In book 4 of his commentary on Daniel, Hippolytus (d. 236) identified the (new) Ark of the Covenant with Jesus, not Mary:
24.3. For
he says to him, “And you shall make an ark of incorruptible wood and you will
gild it with pure gold inside and outside and you shall make its height two
cubits and a half and its breadth a cubit and a half and its height a cubit and
a half.” The measure of which added together makes five and a half cubits, so that
the five thousand five hundred years may be demonstrated, in which time the
Savior comes from the Virgin, and then he offered the Ark, his own body,
into the world, gilded in pure gold, inside with the Word, outside with the
Holy Spirit, so that the truth may be shown and the Ark may be manifested.
24.4. And
so from the generation of Christ it is necessary to count the remaining five
hundred years to the consummation of the six thousand years, and in this way
the end will be. 24.5. But because in the fifth and a half time the
Savior arrived in the world, bearing the incorruptible ark, that is his
own body, John says, “and it was the sixth hours,” so that half of the day may
be demonstrated, a day of the Lord is like thousand years. And so the
half of these is five hundred years. (T. C. Schmidt, Hippolytus
of Rome: Commentary on Daniel [2010], 141-42)
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