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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Bede
The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. The length of the ark signifies the long-suffering patience by which adversities are bravely endured; the width signifies the breadth of charity, which embraces even those who inflict adversities; the height signifies the sublimity of hope, by which the eternal reward in heaven is insinuated. …
Gregory of Elvira
But the measure of the ark as a length of three hundred cubits evidently shows a figure of the Lord's cross; since three hundred among the Greeks is signified by the letter tau, which letter makes one apex as an upright tree, but the other extended as a yard on the head, and by all means showed the appearance of the cross; by this mystery both the length of life is given to the believing and the breadth of the new earth is granted and the height of the heavenly kingdom is prepared. …
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