OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 7:36

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36

On the plates of its supports and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.

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Verse 36. Palm-trees were not expressed, verse 29. All was in relievo, and represented in its natural posture. Calmet.—About. One would have taken them to be alive, they were so well executed. Hebrew “according to the proportion of every one, and added round about,” ( Bible.) projecting. Menochius.

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