Holy Scripture
1 Kings 6:17
A church father on this verse
“We have said that the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was a type of the present church. Hence it was rightly forty cubits long, for this number is often used to signify the present labor of the faithful, just as the number fifty stands for the rest and peace to come. For the number ten contains the precep…”
Source: Septuagint
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17And the temple was forty cubits in extent,
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15And he framed the walls of the house within with cedar boards, from the floor of the house and on to the inner walls and to the beams: he lined the parts enclosed with boards within, and compassed the inward parts of the house with planks of fir.
16And he built the twenty cubits from the top of the wall, one side from the floor to the beams, and he made it from the oracle to the most holy place.
— 1 Kings 6:17 —
19in front of the oracle in the midst of the house within, in order to put there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.