3 Kings 6:21
And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Domum quoque ante oraculum operuit auro purissimo, et affixit laminas clavis aureis.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from 3 Kings 6:20
- καὶ περιέσχεν αὐτὸν χρυσίῳ συνκεκλεισμένῳ· καὶ ἐποίησεν θυσιαστήριον κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ δαβεὶρ καὶ περιέσχεν αὐτὸν χρυσίῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְצַ֨ף שְׁלֹמֹ֧ה אֶת הַבַּ֛יִת מִפְּנִ֖ימָה זָהָ֣ב סָג֑וּר וַיְעַבֵּ֞ר ברתיקות זָהָב֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הַדְּבִ֔יר וַיְצַפֵּ֖הוּ זָהָֽב
Haydock's commentary
Before, ver. 17. The holy and the most holy place were equally covered with plates of gold. (Haydock)
Hebrew, "So Solomon overlaid the inner temple with gold reserved, and he made a partition with chains of gold, before the sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold." (Haydock)
the chains were destined to fasten the doors, before locks were invented.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Origen Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapter XXIV
For the sake of those, however, who consider that nothing further than the narrative itself is meant to be indicated in these words, it may not be unfitting to introduce at this point some considerations which they can scarcely withstand, to show that the words ought to be regarded as those of the Spirit, and that the mind of the Spirit should be sought for in them. Did the sons of the kings really spend their time in hewing the great and precious stones, and practise a craft so little in keeping with royal birth? And the number of the burden-bearers and of the stone-cutters and of the officers, the duration, too, of the period of preparing the stones and marking them, is all this recorded as it really was? The holy house, too, was got ready in peace and was to be built for God without hammer or axe or any iron tool, that there might be no disturbance in the house of God. …