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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 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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 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.

III.142 From a Letter of Hippolytus to a certain queen. In Theodoret’s Dial. II., bearing the title “Unmixed” (ἀσύγχυτος), and Dial. III., entitled “Impassible” (ἀπαθης) [pp. 238–239 supra].

Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, in a letter to a certain queen.143 On the question as to who this queen was, see Stephen le Moyne, in notes to the Varia Sacra, pp. 1103, 1112. In the marble monument mention is made of a letter of Hippolytus to Severina. [Bunsen decides that she was only a princess, a daughter of Alexander Severus. See his Hippolytus, i. p. 276.]

1. He calls Him, then, “the first-fruits of them that sleep,”144 1 Cor. xv. 20. as the “first-begotten of the dead.”145 Col. i. 18. For He, having risen, and being desirous to show that that same (body) had been raised which had also died, when His disciples were in doubt, called Thomas to Him, and said, “Reach hither; handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not bone and flesh, as ye see me have.”146 John xx. 27; Luke xxiv. 39.

2. In calling Him the first-fruits, he testified to that which we have said, viz., that the Saviour, taking to Himself the flesh out of the same lump, raised this same flesh, and made it the first-fruits of the flesh of the righteous, in order that all we who have believed in the hope of the Risen One may have the resurrection in expectation.