Glossa Ordinaria

The beams of our houses are of cedar. The houses: the various churches from among the Gentiles throughout the world; The beams, which are wont to be made for the fortifying of a house: the preachers, by whose word and example the structure of the Church is held together, lest it fall. The panelled ceilings, which are wont to be made for the adorning of a house: the simpler servants of Christ, who cling to the beams and are supported by them, who adorn not by doctrine but by virtues. Of cypress. The cypress is so called in Greek, because its head rises from a roundness into a point: whence also κῶνος is called a spinning-top, that is, a lofty roundness; hence also the fruit, when it is called a cone: whence, Cone-bearing cypresses.