Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
1 Kings 6:21
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 405, footnote 4 (Image)
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The Account of the Building of Solomon's Temple Contains Serious Difficulties and is to Be Interpreted Spiritually. (HTML)
... 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 the happier stones appears to be that called Dabir, where the ark of the covenant of the Lord was, and, as I may say, the handwriting of God, the tables written with His own finger. And the whole house is overlaid with gold; “the whole house,” we read,[1 Kings 6:21] “he overlaid with gold until all the house was finished.” But there were two cherubim in Dabir, a word which the translators of the Hebrew Bible into Greek failed to render satisfactorily. Some, failing to do justice to the language, render it the ...