Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
1 Kings 6:10
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 405, footnote 2 (Image)
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The Account of the Building of Solomon's Temple Contains Serious Difficulties and is to Be Interpreted Spiritually. (HTML)
... that they are brought ready prepared to the place which awaits them in the building? And there is some sort of an ascent about the temple of God, not with angles, but with bends of straight lines. For it is written, “And there was a winding staircase to the middle, and from the middle to the third floor;” for the staircase in the house of God had to be spiral, thus imitating in its ascent the circle, which is the most perfect figure. But that this house might be secure five ties are built in it,[1 Kings 6:10] as fair as possible, a cubit high, that on looking up one might see it to be suggested how we rise from sensible things to the so-called divine perceptions, and so be brought to perceive those things which are seen only by the mind. But the place of ...