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Discourses and Homilies (fragments)

St Hippolytus of Rome, ANF 5

Chapter 3

III.1

He was altogether2 in all, and everywhere; and though He filleth the universe up to all the principalities of the air, He stripped Himself again. And for a brief space He cries that the cup might pass from Him, with a view to show truly that He was also man.3 But remembering, too, the purpose for which He was sent, He fulfils the dispensation (economy) for which He was sent, and exclaims, “Father, not my will,”4 and, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”5

Notes

  1. From a Homily on the Lord’s Paschal Supper, ibid., p. 293.
  2. ὅλος.
  3. καὶ ἄνθρωπος, also man. See Grabe, Bull’s Defens. Fid. Nic., p. 103.
  4. Luke xxii. 42.
  5. Matt. xxvi. 41.

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