Hippolytus of Rome, Fragments from Other Writings of Hippolytus §2: From the same

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And again the same (authority), in the first book of his treatise on the Holy Supper, speaks thus:—

Now that neither in the first nor in the last there was anything false is evident; for he who said of old, “I will not any more eat the passover,” probably partook of supper before the passover. But the passover He did not eat, but He suffered; for it was not the time for Him to eat.