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To this, I answer, that it is not said, in the sacrect
text, that the capital was 4 cubits high, but that a part
in the capital was wrought in form of a lily of 4 cubits.
The whole 19 v. is; " capitella autem, quae erant
super capita columnarum, quasi opere lilii fabricata
erant in porticu quatuor cubitorum." These words
literally mean ; "but the capitals, which were upon the
tops of the columns, in the portico, were fabricated by
work as it were of a lily of 4 cubits." Here Ì3 no men-
tion of the height of the capitals, but only of the size of
that part of the fabrication that was something in form
of a lily. And this I will venture to affirm is the
meaning of the passage : and this it's form very nearly
assimilates it to the ancient Corinthian capital, as im-
proved by Callimachus, in the height of li diameter.
The height also of this capital, both in the book of
Kings, and 2 of Chronicles, is recorded to be 5 cubits,
which is 1 diameter and a trifle more than J : the lily
formed leaves, taking f• of it's height, leaves f for the
abacus and net work, at the bottom of the capital, over
the pomegranate astragal, but under the leaves of the
lily : and when it is considered that in the molten capi-
tal, to which the pomegranates were attached, and not
to the shaft, that accounts for the excess of height more
than in the Corinthian capital, whereto if the astragal,
and fillet were attached, it would be also exactly 1J
diameter high.
The symmetry of this capital, if even we had nö
other proofs, is sufficient to induce our belief that the
style of architecture, called Corinthian, was not invented
by CallimachuSjbut has it's epoch about, or even anterior
to the building of the Temple ; and that Hiram the ar-
chitect and father of the King of Tyre had, doubtless,
attained to that eminence in architecture, recorded in.
Scripture,
To this, I answer, that it is not said, in the sacrect
text, that the capital was 4 cubits high, but that a part
in the capital was wrought in form of a lily of 4 cubits.
The whole 19 v. is; " capitella autem, quae erant
super capita columnarum, quasi opere lilii fabricata
erant in porticu quatuor cubitorum." These words
literally mean ; "but the capitals, which were upon the
tops of the columns, in the portico, were fabricated by
work as it were of a lily of 4 cubits." Here Ì3 no men-
tion of the height of the capitals, but only of the size of
that part of the fabrication that was something in form
of a lily. And this I will venture to affirm is the
meaning of the passage : and this it's form very nearly
assimilates it to the ancient Corinthian capital, as im-
proved by Callimachus, in the height of li diameter.
The height also of this capital, both in the book of
Kings, and 2 of Chronicles, is recorded to be 5 cubits,
which is 1 diameter and a trifle more than J : the lily
formed leaves, taking f• of it's height, leaves f for the
abacus and net work, at the bottom of the capital, over
the pomegranate astragal, but under the leaves of the
lily : and when it is considered that in the molten capi-
tal, to which the pomegranates were attached, and not
to the shaft, that accounts for the excess of height more
than in the Corinthian capital, whereto if the astragal,
and fillet were attached, it would be also exactly 1J
diameter high.
The symmetry of this capital, if even we had nö
other proofs, is sufficient to induce our belief that the
style of architecture, called Corinthian, was not invented
by CallimachuSjbut has it's epoch about, or even anterior
to the building of the Temple ; and that Hiram the ar-
chitect and father of the King of Tyre had, doubtless,
attained to that eminence in architecture, recorded in.
Scripture,