| I Kings 6:34
| And two doors of fir-tree, one of each side: and each door was double, and so opened with folding-leaves.
| Fir-tree, or some species of cedar, ver. 15. --- Double. In the large doors, other smaller were made, that the priests might pass more easily. (Menochius) --- And so, etc. Literally, "and holding each other, was opened." Both the great and the small doors might open at the same time; (Sanchez) or rather the latter would afford a passage, while the great folding doors were shut. (Menochius) --- Perhaps both the doors of the holy place and of the sanctuary were so connected, that both opened together. (Tract. Middot. 4:1.) (Calmet) --- But the sanctuary would never be thus exposed to public view. Protestants, "two leaves of one door were folding," etc. (Haydock)
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