3 Kings 8:6
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies under the wings of the cherubims.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et intulerunt sacerdotes arcam fœderis Domini in locum suum, in oraculum templi, in Sanctum sanctorum, subter alas cherubim.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσφέρουσιν οἱ ἱερεῖς τὴν κιβωτὸν εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτῆς, εἰς τὸ δαβεὶρ τοῦ οἴκου, εἰς τὰ ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων, ὑπὸ τὰς πτέρυγας τῶν χερουβείν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבִ֣אוּ הַ֠כֹּהֲנִים אֶת אֲר֨וֹן בְּרִית יְהוָ֧ה אֶל מְקוֹמ֛וֹ אֶל דְּבִ֥יר הַבַּ֖יִת אֶל קֹ֣דֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁ֑ים אֶל תַּ֖חַת כַּנְפֵ֥י הַכְּרוּבִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Wings. These covered the smaller cherubim, upon the ark. (Haydock) (Chap. vi. 23, 27.)
They formed a sort of throne, with their wings extended, from one side of the building to the other, (Calmet) twenty cubits long. (Haydock)
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
St Gregory Nazianzen On Pentecost
IV. And if we must also look at ancient history, I perceive that Enoch, the seventh among our ancestors, was honoured by translation. I perceive also that the twenty-first, Abraham, was given the glory of the Patriarchate, by the addition of a greater mystery. For the Hebdomad thrice repeated brings out this number. And one who is very bold might venture even to come to the New Adam, my God and Lord Jesus Christ, Who is counted the Seventy-seventh from the old Adam who fell under sin, in the backward genealogy according to Luke. And I think of the seven trumpets of Jesus, the son of Nave, and the same number of circuits and days and priests, by which the walls of Jericho were shaken down. …