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Deuteronomy 27:5

And there shall you build an altar unto the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up any iron tool upon them.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Stones: the same as those which composed the monument, (Calmet) or rather different from them, (Menochius) as those were polished, ver. 2.

Gregory the Theologian

AD 390
It was once counted a glory for the altar that no axe had been lifted upon it, no stonecutter’s tool seen or heard. The higher meaning was that whatever was consecrated to God should be natural and free from artifice.

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

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