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Ezra 3:3

And they set the altar upon its bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
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Bede

AD 735
And they set the altar of God upon its bases, because they were in fear of the peoples of the lands around them, and they offered a holocaust to the Lord upon it morning and evening. For the bases of the altar are the hearts of the elect which are prepared as it were by the tools of craftsmen to receive the mysteries of the Lord's faith by the precepts of the teachers who went before. And it is fitting that there is one altar but several bases supporting it, because there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God but many are the hearts of the faithful which, having been taught by the single rule of truth as though they had been brought together into the same bosom, carry the burden of the heavenly mysteries with a common devotion. Otherwise, anyone who entrusts the mysteries of the faith to those who have been insufficiently instructed and are not yet endeavouring to abandon their past sins is like one who places the Lord's altar on the ground without its bases, surrendering th...

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Fear. This must not prevent God's servants from offering sacrifice. (Worthington)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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