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Updated: April 30, 2025
The lower capitals had a fine network over the whole, and chain-work hanging in festoons outside. There were also pomegranates wrought upon them. The upper capitals, forming a cornice to the whole pillar, were ornamented with lily-work. At Persepolis there still stands a pillar, the cornice of which is carved with three rows of lily leaves.
And let ministers do this; they are now the pillars of the churches, and they stand before the porch of the house; let them also show their lily-work to the house, that the church may learn of them to be without carefulness as to worldly things, and also to be rich in love and charity towards the brethren. Third. Another ornament unto this porch was, that it was an inlet into the temple.
In the centre of the middle compartment is sculptured on the face of the rock the similitude of a doorway, closely resembling those which still stand on the great platform; that is to say, doubly recessed, and ornamented at the top with lily-work. The upper portion of this doorway is filled with the solid rock, smoothed to a flat surface and crossed by three horizontal bars.
As it is in the church, the grace of love is as gold. It is the greatest, the richest of graces, and that which abides for ever. Love is a golden grace; let then the churches, as the porch of the temple was, be inlaid with love, as gold. Second. It had the pillars adjoined to it, the which, besides their stateliness, seem to be there typically to example. Of their lily-work I spake before.
A sort of chain-work covered the "belly" or lower part of the capitals, while above and below were representations of pomegranates in two rows, probably at the top and bottom of the "belly," the number of the pomegranates upon each pillar being two hundred. At the summit of the whole was a sort of "lily-work" or imitation of the lotus blossom, a "motive" adopted from Egypt.
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