Friday, December 10, 2021

Phillip B. Munoa on Hippolytus Indirectly Identifying Abraham with the title "Ancient of Days"

  

. . . according to Hippolytus, Abraham was indirectly identified with the title the 'Ancient of Days' (παλαιος των ημερων), a slight alternation of the LXX/Theodotion translation (παλαιος ημερων) by the Valentinians. This came about when they identified the demiurge with the 'Ancient of Days' and then stated that Abraham is the demiurge (Ref. 4.32; 34.4). (Phillip B. Munoa, III, Four Powers in Heaven: The Interpretation of Daniel 7 in the Testament of Abraham [Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 28; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998], 71)