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On Jeremiah and Ezekiel

Hippolytus

On Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

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Author: Hippolytus

On Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

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

the

worshippers

might

not

worship

the

rising

sun

,

but

the

Lord

of

the

sun

.

And

let

no

one

marvel

if

,

when

the

Scripture

gives

the

length

at

forty

cubits

,

I

have

said

sixty

.

For

a

little

after

it

mentions

the

other

twenty

,

in

describing

the

holy

of

holies

,

which

it

also

names

Dabir

.

Thus

the

holy

place

was

forty

cubits

,

and

the

holy

of

holies

other

twenty

.

And

Josephus

says

that

the

temple

had

two

storeys

,

and

that

the

whole

height

was

one

hundred

and

twenty

cubits

.

For

so

also

the

book

of

Chronicles

indicates

,

saying

,

“

And

Solomon

began

to

build

the

house

of

God

.

In

length

its

first

measure

was

sixty

cubits

,

and

its

breadth

twenty

cubits

,

and

its

height

one

hundred

and

twenty

;

and

he

overlaid

it

within

with

pure

gold

.

”

Notes

2
διόροφον.
3
2 Chron. iii. 1, 3, 4.