This week Hippolytus turns towards his audience and exhorts us to follow Susannah’s example of faith:
“For on account of this our Lord Jesus Christ also lived and died and rose again, so that he might reign over the living and the dead” Long ago Susannah in every way taught these things to us, foreshadowing in herself, the mysteries of the Church from which faith and reverence and temperance of the body are preached in all the earth until now. Therefore I exhort all those who read this writing , women and virgins, the small and the great, who have before their eyes the judgment of God, take her as an example to be imitated and just as Sussanah was justified by God and by the word which was administrated through Daniel, she was able to be delivered from the second death.