4<\/strong>. windows of narrow lights<\/em> ] It is not easy to explain the nature of these windows from the words used to describe them. They were apparently windows made by overlaid woodwork, either in the fashion of sloping louvre boards or fashioned like latticework crosswise. Then the last word indicates that they were closed in some way or other. Hence the margins of the A.V. ‘windows broad within and<\/em> narrow without<\/em> ’ or ‘skewed and<\/em> closed.’ The former of these margins the R.V. has preserved, but gives in the text windows of fixed latticework<\/strong>, taking the word ‘closed’ to imply the permanent nature of the woodwork in the apertures. These windows were in the wall, above the roof of the chambers which are described in the next verse, and must have been of the nature of the clerestory windows which overlook the aisles of a church. There could have been only very little light from them, but the building was lighted artificially.<\/p>\n Windows of narrow lights – <\/B>Either (as in the margin) windows, externally mere slits in the wall, but opening wide within, like the windows of old castles: or, more probably, windows with fixed lattices. The windows seem to have been placed high in the walls, above the chambers spoken of in 1Ki 6:5-8<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n Verse 4<\/span>. Windows of narrow lights.<\/B><\/I>] The Vulgate<\/I> says, fenestras<\/I> obliquas<\/I>, oblique windows; but what sort of windows could such be?<\/P> <\/P> The Hebrew is challoney shekuphim atumim,<\/I> windows to look through, which shut<\/I>. Probably latticed windows: windows through which a person within could see well; but a person without, nothing. Windows<\/I>, says the Targum, which were open within<\/I> and shut without<\/I>. Does he mean windows<\/I> with shutters<\/I>; or, are we to understand, with the Arabic, windows opening wide within, and narrow on the outside; such as we still see in ancient castles? This sense our margin<\/I> expresses. We hear nothing of glass<\/I> or any other diaphanous<\/I> substance. Windows, perhaps originally windore<\/I>, a door<\/I> to let the wind<\/I> in, in order to ventilate<\/I> the building, and through which external objects might be discerned.<\/P> <\/p>\n Narrow outward, to prevent the inconveniences of the weather; widening by degrees inward, that so the house might better receive and more disperse the light. Or, for prospect<\/I>, i.e. to give light; yet shut<\/I>, i.e. so far closed as to keep out weather, and let in light. <\/P> <\/p>\n 4. windows of narrow lights<\/B>thatis, windows with lattices, capable of being shut and opened atpleasure, partly to let out the vapor of the lamps, the smoke of thefrankincense, and partly to give light [KEIL].<\/P> 1Ki6:5-10<\/span>. THE CHAMBERSTHEREOF.<\/P><\/p>\n And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.<\/strong> Or “open, shut” o, which could be both, having shutters to them, to open or shut at pleasure; windows which they could open, and look through at them, or shut when they pleased; the Targum is,<\/p>\n “open within, and shut without;”<\/p>\n or, as others understand it, they were wide within, and narrow without; by being narrow without, the house was preserved from bad weather, as well as could not so easily be looked into by those without; and by being broader within, the light that was let in spread itself within the house; which some interpret only of the holy place, the most holy place having, as they suppose, no windows in it, which yet is not certain: now these windows may denote the word and ordinances of the church of God, whereby light is communicated to men; which in the present state is but narrow or small, in comparison of the new Jerusalem church state, and the ultimate glory; and especially so it was under the legal dispensation, which was very obscure; see So 2:9<\/span><\/p>\n Isa 55:8<\/span>.<\/p>\n o “apertas clausas”, Vatablus; “perspectui accommodas, clausas”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.<\/p>\n (4) Windows of narrow lights.<\/strong>The marginal reading, windows broad within and narrow withoutsplayed as in ordinary Gothic architectureis supported by very good authorities; but the most probable meaning is windows with fixed beamsthat is, with fixed lattices, like jalousies, useful for ventilation, but immovable, so that no one could look out or in.<\/p>\n 4<\/strong>. <\/strong> Windows of narrow lights <\/strong> Septuagint, holes of concealed network. <\/em> Vulgate, slanting windows. <\/em> The Hebrew is, windows of closed bars; <\/em> that is, of lattice work. They served both for ventilation and for light. The position of these windows is not stated, and we are left to infer that they were set wherever needed, and wherever they would help to enhance the architectural finish and beauty of the building. Hence they were probably both in the upper part of the main building and also in the side-chambers. Compare Eze 40:16<\/span>.<\/p>\n 1Ki 6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.<\/p>\n Ver. 4. And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.<\/strong> ] Or, Broad within and narrow without. Or, Skewed and closed, that is, glazed, as R. Jehudah interpreteth it. Bright the temple was, as being full of windows a<\/em> so Christ came “a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on him should not abide in darkness.” Joh 12:46 The first thing the Spirit doth in a sanctified soul, is to beat out new windows there, and to diffuse a marvellous light. Act 26:19 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Prospectui accommodas clausus.<\/em> – Jun.<\/p>\n windows of narrow lights <\/p>\n Cf. 2Ch 4:20. In the holy of holies in the tabernacle no light but the shekinah glory was provided. In many ways Solomon’s temple manifests the spiritual deterioration of the people, and Jehovah’s condescension to it in grace. <\/p>\n windows of narrow lights: or, windows broad within, and narrow without; or, skewed and closed, 1Ki 6:4, Son 2:9, Eze 40:16, Eze 41:26 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Ki 7:4 – windows Eze 41:16 – narrow<\/p>\n 1Ki 6:4. Windows of narrow lights Narrow without, to prevent the inconveniences of the weather, and widening by degrees inwardly, that the house might better receive, and more disperse, the light. The tabernacle had no light from without, and it appears by this the temple had not much.<\/p>\n And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. 4. windows of narrow lights ] It is not easy to explain the nature of these windows from the words used to describe them. 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Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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