Alcuin of York : It is called Solomon's portico, because Solomon went to pray there. The porches of a temple are usually named after the temple Arator : After the threshold of the temple, the Porch of Solomon, who is rightly called Peacemaker, holds him [the lame man]. In the reign of faith, who will always be Peacemaker in the world except Christ? He protects all who please him under the guidance of Peter, by whose leadership they stand up. — ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 1 Bede : All the people ran to them, to the portico called Solomon's. With Israel saved by the apostles, the entire world rushes to the thresholds of the true and peaceful Solomon, of whom it is said: "His government shall increase and peace shall have no end" (Isaiah IX). This is the stone cut from the mountain, which, with the earthly realm of faith's enemy crumbling, alone holds the peaceful dominion through the world (Daniel II). — Commentary on Acts John Chrysostom : "And as he held Peter and John, all the people came together at the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering." From his good feelings and love towards the Apostles, the lame man would not leave them; perhaps he was thanking them openly, and praising them. "And all the people," it is said, "ran together unto them." — Homily on Acts 8 John Chrysostom : How then, I pray you, was it believed? The man himself who was healed proclaimed the benefit. For there was no reason why he should lie, nor why he should have joined a different set of people. Either then it was because of the spaciousness of the place, that he there wrought the miracle, or because the spot was retired. — Homily on Acts 8 Oecumenius : He held the apostles after the healing, either out of goodwill as weaving a praise for them, and showing them off to all as saviors, or suspecting that, if they were left, they would again be seized by passion. For he thought that he had been freed from the passion only until it seized them and clung to them, especially since Peter, having held him, had therefore healed him. — Commentary on Acts Oecumenius : "At the porch called." This porch alone stood from the construction of Solomon. For Nebuchadnezzar set the temple on fire, and Cyrus the Persian rebuilt it. — Commentary on Acts