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The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus

Other Fragments on the Psalms

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II.

On . Of the Triumph of the Christian Faith.

The mercy of God is not so "marvellous" when it is shown in humbler cities as when it is shown in "a strong city,"1389 and for this reason "God is to be blessed."

Notes

  1. 1388

    De Magistris, Acta Martyrum Ostien., p. 256.

  2. 1389

    The allusion probably is to the seat of imperial power itself.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.