on whoſe Top the Temple ſtood. & This Paſlage clears which Wall it was, viz. the outerinoſt of three, which the Floor of the Temp!: T3
and the Mount was encircled with. ! Houſe of God and the Tmp!!, of one as ch. 10. 4. and 2 Chr. 2.1, 5. m The Prophet is cailed to ſee an breadth hear, but the Standard is not put into his hand ; Chriſt, who 15 rhis door Man, hath and keeps the Reed in hisown Hand, as the only fic Per: F, ſon to take the meaſures of all. » Or Cane, for this meaſuring Ro of Is or Staff was of thoſe Canes growing in that Country, ſtreight, log s ſide - p , light, and which Archite&s did make uſe of: o Each Cubit co” Bu 7 ” ſting of 18 Inches in cur common Account ; and though there 15m of the Ch wrangling about the exa& Dimenſions of this Cubir, I will not inc: oy amount meddle with the Diſpute, it was about one Roman Foot and ha : "7 Wawa which comes very near toour Engliſh Foot and half,or eighteen Inca Sourh-ſiq or one half Yard. p Added to each ſix Cubits, not as ſome hav® $upP® each Char
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and one FHand's breadth, cr three Yards and three Inches thick. | Doors being all opzn, you had a clear proſpect through all the Cham-
- And the Height equal, taking the meaſure, not from the bottom of the Wa lin the Valley on the out-fide, which was of different height,
ac ths \ alley was of efferent depth, but taking the meaſure from the
Aria, or Floor Cn the in-ide of tne Wall; it was in the whole Circuit
ofequal height, as here. 7. = 6 & Then 5s came he ? unto the gate F which looketh
hoſe 75:2 ward the eaſt, and went up the ſtairs xthereof, and mea- ww 1/7: £ ,, and theother threſhold z of the gate, which 2was one reed
{-:redthe thre{bold y of the gate, hich was one reed broad,
broad. . | 5 When the P; opher had well obſerved the outer Wall, and the
Meaſuring thercof. # The Man with the Meaſuring-Reed, z. c. Chriſt. « Either of oneof the inner Walls, or of the Templeirſelf. x Till he was got up, he could not meaſure the Threſhold, which was laid at the rop ofthe Stairs; and theſe were ten, if the Meaſurer be ſuppoſed in the Gare cf the Houſe, or eight if in the Gare of the Court of rhe Prieſts, or ſeven it in the Court of 7jrae!, and each Stair halfa Cubit in height ; too high at loweſt for him to take the Meaſure of the Threſh- o!d, if he did not go up the Stairs. » Itis like he meaſured the lower Threſhold firſt, as nextat hand. » 7. e. The upper Threſhold, or Lin- tel of the Gate, which was of equal Dimenſions with rhe lower ; a Recd broad, or three Yards and three Inches broad, or thick.
7 And every little chamber a as one reed long, and one reed broad ; and between the little chambers were five cu- birs +; and the threſhold ofthe gate, by the porch of the
gate within c, 24s one reed.
2 Aloug the Wall of the Porch were Chambers, three on one ſide, and three on the other, wer. 10. of equal Dimenſions, each one reed fquare. 5 A ſpace of two Yards and one half between each Chamber ; either filled with ſome near Poſts or Pillars, or 1t may be quite void, and nothing in them. c The inward Threſhold as well as outward, were of the ſame Meaſures, and curiouſly arched over-head from ſide to ſide, and end toend, which was from Eaſt to Weſt.
8 Hemealured alſo the porch 4 of the gate within, one
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a The Poſts, which were joined together at the top by an Arch; and ſomade the Portico, ſay ſome : The open ſpace under the Arch be. tween the Poſts, or the Alley which leads from the Gate into the more inward parts of the Houſe, or to the inmoſt.. So the French Verſion, on apres il meſurs d'une canne I'alles qui menoit a la porte la plus en de- «d4NFS,
9 Then meaſured he the porch e of the gate, eight cu- bics, and the poſts f thereoftwo cubits, and the porch of the gate was inward. |
e This ſay ſome was another Porch, another Gate diſtant from that ver. 6, But others, morelikely, refer this Meaſuring to the ſame Gate; but where, as before, the Breadth, now the Length is meaſured. f Theſe were half Columns, that from the Floor to the Heighth of the Wall jerted out, asif one half of the Columns wers in the Wall, and the other without, which was both for Beauty and Strength ; and the Proruberance of this half Column was one Cubit, the other taken up
bers to the Temple. | 14 He made ” alfo poſts, of threeſcore cubits :, even unto the poſt 7 of the court round about the gate.
7 Meaſured, and thereby ſh-wel whar kind of Pofts they ſhon'd be. If rhis might be interpreted by C-as's Edit for building this Fae brick 60 Cubits hich, it would b- a clear Confirmation of the Divine Miſſion of the Propher, ard the C-rrainty of a future Performance of the Good he promifed in God's Name; when it appears {o evident, that he had fo long b=iure declared ro what height che Building ſhould be raifed by L:icetive from Cyrus : Bur more like 'tis, that ic refers tothe Height of £111; Gate built up two Stories above the Arch ; and the Poſts in their {teight are only mentioned, but imply all che reſt of the Building over the Exſt-gate. # Theſe high Columns, or Poſts on the inner Front of this Gate, were ſo diſpoied, that the laſt on each ſide was very near to the firſt Poſt, or Pillar of the Court on either ſide of the Gate ; and fo the Poſts and Buildings laid on thoſe Poſts joined on each fid- of rhis Gate. | |
15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance, 'unto the face of the porch of the inner gate, were fity
Ccubits. |
This Verſe ſeems to ſum vp all the Dimenſions at length ; this Gare, its Porch, and Thickneſs of its Walls, and fo fum the Cabits ; ſix in the Thickneſs of th- outer Wall, eighreen 1n the thiee Chame bers, twenty in the Spaces berweznthe Chambers, and ſix Cubits in the Thickneſs of the inner Wall of the Porch.
about, and likewiſe to the || arches &: and windows were, round / about || inward : and upon each poſt were palm. trees m. - | |
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