Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 119:6

בשלמא לרבי יוסי היינו דכתיב קטן אלא לרבי יהודה מאי קטן הכי קאמר מזבח אבנים שעשה שלמה תחת מזבח הנחשת קטן הוה

- [He hallowed it] to set up the altar therein.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For this purpose itself the pavement had to be hallowed.');">⁵</span> As for R'Jose, it is well: hence it is written, '[was] little'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not, 'was too little', as E.V. R. Jose understands the verse (I Kings VIII, 64) to mean that Solomon set up an altar of stones, because the brazen altar was unfit, and euphemistically called 'small'.');">⁶</span>

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