And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.

Ver. 18. Carved with knops and open flowers.] To show the multifarious flourishing graces that are in Christ and Christians. For in this piece of Scripture, by a specialty, we may say with Possevine, Tot esse sacramenta quot literas, tot mysteria quot puncta, tot arcana quot apices; a there are so many words, so many mysteries.

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