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2Ch 3:1, 2.
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英文原文
2Ch 3:1, 2.
PLACE AND TIME OF BUILDING THE TEMPLE.
1. Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David--These words seem to intimate that the region where the temple was built was previously known by the name of Moriah
(Ge 22:2),
and do not afford sufficient evidence for affirming, as has been done [STANLEY], that the name was first given to the mount, in consequence of the vision seen by David. Mount Moriah was one summit of a range of hills which went under the general name of Zion. The platform of the temple is now, and has long been, occupied by the haram, or sacred enclosure, within which stand the three mosques of Omar (the smallest), of El Aksa, which in early times was a Christian church, and of Kubbet el Sakhara, "The dome of the rock," so called from a huge block of limestone rock in the center of the floor, which, it is supposed, formed the elevated threshing-floor of Araunah, and on which the great brazen altar stood. The site of the temple, then, is so far established for an almost universal belief is entertained in the authenticity of the tradition regarding the rock El Sakhara; and it has also been conclusively proved that the area of the temple was identical on its western, eastern, and southern sides with the present enclosure of the haram [ROBINSON]. "That the temple was situated somewhere within the oblong enclosure on Mount Moriah, all topographers are agreed, although there is not the slightest vestige of the sacred fane now remaining; and the greatest diversity of sentiment prevails as to its exact position within that large area, whether in the center of the haram, or in its southwest corner" [BARCLAY]. Moreover, the full extent of the temple area is a problem that remains to be solved, for the platform of Mount Moriah being too narrow for the extensive buildings and courts attached to the sacred edifice, Solomon resorted to artificial means of enlarging and levelling it, by erecting vaults, which, as JOSEPHUS states, rested on immense earthen mounds raised from the slope of the hill. It should be borne in mind at the outset that the grandeur of the temple did not consist in its colossal structure so much as in its internal splendor, and the vast courts and buildings attached to it. It was not intended for the reception of a worshipping assembly, for the people always stood in the outer courts of the sanctuary.
3
2Ch 3:3-7.
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2Ch 3:3-7.
殿的尺度與裝飾。
3. 所羅門為建造上帝之殿所依據的——即他父親交給他的書面圖則與規格。尺度以肘為單位，「按初前的尺度」，即摩西時代舊標準。但對此意見分歧甚大，有人以一肘為十八吋，有人則作二十一吋。聖殿以更堅固耐久的材料體現了會幕的基本形制（只是大了一倍），是一座長方形建築，東西長七十肘，南北寬二十肘。
英文原文
2Ch 3:3-7.
MEASURES AND ORNAMENTS OF THE HOUSE.
3. these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God--by the written plan and specifications given him by his father. The measurements are reckoned by cubits, "after the first measure," that is, the old Mosaic standard. But there is great difference of opinion about this, some making the cubit eighteen, others twenty-one inches. The temple, which embodied in more solid and durable materials the ground-form of the tabernacle (only being twice as large), was a rectangular building, seventy cubits long from east to west, and twenty cubits wide from north to south.
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4. 廊子——殿的闊度（其長度自東至西）在此被用作廊子長度的度量。因此門廊長約三十至三十五呎，寬約十五至十七吋半呎。
高一百二十肘——以一肘為十八吋計，為一百八十呎；以二十一吋計，則為二百一十呎；故門廊以塔形——或兩座金字塔狀塔——升起，合高一百二十肘，每座約九十或一百零五呎高〔STIEGLITZ〕。這門廊因此類似科薩巴德（Khorsabad）王宮的門樓（propylæum）〔LAYARD〕，或埃德富（Edfou）神殿的門樓。
英文原文
4. the porch--The breadth of the house, whose length ran from east to west, is here given as the measure of the length of the piazza. The portico would thus be from thirty to thirty-five feet long, and from fifteen to seventeen and a half feet broad.
the height was an hundred and twenty cubits--This, taking the cubit at eighteen inches, would be one hundred eighty feet; at twenty-one inches, two hundred ten feet; so that the porch would rise in the form of a tower, or two pyramidal towers, whose united height was one hundred twenty cubits, and each of them about ninety or one hundred five feet high [STIEGLITZ]. This porch would thus be like the propylæum or gateway of the palace of Khorsabad [LAYARD], or at the temple of Edfou.
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5. 大殿——即聖所，前面或外間的屋子（參
1Ki 6:17）。
英文原文
5. the greater house--that is, the holy places, the front or outer chamber (see
1Ki 6:17).
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6. 他用寶石裝飾這殿，使它華美——更恰當地說，他用珍貴華美的大理石鋪設這殿〔KITTO〕。也許這些是帶有不同色紋的石頭，用以裝飾牆壁。這是一種古老而十足的東方式裝飾。其下有一層大理石的底層，上面鋪以松木板。整個內部鑲以木板，飾以精美的雕刻——成簇的枝葉花朱，其中石榴與蓮花（或睡蓮）最為顯目；除地板外，全都包以金子，或鍍金或以金片覆蓋
（1Ki 6:1-38）。
英文原文
6. he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty--better, he paved the house with precious and beautiful marble [KITTO]. It may be, after all, that these were stones with veins of different colors for decorating the walls. This was an ancient and thoroughly Oriental kind of embellishment. There was an under pavement of marble, which was covered with planks of fir. The whole interior was lined with boards, richly decorated with carved work, clusters of foliage and flowers, among which the pomegranate and lotus (or water-lily) were conspicuous; and overlaid, excepting the floor, with gold, either by gilding or in plates
(1Ki 6:1-38).
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2Ch 3:8-13.
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2Ch 3:8-13.
至聖所的尺度等。
8. 至聖所——它是一個完整的立方體（參
1Ki 6:20）。
用……金子包裹，共六百他連得——以每盎司4英鎊計，等於三百六十萬英鎊。
英文原文
2Ch 3:8-13.
DIMENSIONS, &C., OF THE MOST HOLY HOUSE.
8. the most holy house--It was a perfect cube (compare
1Ki 6:20).
overlaid it with . . . gold, amounting to six hundred talents--at £4 per ounce, equal to £3,600,000.
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10-13. 兩個基路伯——會幕中的這兩個像乃純金所造
（Ex 25:1-40）， 展翅遮蓋施恩座。聖殿中所立的兩個則以橄欖木製成，外面包金。它們體型龐大，如亞述的雕刻一般；每一個展開雙翅各佔十肘高與長的空間——兩翅彼此相接，另兩翅觸及對面牆壁；它們的臉朝內，即朝向至聖所，與其功用相符——就是要遮掩約櫃。
英文原文
10-13. two cherubims--These figures in the tabernacle were of pure gold
(Ex 25:1-40)
and overshadowed the mercy seat. The two placed in the temple were made of olive wood, overlaid with gold. They were of colossal size, like the Assyrian sculptures; for each, with expanded wings, covered a space of ten cubits in height and length--two wings touched each other, while the other two reached the opposite walls; their faces were inward, that is, towards the most holy house, conformably to their use, which was to veil the ark.
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2Ch 3:14-17.
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2Ch 3:14-17.
幔子與柱子
（參
1Ki 6:21）。 此處所給的是合起來的高度；雖然精確尺寸為三十六肘，但每根柱子只有十七肘半，因半肘被柱頂或柱座所佔。它們大概是按在模中澆鑄前、躺臥在一起的狀態來描述的〔POOLE〕。其周圍約十八至二十一呎，高四十呎。這兩根柱子，或如有人所稱的方尖碑，裝飾華美，與聖殿華麗的內部相稱地構成了入口。
英文原文
2Ch 3:14-17.
VEIL AND PILLARS
(see
1Ki 6:21).
The united height is here given; and though the exact dimensions would be thirty-six cubits, each column was only seventeen cubits and a half, a half cubit being taken up by the capital or the base. They were probably described as they were lying together in the mould before they were set up [POOLE]. They would be from eighteen to twenty-one feet in circumference, and stand forty feet in height. These pillars, or obelisks, as some call them, were highly ornamented, and formed an entrance in keeping with the splendid interior of the temple.
2Ch 3:1, 2.
建造聖殿的地點與時間。
1. 摩利亞山，就是耶和華向大衛顯現的地方——這話似乎暗示建殿的區域原先就以摩利亞之名為人所知
（Ge 22:2），
不足以作為證據來斷言（如〔STANLEY〕所作的）這山名是因大衛所見的異象才首次賦予。摩利亞山是統稱錫安的山脈中的一座山峰。聖殿的台基如今、且久已為禁地（haram，即神聖圍牆區）所佔，區內矗立著三座清真寺：奧馬爾清真寺（最小的一座）、埃勒阿克薩清真寺（El Aksa，早期曾為基督教教堂），以及「圓頂石殿」（Kubbet el Sakhara，「磐石圓頂」），得名於堂中央一塊巨大的石灰岩——據推測那就是亞勞拿高出的打麥場，大銅祭壇即立於其上。那麼聖殿的所在，因關於「薩赫拉石」（El Sakhara）傳統的真實性幾乎受到普遍信賴，在某種程度上已告確立；同時也已確鑿證明，聖殿區域的西、東、南三面與現今禁地的圍牆區完全一致〔ROBINSON〕。「聖殿位於摩利亞山那長方形圍牆區內某處，所有地形學者意見一致，儘管如今聖殿本身已無絲毫遺跡可尋；至於它在那大片區域內的確切位置，是居於禁地中央、抑在其西南角，則意見極為分歧」〔BARCLAY〕。再者，聖殿區的整體範圍仍是待解之謎，因摩利亞山的台基過於狹窄，容不下這聖殿附屬的廣大建築與院宇，所羅門便以人工方法擴展並夷平地基，修築穹窖——據約瑟夫所言，這些穹窖建於自山坡填起的巨大土丘之上。首先應當留意，聖殿的宏偉不在於其龐大的結構，而在於其內部的輝煌，以及附屬於它的廣大院宇與建築。它並非為容納敬拜的會眾而設，因百姓向來站立於聖所的外院。