Hippolytus, Fragments on Genesis
The first people, the ones from circumcision, were my strength and the beginning of my endeavors, just as God promised to Abraham and to his seed (Genesis). Yet they have become hard to endure, since the people hardened themselves against obedience to God. They are stubborn and self-willed, not only resisting God's obedience but also becoming self-willed enough to lay hands on the Lord. You have insulted, because the people insulted the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. "Do not become completely hardened," the Spirit says encouragingly, so that by becoming completely hardened you may not be poured out and lost, but instead receive hope of salvation; for whoever becomes hardened and is poured out perishes. Scripture says, "You went up onto your father's bed" (Genesis), and first it recounts what happened: in the last days the people will plot against the Father's bed -- that is, the bride, the Church -- intending to corrupt her, and they continue doing so even today, plotting against her through blasphemies.
Greek
Ὁ πρῶτος λαός, ὁ ἐκ περιτομῆς" ,,ἰσχύς μου καὶ ἀρχὴ τέχνων μου", καϑὼς ὑπέσχετο ὃ ϑεὸς «τῷ ᾿Αβραὰμ τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν καὶ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ. ,,σκληρὸς δὲ φέρεσθαι“, ἐπειδὴ παρεσκληρύνϑη ὃ λαὸς πρὸς τὴν ὑπαχοὴν τοῦ ϑεοῦ. ,καὶ σκληρὸς αὐϑάδης“, ὅτι οὐ μόνον σκληρὸς πρὸς τὴν ὑπακοὴν τοῦ ϑεοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι κεὰ «αὐϑάδης ἐγένετο πρὸς τὸ χεῖρας ἐπιβαλεῖν τῷ χυρίῳ. ,,ἐἐξύβρισας“, ἐπειδὴ διὰ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐξύβοισεν ὃ λαὺς τὸν πατέρα. «μὴ ἐκζέσῃς" δὲ λέγει τὸ πνεῦμα παρακλητικῶς, ἵνα μὴ τέλεον ἐχζέσας ὑπερχυϑῇ, ἐλπίδα δὲ δοὺς αὐτῷ σωτηρίας τὸ γὰρ ἐκζέσαν καὶ ἐκχυϑὲν ἀπόολέτο. (ἀνέβης γὰρ ἐπὶ τῆς κοίτης τοῦ πατρός σου“ πρῶτον μὲν τὸ συμβὰν λέγει, ὅτι ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν μέλλει ὁ λαὸς ἐπιβουλεύειν τῇ κοίτῃ τοῦ πατρός, τουτέστι τῇ νύμφῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ, πρὸς τὸ βούλε σϑαι αὐτὴν διαφϑεῖραι" ὅπερ καὶ πράττει μέχρι καὶ τήμερον ἐπιβουλεύων αὐτῇ διὰ τῶν βλασφημιῶν.