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What the Fathers say

1 Kings 5:18

Western Saints

Bede

"Furthermore the men of Biblos [i.e., the Giblites] prepared wood and stones to build the house." Biblos is a city in Phoenicia that Ezekiel mentions: "Your skilled men, Tyre, were your pilots. The elders of Biblos and its skilled men," for which [city] in Hebrew is written Gobel or Gebal, which means "defining" or "limiting." This word is very appropriate to those who prepare people's hearts for the spiritual edifice that is built of the virtues of the soul. …

Of the Temple of Solomon 1.4.3 ↗