The priest's blow job puzzles me too, I've never worked that one out. But yes, Hippolytus tells the priest to 'confess, before you burn' because, as he says, the priest 'sins knowing he'll confess, then starts all over again'.
This reminds me of the American wit who defined Catholicism as 'confession on Saturday, mass on Sunday, at it again Monday'.
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