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Expository Treatise Against the Jews

Hippolytus

Section 7

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Author: Hippolytus

7. But why, O prophet, tell us,

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and

for

what

reason

,

was

the

temple

made

desolate

?

Was

it

on

account

of

that

ancient

fabrication

of

the

calf

?

Was

it

on

account

of

the

idolatry

of

the

people

?

Was

it

for

the

blood

of

the

prophets

?

Was

it

for

the

adultery

and

fornication

of

Israel

?

By

no

means

,

he

says

;

for

in

all

these

transgressions

they

always

found

pardon

open

to

them

,

and

benignity

;

but

it

was

because

they

killed

the

Son

of

their

Benefactor

,

for

He

is

coeternal

with

the

Father

.

Whence

He

saith

,

“

Father

,

let

their

temple

be

made

desolate

;

for

they

have

persecuted

Him

whom

Thou

didst

of

Thine

own

will

smite

for

the

salvation

of

the

world

;

”

that

is

,

they

have

persecuted

me

with

a

violent

and

unjust

death

,

“

and

they

have

added

to

the

pain

of

my

wounds

.

”

In

former

time

,

as

the

Lover

of

man

,

I

had

pain

on

account

of

the

straying

of

the

Gentiles

;

but

to

this

pain

they

have

added

another

,

by

going

also

themselves

astray

.

Wherefore

“

add

iniquity

to

their

iniquity

,

and

tribulation

to

tribulation

,

and

let

them

not

enter

into

Thy

righteousness

,

”

that

is

,

into

Thy

kingdom

;

but

“

let

them

be

blotted

out

of

the

book

of

the

living

,

and

not

be

written

with

the

righteous

,

”

that

is

,

with

their

holy

fathers

and

patriarchs

.

Notes

7
Cf. Matt. xxiii. 38.