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Justin Martyr Church. Personalities Irenaeus of Lyons

Saint Hippolytus of Rome

Born: c. 170; Rome
Died: c. 235; Sardinia

Hippolytus was one of the most important second-third century Christian theologians, whose provenance, identity and corpus remain elusive to scholars and historians. Suggested communities include Palestine, Egypt, Anatolia, Rome and regions of the mideast. The best historians of literature in the ancient church, including Eusebius of Caesarea and Jerome, openly confess they cannot name where Hippolytus the biblical commentator and theologian served in leadership.

First resurrection

65. Moreover, concerning the resurrection and the kingdom of the saints, Daniel says, “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall arise, some to everlasting life, (and some to shame and everlasting contempt)” (Dan 12:2). Esaias says, “The dead men shall arise, and they that are in their tombs shall awake; for the dew from thee is healing to them” (Isa 26:19). The Lord says, “Many in that day shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live” (John 5:25). And the prophet says, “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light” (Eph 5:14). And John says, “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power” (Rev 20:6). For the second death is the lake of fire that burneth. And again the Lord says, “Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun shineth in his glory” (Matt 13:43). And to the saints He will say, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matt 25:34). But what saith He to the wicked? “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels, which my Father hath prepared” (Matt 25:41). And John says, “Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever maketh and loveth a lie; for your part is in the hell of fire” (Rev 22:15). And in like manner also Esaias: “And they shall go forth and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me. And their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be for a spectacle to all flesh(Isa 66:24).

66. Concerning the resurrection of the righteous, Paul also speaks thus in writing to the Thessalonians: “We would not have you to be ignorant concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive (and) remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice and trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive (and) remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thess 4:12).

St. Hippolytus of Rome
On Christ and Antichrist

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