Cubits, Porch 11, and Chambers and Walls 9 Cubits. And who will, have ſuch a new Stru&ure here meaſured (which is more than was ; in thefirſt Table-Fabrick) will make all correſpond to their Hypotheſis, | and you may more eaſily obje&t againſt another's, than demonſtrate. your own Gueſs. The beſt is, the Ecror is not great if a Maa do err
here. |
13 So he meaſured the houſe f, an hundred cubits g long, and the ſeparate place h, and the building 7, wich the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long &.
f The whole Temple, Oracle, Sanftuary and Porch,with the Walls.
From Eaſt to Weſt thus< Stairs of the Eaſt-Porch, or the thickneſs of the Walls Cubirs ; the Paſſage through the Porch 11, Wall of the Temple within the Porch 6 Cubirts, the Temple it ſelf 40 Cubirs, Partition-wall 2 Cubits,the Oracle 20 Cubirs, Weſt-wall thick 6 Cu- birs, the Chambers at bottom of the Weſt-wall 4 Cubitrs, and the outer Wallofrhe Chambers 5 Cubitrs. h See wer. 12.1et.s. i On both the North and South-fide of the Temple. k Which is reckoned the breadth of the Temple 29 Cubits, thickneſs of both Walls 12 Cubirs, the bottom Chamberson both ſides 8 Cubirs, the outer Wall of theſe Chambers 5 Cubirs a-piece; the breadth ofthe placelefrt on each fide 5, on both ſides 10 (7. c.5 each) and then the widenels between this on either fide 20
Cubits.
14 Alſo the breadth of the face 7 of the houſe, and of »» the ſeparate place toward the eaſt, an hundred cu- bits 7.
1 The whole Front ef the Houſe Eaſtward, the Proſpe& of it be-
ingto the Eaſt. »» This explains the other, ſay ſome, che Houſe 1$ the ſeparate «place ; or elſe, as others, that other Building on the
on the one ſide, and the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree onthe other ſide : i# was k made through all the
houſe round about. ,
2 This one Face, the other of a young Lion. Now as to the Aſpett "twas thus ; the Cherub between two Palm-trees looked rowards both Trees ; towards the;one a Man's Face, towards the other a young Lion's Face looked. k And thus it was through the whole Houſs
e Theſe Propor.. | r9und abour, from bottom to top, as ver. 20.
20 From the ground unto above the door / were che” rubims and palm-trees made, and oz the wall mz of ths
temple,
I Some think 'tis the great Eaſt-Gate: I think rather here 1s an Enallage, or change of Number, Door for Doors, and that every Porch was ſo beautified. See chap. 41. 16, 22, 26, 34 mm Theſe beautiful Sculptures were round about the Walls of the Temple, and Oracle too, tho not expreſt here. ;
21 The + poſts» of the temple were ſquared o, and thet6 face p of the ſanuary: the appearance of the ore as the ap- pearance q of the other.
2 On each fide of the Gate or Door, both of Temple and Oracle: o Not round as ſome other were, and as the Poſts of the Door of the Tabernacle were, but of exa& ſquare. p The form of the Doors, or Gate of the Temple was ſquare, 7. e. not arched, as the Gates 0 our Churches ordinarily are, but with a flat Beam, or upper Lintel laid on the top of the Poſts, and fo either made an equilateral $quar*, or an oblong Square. q As was the form of the Gate of the Temp!? in its Iarger, ſo was the Form of the Gate ofthe Ocacle in irs l:ſſer Dir menſions.
22 The altar 7 of wood 5 was three cubits high e,and the length thereof two « cubits ; and the corners' x thereol, _ the length thereof, and the walls y thereof were of wood; and he ſaid unto me, This is * the table z that « before ths |
LORD «, I » Of Incenſe. s Sothe inward Parts were made and covered wit
Gold, Exod. 3o. 111. 1 Kings 6. 29, 22. and from this Covering 0
Gold, *twascalled the Go!den Altar. t One Cubic higher than that P
the Tabernacle of Moſes, Exod. 30. 2. « As long again as Moſer's hy rar of Inceaſe in the Tabernacle. x The Horns framed out ww Y
Weſt-end of the Temple, which was of equal Dimenſions with the
ſtories ]
b The Templef, Lights lo i Which Building, Is, a Call, ward th eries wer Now place, Wo rows «
4 Anc breadth Oward th
- » This 1 ten Cub Chambers lome C aleries pr ngrh fron UY to walk
Vol. II
ap. XLII. EZ E made of Wood, but covered with Gold. the Tables of Shew-bread, and ſpake of that.
olies.
Holy of .
doors.
folding Doors, or two leaved Doors. ; ; 24 And the doors had two leaves 4 piece, two turning
leaves ; two Jeaves for the one door, and two leaves tor the other door.
the temple e, cherubims f and palm-trees, like as were
þ the face of the porch without 2. |
Carved &d The Doors of both Temple and Oracle. e Including the Holy of Holies alſo. f Vid. wer. 10. g I ſuppoſe theſe were Boards of more than an ordinary Thickneſs, which were faſtned to the great Beams, whoſe Ends came out beyond the Wall of the Porch, and probably were laid fo, as ro make a part of/an Arch overthe Entrance into the Gate, as we ſee over ſome Houſes, and as ſometimes under the Balconies ; and here alſo in theſe thicker Planks, 'tis like were ſome Ornaments. h Or above the Front of the Porch. z On the Court ſide of the Porch, that part that look'd outward.
26 And there were narrow & windows and palmtrees / on the one 2 ſide and on the other ſide, on the ſides of che porch, and pon the ſide-chambers of » the houſe,
and thick planks 0.
þ Vid. wer. 16. let. =. 1 See wer. 18. let. f. m On the North, and on the South ſide, as you enter in from Eaſt toward the Weſt; thus the ſides of the Porch outward were garniſhed. » Which were 30 1n 2 row, and three Stories high, vid. wer. 6. o Alike carved and beautified, and alike ftrengthening, and defending the places where they wereuſed, 0
CHAP. XLII..
A deſcription of the court with the chambers, 1 12. the uſe of them for the prirft and the holy things, 13----18. the meaſure of the out ward conrt, ly, 20.
1 "T"Hen a he brought me forth into the utter 5 court, the
way toward the north c, and he brought me
into the charaber 4 that was over againſt the ſeparate z
place, and which vas before the building toward the north f. -
s Affer a particular view of the Temple, and all its parts, with
the inmoſt Court, and all in ir, the Prophet is brought forth. 5 Cal. kd fo, in regard to that more inward, whence the Prophet now
nd cometh ; it is likely, if not certain, this was the Prieſts Court, which {ly had two others more outward, but becauſe the Prophet had been in cle one more inward than that of the Prieſts, he giveth the Name of
outer to this Court. c Through the North Gate by which he de. 20 ſcended into the Court, where the Stair-caſe was by which he went