On Isaiah
Hippolytus
Part 2 · Introduction
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From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus on the beginning of
Opening the library…
Opening the library…
On Isaiah
Hippolytus
II.
From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus on the beginning of
Under Egypt he meant the world, and under things made with hands its idolatry, and under the shaking its subversion and dissolution. And the Lord, the Word, he represented as upon a light cloud, referring to that most pure tabernacle, in which setting up His throne, our Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to shake error.
[Theodoret, in his First Dialogue.]
The text is evidently corrupt: Κύριον δὲ τὸν Λόγον, νεφέλην δὲ κούφην τὸ καθαρώτατον σκῆνος, etc. The reference must be to ch. xix. 1.