Contributed by Joseph Smith on Aug 6, 2003
                    
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Solomon built the Temple using foreign gifts and foreign artists.  Each of us brings to today’s church the limitations of his own culture, and must learn to ask for and trust the gifts others can give.  Working together we learn to savor God’s greatness.
                
                    
                        The Latin poet Virgil, in his epic poem, The Aeneid, has one of the Trojan warriors murmur, when a giant wooden horse was offered as a gift by the Greek armies outside the city walls, “I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts.”  “I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts.”  That is a statement of
                        
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