And the house which I build is great. — 1 Chronicles 29:1.
Great is our God above all gods. — Exodus 18
11; Deuteronomy 10:17; Psalms 77:13; Psalms 95:3. According to modern notions of magnitude, the Temple of Solomon was a small building. (See on 1 Kings 6:2-3.) Shelley’s
“There once proud Salem’s haughty fane
Reared high to heaven its thousand golden domes,
is pure fancy.