The two pillars, and the bowls, and the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars;
Read Chapter 4
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Pommels, (epistylia.) Hebrew, "cordons "or rows of pomegranates, (3 Kings vii. 18.) each consisting of one hundred; so that as the two pillars were adorned with a double row, both together would have four hundred. (Calmet)
The precise number is fixed at ninety-six for each row, Jeremias lii. 23. (Tirinus)
