Verse 38
38. The month Bul According to Furst and Gesenius, the word Bul means rain; according to others, fruit, produce. Hence the rain-month, or fruit-month, corresponding with November. “Solomon began,” says Wordsworth, “to build the temple in the flower-month, and finished the building in the fruit-month. Such is the life of the Church, and of every believer, who is a temple of the Spirit. it begins with flowers but must end in fruit. ‘The harvest is the end of the world.’”
Seven years And six months, if we reckon more closely.
The temple of Solomon was not distinguished, like the temples of Thebes, for gigantic vastness, for it was not a very large structure, but rather for its harmonious proportions, its beauty and completeness of workmanship, and the excessive costliness of its materials. And the Church, the spiritual house of the living God, is to be specially distinguished for the excellency and completeness of the elect and precious stones which are required to build it; for these are not the many that go in the broad way to destruction, but the comparatively few that find the way of life. Matthew 7:13-14.
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