“1. What does it mean that the ark is carried away from the Stone of Help, except that the heralds of truth take away the mysteries of the Scriptures from that Christ whom the Jews await with a false expectation? For while they turn the testimonies of Holy Scripture toward the knowledge of the true Redeemer, they indee…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 3, Chapter 3
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1And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
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— 1 Samuel 5:1 —
2When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
3And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.