Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Hippolytus/The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus/Dogmatical and Historical/Fragments of Discourses or Homilies/Part 2

by Hippolytus

II.^[1]

From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, on the Divine Nature.^[2]

God is capable of willing, but not of not willing^[3] for that pertains only to one that changes and makes choice;^[4] for things that are being made follow the eternal will of God, by which also things that are made abide sustained.

Footnotes

1. From the Discourse on the Theology or the Doctrine of Christ’s Divine Nature, extant in the Acts of the Lateran Council, under Martinus 1., ann. 649, secret. v. p. 287, vol. vii. edit. Veneto-Labb.
2. περὶ θεολογίας.
3. οὐ τὸ μὴ θέλειν.
4. τρεπτοῦ καὶ προαιρετοῦ.