The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Coenobia and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults

THE history of the Old Testament tells us that the most wise Solomon received from heaven “wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart eve as the sand that is on the seashore that cannot be counted;” so that by the Lord’s testimony we may say that no one either has arisen in time past to equal him or will arise after him: and afterward, when wishing to raise that magnificent temple to the Lord, we are told that he asked the help of a foreigner, the king of Tyre. And when there was sent to him one Hiram, the son of a widow woman, it was by his means and ministration that he executed all the glorious things which he devised by the suggestion of the Divine wisdom either for the temple of the Lord or for the sacred vessels.