2 Kings 25:17

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17 One of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, with a crown of brass on it; the crown was three cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 17. But the quality of the Lord's glorified human life, and also the quality of the regenerated life of man, in the natural degree, is that of good acquired by a full course of temptations; and the inmost good of this natural degree is perfect, with its scientifics of truth and good in adjunction, even of natural good; and what is true of the will is also true of the understanding of the natural degree as to internal and external life,