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"When Solomon ascended the throne, anxious to fulfil the wish his father had long entertained of erecting a fixed temple for the reception of the ark, he was not only obliged to send to Tyre for workmen, but for an architect also. Upon this temple a dissertation has been written by a Spaniard of the name of Villalpanda, wherein he, with consummate simplicity, urges that the *orders, instead of being invention of the Greeks, were the invention of God Himself*, and that Callimachus most shamefully put for the pretensions to the formation of the Corinthian capital which, he says, had been used centuries before in the temple at Jerusalem." (Gwilt, Encycl. Art. 52).