The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus 29The Law.

Hippolytus · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume V: The Fathers of the Third Century by Philip Schaff

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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.