ST. HIPPOLYTUS BISHOP OF PORTO AND MARTYR THE SURVIVING WORKS AND FRAGMENTS First collected by Johann Albert Fabricius and Andrea Gallandi, now at last revised, augmented, and illustrated.
PARS I. — EXEGESEA.
FRAGMENTS FROM COMMENTARIES ON VARIOUS BOOKS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE.
ON THE HEXAEMERON
By St. John of Damascus in the Sacra Parallela, Works, vol. II, p. 787 (From Gallandi)
Of St. Hippolytus, Bishop of Rome.
Furthermore, it behooved us to explain these things, so that we might remove the suspicion of many. For some are of a mind to say that Paradise exists in heaven, and is not of created things. Since, therefore, the rivers which flow forth from it, which anyone who wills may even now observe, are seen by our eyes, let everyone conclude that it was planted not in heaven, but truly among created things. And there is also a place in the East, and a field of election. A