The palm tree . the fir tree, which he overlaid with finegold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.—2 Chron. iii. 5. |HE Temple of Solomon I The colours may belaid on the palette, but where is the pencil todip into them i None but a masters handcould dare attempt, with those gorgeous hues,to portray the most magnificent work of Solo-mons magnificent reign. Solomon—whose name is a proverb amongall nations for wisdom and splendour—the tra-ditions of whose greatness yet linger in the dazzling creationsof oriental romances. In the splendid East his name is still—though tens of centuries have gon
The palm tree . the fir tree, which he overlaid with finegold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.—2 Chron. iii. 5. |HE Temple of Solomon I The colours may belaid on the palette, but where is the pencil todip into them i None but a masters handcould dare attempt, with those gorgeous hues,to portray the most magnificent work of Solo-mons magnificent reign. Solomon—whose name is a proverb amongall nations for wisdom and splendour—the tra-ditions of whose greatness yet linger in the dazzling creationsof oriental romances. In the splendid East his name is still—though tens of centuries have gone by—pre-eminent overall for magnificence. The followers of Mahomet believe thatto Solomon was given absolute dominion over the geniiworld—creatures of their imagination, of terrible power byland, and sea, and air ; but one talisman ever compelled theirinstant submission—Solomons seal-ring, composed of brassand iron. * Or leaves of doors (marginal reference). The forimean door-posts. Nerses 33, doors iupposod ti» 404 THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON. But in tlie Sacred Yolumc we find a real and abiding tes-timonj^ to his greatness. When the Son of God himselfwould illustrate the highest pitch of human grandeur, hespake of Solomon in all his glory. His kingdom was small in geographical extent, comparedwith the vastness of Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Romanempires, and also to the broad girdling of the globe that issubject to our own island-kingdoms rule. But, in that itwas the inheritance of Gods chosen people—that its capitalwas Zion, the city of the great king, enjoying the favourof the Most High, and the promised cradle of the Messiah—the kingdom of Solomon, in all the elements of real great-ness, outmatched all others before or since. What would, therefore, be the unparalleled splendour, theabsolute perfection of the great work which, bequeathed tohim as a solemn charge by his dying ftither, was to be thecrowning glory of his reign ? The permission accorded t
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