Excerpt from Hippolytus and His Age, Vol. 3 of 4: Or the Doctrine and Practice of the Church of Rome Under Commodus and Alexander Severus; And Ancient and Modern Christianity and Divinity Compared The two preceding Volumes exhibit the critical part of my task: the first philologically, the second phi los0phically and historically. As to the reconstruc tive portion, I promised in the Preface two things. First, some contributions towards the restoration of an authentic picture of the age of Hippolytus; that is to say, of the community-life of the ancient Church, in education and in worship, in government and in social relations. Secondly, an image of the theology of the present time reflected in the mind of Hippoly tus, as the representative of the learning and divinity of the Church from the end of the second till towards the middle of the third century. I have endeavoured to redeem this pledge in the two concluding Volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.