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Hippolytus

Section 1

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Author: Hippolytus

1. He who rescued from the lowest hell the first

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formed

man

of

earth

when

he

was

lost

and

bound

with

the

chains

of

death

;

He

who

came

down

from

above

,

and

raised

the

earthy

on

high

;

He

who

became

the

evangelist

of

the

dead

,

and

the

redeemer

of

the

souls

,

and

the

resurrection

of

the

buried

,

—

He

was

constituted

the

helper

of

vanquished

man

,

being

made

like

him

Himself

,

(

so

that

)

the

first

-

born

Word

acquainted

Himself

with

the

first

-

formed

Adam

in

the

Virgin

;

He

who

is

spiritual

sought

out

the

earthy

in

the

womb

;

He

who

is

the

ever

-

living

One

sought

out

him

who

,

through

disobedience

,

is

subject

to

death

;

He

who

is

heavenly

called

the

terrene

to

the

things

that

are

above

;

He

who

is

the

nobly

-

born

sought

,

by

means

of

His

own

subjection

,

to

declare

the

slave

free

;

He

transformed

the

man

into

adamant

who

was

dissolved

into

dust

and

made

the

food

of

the

serpent

,

and

declared

Him

who

hung

on

the

tree

to

be

Lord

over

the

conqueror

,

and

thus

through

the

tree

He

is

found

victor

.

Notes

2
τὸν κάτω εἰς τὰ ἄνω. [See p. 238, note 17, supra.]