Excerpt from Hippolytus and His Age, or the Doctrine and Practice of the Church of Rome, Vol. 4 of 4: Under Commodus and Alexander Severus; And Ancient and Modern Christianity and Divinity Compared The Apology of Hippolytus is designed to complete the picture of a man and of an age representing the beginnings of Christianity, and throwing there fore a new light on its prospects, which are those of the human race. The second part of this Volume presents a succinct account of the gradual formation of the Christian Worship and rituals in the ancient Church, and gives the texts of the liturgies for the first time critically and historically arranged. But I cannot take leave of my readers without adding a word on the Ignatian question, upon which the work of Hippolytus bears, directly or indirectly, in so many respects. 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.