{"id":1105,"date":"2021-03-05T08:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readingthechurchfathers.wordpress.com\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2023-01-09T00:27:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T08:27:25","slug":"hippolytus-on-the-body-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nemoslibrary.com\/patristics\/hippolytus-on-the-body-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippolytus On the Body of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For whereas the Word of God was without flesh, He took upon Himself the holy flesh by the holy Virgin, and prepared a robe which He wove for Himself, like a bridegroom, in the sufferings of the cross, in order that by uniting His own power with our mortal body, and by mixing the incorruptible with the corruptible, and the strong with the weak, He might save perishing man. The web-beam, therefore, is the passion of the Lord upon the cross, and the warp on it is the power of the Holy Spirit, and the woof is the holy flesh wrought (woven) by the Spirit, and the thread is the grace which by the love of Christ binds and unites the two in one, and the combs or (rods) are the Word; and the workers are the patriarchs and prophets who weave the fair, long, perfect tunic for Christ; and the Word passing through these, like the combs or (rods), completes through them that which His Father willeth.<\/p>\n<h4>References:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Hippolytus. <em>Treatise on Christ and Antichrist<\/em>. ANF 5:205. Christian Classics Etherial Library. <a href=\"https:\/\/ccel.org\/ccel\/schaff\/anf05\/anf05.iii.iv.ii.i.html\">https:\/\/ccel.org\/ccel\/schaff\/anf05\/anf05.iii.iv.ii.i.html<\/a>. Accessed January 8, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whereas the Word of God was without flesh, He took upon Himself the holy flesh by the holy Virgin, and prepared a robe which He wove for Himself, like a bridegroom, in the sufferings of the cross, in order that by uniting His own power with our mortal body, and by mixing the incorruptible with the corruptible, and the strong with the weak, He might save perishing man. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hippolytus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1108,"url":"https:\/\/nemoslibrary.com\/patristics\/hippolytus-on-dual-natures-of-christ\/","url_meta":{"origin":1105,"position":0},"title":"Hippolytus On Dual Natures of Christ","author":"Nemo","date":"March 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Thus then, too, though demonstrated as God, He does not refuse the conditions proper to Him as man, since He hungers and toils and thirsts in weariness, and flees in fear, and prays in trouble. 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