On Jeremiah and
Ezekiel.
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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,
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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.”
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That Hippolytus wrote on Jeremiah is recorded, so far as I know,
by none of the ancients; for the quotation given in the
Catena
of Greek fathers on
Jer. xvii. 11
is taken from his book
On
Antichrist
, chap. lv. Rufinus mentions that Hippolytus wrote
on a certain part of the prophet Ezekiel, viz., on those chapters which
contain the description of the temple of Jerusalem; and of
that commentary the following fragments are preserved.—
De
Magistris
.
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διόροφον
.
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2 Chron. iii. 1, 3,
4
.