Verse 7
7. Stone made ready before it was brought thither Literally, Stone completed at the quarry; that is, hewn and shaped for the very spot it was known to be designed to occupy.
Neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard This further attests the consummate skill of the Sidonian builders. But this fact, so noticeable in itself, is also deeply symbolical. It indicates the silent but sure and mighty growth of the kingdom of Christ. In his personal ministry he did not cry nor lift up his voice in the street; and his Church, like the silent increase of the mustard seed, rises and spreads, and thus goes on to its completion, every day disclosing more and more the consummate skill and infinite wisdom of the Great Architect, “in whom all the building fifty framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord.” Ephesians 2:21.
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