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What the Fathers say

Acts 7:47

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

"But Solomon," it says, "built Him an house." They thought Solomon was great: but that he was not better than his father, nay not even equal to him, is manifest.

Homily on Acts 17 ↗

Oecumenius

In the four hundred eightieth year after the exodus of the sons of Israel from Egypt, Solomon began to build the temple in Jerusalem, as the third book of Kings relates. (1 Kings 6:1) Moreover the temple was built so long after the ascent of Israel from Egypt that, after they had toiled wandering in the mountains, they chose one place, which was in Jerusalem, which God had held in honor. …

Commentary on Acts ↗