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Hippolytus

Part 8 · Introduction

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Author: Hippolytus

VIII.

Under the figure of Egypt he described the

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world

;

and

under

things

made

with

hands

,

idolatry

;

and

under

the

earthquake

,

the

subversion

,

and

dissolution

of

the

earth

itself

.

And

he

represented

the

Lord

the

Word

as

a

light

cloud

,

the

purest

tabernacle

,

enthroned

on

which

our

Lord

Jesus

Christ

entered

into

this

life

in

order

to

subvert

error

.

Notes

1
From a Discourse on the beginning of Isaiah. In Theodoret, Dial. I. p. 36.