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On Isaiah

Hippolytus

Part 3 · Introduction

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Author: Hippolytus

III.

We find in the commentaries, written by our predecessors,

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that

day

had

thirty

-

two

hours

.

For

when

the

sun

had

run

its

course

,

and

reached

the

tenth

hour

,

and

the

shadow

had

gone

down

by

the

ten

degrees

in

the

house

of

the

temple

,

the

sun

turned

back

again

by

the

ten

degrees

,

according

to

the

word

of

the

Lord

,

and

there

were

thus

twenty

hours

.

And

again

,

the

sun

accomplished

its

own

proper

course

,

according

to

the

common

law

,

and

reached

its

setting

.

And

thus

there

were

thirty

-

two

hours

.

Notes

1
Hippolytus wrote on Isaiah with the view of making the most of the favourable disposition entertained by the Emperor Alexander Severus towards the Christians, and particularly on that part where the retrogression of the sun is recorded as a sign of an extension of life to Hezekiah.