Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Exegetical/Doubtful Fragments on the Pentateuch/Part 1

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus, The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus, Exegetical, Doubtful Fragments on the Pentateuch
by Hippolytus, translated by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond

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157610Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Hippolytus, The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus, Exegetical, Doubtful Fragments on the Pentateuch — Part 1Stewart Dingwall Fordyce SalmondHippolytus

The Law.

In the name of God eternal, everlasting, most mighty, merciful, compassionate.

By the help of God we begin to describe the book of the law, and its interpretation, as the holy, learned, and most excellent fathers have interpreted it.

The following, therefore, is the interpretation of the first book, which indeed is the book of the creation (and) of created beings.