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1Kgs 10:27

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1Kgs 10:27 · Douay-Rheims
“And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
373
A.D.
Ephrem the Syrian Patristic
c. A.D. 306–373
“This means that the knowledge of divine things must be imparted to all nations everywhere through the advent and manifestation of Christ; and Isaiah predicted the coming of Christ in the clearest way by saying, "The earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." The Scripture usually employs the symbol of silver to signify the holy doctrine [of Christ]. Indeed it is a pure, bright and sonorous metal, and its qualities are extraordinarily appropriate to Christ's gospel. Haggai predicted that the temple of the Lord, which is the church of Christ, must be filled with this kind of silver.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.