Exodus 25:32 (WEB)
There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side;
Fathers and councils · 2
Irenaeus of Lyons
“What of the candlestick, too, which had seven branches and seven lamps? while, if these had been made according to the type, it ought to have had eight branches and a like number of lamps, after the type of the primary Ogdoad, which shines pre-eminently among the Æons, and illuminates the whole Pleroma.” — editor's note: Only six branches are mentioned in Ex. xxv. 32.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“To the same doctrine belongs, I think (if I may omit the seven-stemmed and seven-lamped candlestick of the Temple) that the ceremony of the Priests’ consecration lasted seven days; and seven that of the purifying of a leper, and that of the Dedication of the Temple the…” — editor's note: Ex. xxv. 32, 37.
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