Quotes on Revelation recorded by Dionysius Syrus

Hippolytus of Rome (170–235)

Dionysius Bar Salibi quotes the comments of Gaius and Hippolytus on:

1. Revelation 8:8

2. Revelation 8:12

3. Revelation 9:2-3

4. Revelation 9:15

5. Revelation 20:2,3

and of Hippolytus on:

6. Revelation 11:2 (Hippolytus on Matthew 24:15-22)

7. Revelation 11:3

8. Introductory matter to the commentary

and (from a subsequent manuscript find)

9. Complete introduction of the Commentary on Revelation and the first chapter.

Some additional notes by Roger Pearse

10. Extracts from the Commentary on the Four Gospels , also concerned with Gaius.

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HIPPOLYTUS AND HIS 'HEADS AGAINST CAIUS.'

[By John G WYNN . D.D.]

The extant remains of the writings of Caius, and the scattered notices of him that occur in ancient writers, are so few and meagre, that they serve to raise, rather than to solve, questions concerning him. It may be briefly said, that hardly anything has hitherto been known of him with certainty, beyond the facts that he flourished about the year of our Lord 200, and that he wrote a Dialogue against Proclus, a Montanist leader. I believe, therefore, that many students of the early history of the Church, and of the New Testament Canon, will welcome an accession to the scanty materials out of which…

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