

for

servitude

always

.

And

whereas

thou

didst

pour

out

His

blood

in

indignation

,

hear

what

thy

recompense

shall

be

:

“

Pour

out

Thine

indignation

upon

them

,

and

let

Thy

wrathful

anger

take

hold

of

them

;

”

and

,

“

Let

their

habitation

be

desolate

,

”

to

wit

,

their

celebrated

temple

.

Notes

5
John xiv. 6.
6
The text is οὕτως, for which read perhaps ὅτε = when.