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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 7:47

But Solomon built him an house.

Ver. 47. But Solomon built him a house] A stately house indeed, one of the seven wonders of the world (how basely soever Florus writeth of it, out of his deep and desperate hatred of that nation and their religion): far beyond that Ephesian temple of Diana, built all of cedar, in an apish imitation of it; or the Turks' mosques, which yet are very magnificent; the Great Turk also never comes into them but (for reverence' sake to his God) he lays aside all his state and attendance.

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