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Patristic A.D. 235 · Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on Dan 13:18 (COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 1:18.4)

Hippolytus of Rome, on Dan 13:18

Hippolytus of Rome · c. A.D. 170–235
Dan 13:18 · Douay-Rheims
“And they did as she bade them: and they shut the doors of the orchard, and went out by a back door to fetch what she had commanded them, and they knew not that the elders were hid within.”
On this verse:
“Thus just as in paradise the devil hid in the snake, also now, hidden in the elders, it has conceived desire in order to corrupt Eve anew.”

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