Her worship seems to be hostile to sexual experience , that is , hippolytus has privileged access to her , he can speak with her but cannot see her , and this access seems to be connected with the virtue of chastity .
We should probably assume , with harnack , that hippolytus would have had less objection to the study of plato or the stoics , and that he disliked their purely literal exegesis , which neglected the allegorical sense .