Hippolytus · Exposition, prophecy, and polemic · early third century
Hippolytus is especially valuable for readers interested in prophecy. On Christ and Antichrist draws repeatedly from the biblical text and preserves a compelling early discussion of Daniel,…
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…Christ's subsequent coming (Against Heresies, V.25 and V.30). In the early third century, Hippolytus explicitly called Daniel's remaining week "the last week" at the end of the world and correlated its two halves with Revelation's 1,260 days (Treatise on Christ and Antichrist, 43…
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…written against Apollinarian teaching. Read Gregory of Nazianzus, Letter 101. Cerinthus: Hippolytus reports a teaching in which Christ descended upon Jesus at baptism and departed before the passion. This is a hostile ancient report and should be described as such rather than tr…
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