And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
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Bede
AD 735
The windows of the temple are the holy teachers and all the spiritual people in the church to whom when in divine ecstasy it is granted more specially than to the others to see the hidden mysteries of heaven. And when they reveal publicly to the faithful what they have seen in private, they fill all the inner recesses of the temple as windows do with the sunlight they let in. Hence these windows are appropriately said to have been slanting, that is, wider on the inside, because, of course, whoever receives a ray of heavenly contemplation even for a moment must expand the bosom of his heart more fully by mortification and prepare it by resourceful asceticism to strive for greater things. - "On the Temple 1.7.1"
Oblique windows. Which were made slanting, that the light might be more easily communicated within. (Haydock)
On the outside they were not so large. (Worthington) (Menochius)
Hebrew, "windows to see through, shut "with lattices, (Calmet) or blinds. Protestants, "he made windows of narrow lights. "(Haydock)
Curtains might be hung before them, as no glass was yet used. (Calmet)
These windows occupied the five cubits above the chambers, which were built on the west end, and on the sides of the temple, 15 cubits high. (Calmet)
No windows were permitted in the holy of holies. (Menochius)
