It has been a while since I have last updated, vacation can sometimes be more busy than regular workweeks. Fortunately I’ve made great progress in the translation and will begin editing the rough draft in a few weeks. Soon I will begin posting some excerpts on how Hippolytus interprets the prophetic dreams of Daniel. For now however I would like to end the first post of the new year with what Hippolytus’ thought concerning the nature of the Church.
For neither is a mere place able to be a called the Church, nor a house which is built with stone and clay, nor a man himself able to call himself the Church. For a house is destroyed and a man dies. And so, what is the Church? The community of saints participating in truth. Therefore unanimity and the way of the saints added together, this becomes the Church the spiritual House of God.
How beautiful and true his words are.
