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1Kgs 6:21

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1Kgs 6:21 · Douay-Rheims
“And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“The gold leaf with which the house was covered is the manifold works of piety that pure love exhibits in the service either of its Creator or of a brother's need. The gold nails with which the gold leaf was attached are the very precepts of charity or promises of eternal glory through which by the gift of the grace of Christ we are kept constant in the exercise and pursuit of virtue in case we should fail.”
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.