Works Hippolytus of Rome (170-235) Demonstratio adversus Iudaeos (fragmentum) Expository Treatise Against the Jews

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Now Christ prayed all this economically 1 as man; being, however, true God. But, as I have already said, it was the "form of the servant" 2 that spake and suffered these things. Wherefore He added, "My soul looked for reproach and trouble," that is, I suffered of my own will, (and) not by any compulsion. Yet "I waited for one to mourn with me, and there was none," for all my disciples forsook me and fled; and for a "comforter, and I found none."

  1. oikonomikos. [The Fathers find Christ everywhere in Scripture, and often understand the expressions of David to be those of our Lord's humanity, by economy.] ↩

  2. Phil. ii. 7. ↩

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