In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote opposite the lampstand upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
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Aquinas Study Bible
AD 2017
But as for the circumstance that the fingers seemed to be writing on the wall over against the candlestick, this was to avoid having the hand and the written matter appear at too great a distance from the light to be clearly visible. (St. Jerome)