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| The Number Six is Also Commended in the Building Up of the Body of Christ and of the Temple at Jerusalem.
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Chapter 5.—The Number Six is Also Commended in the
Building Up of the Body of Christ and of the Temple at
Jerusalem.
9. And not without reason is the
number six understood to be put for a year in the building up of
the body of the Lord, as a figure of which He said that He would
raise up in three days the temple destroyed by the Jews. For they
said, “Forty and six years was this temple in building.”483
And six
times forty-six makes two hundred and seventy-six. And this number
of days completes nine months and six days, which are reckoned, as
it were, ten months for the travail of women; not because all come
to the sixth day after the ninth month, but because the perfection
itself of the body of the Lord is found to have been brought in so
many days to the birth, as the authority of the church maintains
upon the tradition of the elders. For He is believed to have been
conceived on the 25th of March, upon which day also He suffered; so
the womb of the Virgin, in which He was conceived, where no one of
mortals was begotten, corresponds to the new grave in which He was
buried, wherein was never man laid,484
neither before nor since. But He
was born, according to tradition, upon December the 25th. If, then
you reckon from that day to this you find two hundred and
seventy-six days which is forty-six times six. And in this number
of years the temple was built, because in that number of sixes the
body of the Lord was perfected; which being destroyed by the
suffering of death, He raised again on the third day. For “He
spake this of the temple of His body,”485
as is declared by the most clear
and solid testimony of the Gospel; where He said, “For as Jonas
was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall
the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the
earth.”486
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