2 Chronicles — Chapter 6

FECERAT SALOMON BASIM AENEAM — a bronze platform five cubits square and three cubits high, placed in the middle of the great court, on which Solomon knelt and stretched out his hands to heaven. Lapide: this was like a pulpit, that the kneeling and praying king might be heard and seen by all the surrounding people.

ERGONE CREDIBILE EST UT HABITET DEUS CUM HOMINIBUS SUPER TERRAM? — Solomon's confession of God's transcendence: \"If heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee, how much less this house which I have built?\" Lapide reads this as a type of the Incarnation, wherein God truly deigned to dwell among men.

SACERDOTES TUI, DOMINE DEUS, INDUANTUR SALUTEM — Lapide: Solomon alludes to Psalm 131:9: \"Let thy priests be clothed with justice.\" He understands \"salvation\" as both bodily health and especially spiritual salvation — justice and holiness with which priests should be clothed as a garment on all sides.

NE AVERTAS FACIEM CHRISTI TUI — Lapide: \"that is, of me myself, who have been made by thee a christus, that is, anointed as king.\" Do not turn away the face of thy suppliant-king gazing toward heaven. Lapide sees a deeper sense: David's line is a type of the eternal Anointed One, Christ.