What were the dimensions, then, of the temple of Solomon? Its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty. And it was not turned to the east, that

 On Daniel.

 On Daniel.

 II.

 III.

 IV.

 V.

 VI.

 Matt. vi. 11 .

 Chap. ii. 7 And if you please, we say that the Word was the first-born of God, who came down from heaven to the blessed Mary, and was made a first-bor

 Doubtful Fragments on the Pentateuch.

 Preface.

 The Law.

 Section I.

 Sections II., III.

 Section IV.

 Section V.

 Section X.

 On the Psalms.

 I.

 II.

 III.

 IV.

 V.

 VI.

 VII.

 VIII.

 IX.

 X.

 XI.

 XII.

 Dogmatical and Historical.

 Fragments of Discourses or Homilies.

 Fragments of Discourses or Homilies.

 From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, on the Divine Nature.

 St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, in his Homily on the Paschal Supper.

 1. Take me, O Samuel, the heifer brought to Bethlehem, in order to show the king begotten of David, and him who is anointed to be king and priest by t

 And for this reason three seasons of the year prefigured the Saviour Himself, so that He should fulfil the mysteries prophesied of Him. In the Passove

 And an ark of imperishable wood was the Saviour Himself. For by this was signified the imperishable and incorruptible tabernacle (of His body), which

 1. He who rescued from the lowest hell the first-formed man of earth when he was lost and bound with the chains of death He who came down from above,

 Under the figure of Egypt he described the world and under things made with hands, idolatry and under the earthquake, the subversion, and dissolutio

 Now Hippolytus, the martyr and bishop of [the Province of] Rome, in his second discourse on Daniel, speaks thus:—

 Now a person might say that these men, and those who hold a different opinion, are yet near neighbours, being involved in like error. For those men, i

 1. The body of the Lord presented both these to the world, the sacred blood and the holy water.

 Fragments from Other Writings of Hippolytus.

 I.

 II.

 Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, in a letter to a certain queen.

 The story of a maiden of Corinth, and a certain Magistrianus.

Section V.

On Gen. viii. I

Hippolytus, the expositor of the Targum, and my master, Jacobus Rohaviensis, have said: On the twenty-seventh day of the month Jiar, which is the second Hebrew month, the ark rose from the base of the holy mount; and already the waters bore it, and it was carried upon them round about towards the four cardinal points of the world. The ark accordingly held off from the holy mount towards the east, then returned towards the west, then turned to the south, and finally, bearing off eastwards, neared Mount Kardu on the first day of the tenth month. And that is the second month Kanun.

And Noah came out of the ark on the twenty-seventh day of the month Jiar, in the second year: for the ark continued sailing five whole months, and moved to and fro upon the waters, and in a period of fifty-one days neared the land. Nor thereafter did it float about any longer. But it only moved successively toward the four cardinal points of the earth, and again finally stood toward the east. We say, moreover, that that was a sign of the cross. And the ark was a symbol of the Christ who was expected. For that ark was the means of the salvation of Noah and his sons, and also of the cattle, the wild beasts, and the birds. And Christ, too, when He suffered on the cross, delivered us from accusations and sins, and washed us in His own blood most pure.

And just as the ark returned to the east, and neared Mount Kardu, so also Christ, when the work was accomplished and finished which He had proposed to Himself, returned to heaven to the bosom of His Father, and sat down upon the throne of His glory at the Father’s right hand.

As to Mount Kardu, it is in the east, in the land of the sons of Raban, and the Orientals call it Mount Godash;91 Gordyæum. the Arabians and Persians call it Ararat.92 See Fuller, Misc. Sacr., i. 4; and Bochart, Phaleg., p. 22.

And there is a town of the name Kardu, and that hill is called after it, which is indeed very lofty and inaccessible, whose summit no one has ever been able to reach, on account of the violence of the winds and the storms which always prevail there. And if any one attempts to ascend it, there are demons that rush upon him, and cast him down headlong from the ridge of the mountain into the plain, so that he dies. No one, moreover, knows what there is on the top of the mountain, except that certain relics of the wood of the ark still lie there on the surface of the top of the mountain.93 [See p. 149, note 10, supra.]