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.

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 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.

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 II.

 III.

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 V.

 VI.

 VII.

 VIII.

 IX.

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 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.

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

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

XII.

On the Words in Psalm cxxxix. 15: “My Substance or (Bones) Was Not Hid from Thee, Which Thou Madest in Secret.”

It is said also by those who treat of the nature and generation of animals, that the change of the blood into bone is something invisible and intangible, although in the case of other parts, I mean the flesh and nerves, the mode of their formation may be seen. And the Scripture also, in Ecclesiastes, adduces this, saying, “As thou knowest not the bones in the womb of her that is with child, so thou shalt not know the works of God.”111 Eccles. xi. 5. But from Thee was not hid even my substance, as it was originally in the lowest parts of the earth.