he up into the Chambers built over the Pylaſters, and Arches, ſo that | | Underneath was a Cloyſter or Gallery. 4 Either the ſingular Number
Ine * fortheplural, or Chamber for the row of Chambers, or elſe into one of the many that were there. e Whether you take it for the Tem- et | ple it ſelf, or for that Building: equal to the Temple, on the Well oth | partof the Temple, ſtill this row of Chambers faced the North part ng + of ir. f The South Front of this Range of Chambers Ilook'd to the ule | North Front of che Temple, and it's that fide-Buildings, or to the | North Front of the ſeparate place. ne” Wi” 2 Before the length g of an hundred cubits was the ts WF north-door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. | | g The Temple of one hundred Cubits long and fifty broad, was ; 2 | on the South Proſpett of theſe Chambers, or poſſibly this North "ch | Door did give Entrance into Buildings that were one hundred Cubits hs | long, and fifty Cubits broad. racie
| 3 Over againſt the twenty bits þ which ere for the Inner court, and over againſt the pavement # which was
for the utter court, was gallery againſt gallery & in three ſories I,
hb The twenty Cubits ſpace of the inner Court, or Court of the- Templefaced the Sourth-EFront of this row of Chambers; their Southern Lights lookd into this ſpace, and to the North of the Temple. i Which was in the Prieſts Court, and on the North-ſide of this Building, into which Pavement the North Windows look'd. & That 5, a Gallery on the South part toward the inner Court, and a Gallery toward the Pavement Northward, and between the backsof theſe Gal- keries were Chambers. 7 Either in height, or elſe in three Ranks, as now placed, two Galleries on the ſides, and a Chamber in midſt ; or wo rows of Chambers, and one long Gallery in the middle,
4 And before the chambers 2 as a walk of ten cubits readth inward, a way # of one” cubit, and their doors toward the north 9.
m This row of Chambers had on the South-ſide or inward a Walk of ten Cubirs broad, which lay between the Wall on which theſe Chambers were built, and the twenty Cubir ſpace, poſſibly it mighr
lome Cloiſter running along the Wall on the inſide. » Before the
aleries probably was a Led ge of one cubit broad, running the whole *ngth from Eaſt to Weſt, called herea Way, thonot deſigned fo,
23 And the temple and the ſanctuary had two 4
25 And there were made c on them 4, on the doors of
made upon the walls; and here ere thick planks g upon | p
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5 Now the upper chambers ere ſhorter p: for the galleries q {| were higher than theſe, } than the lower |; Or, 1:2 eas of tri,
p At firſt view ir ſhould ſeem to refer to the length, but indeed ir rin refers to the height of the Chambers, of whichthe loweſt Charaber *** ©%- was higheſt pirch'd from the Floor to the Cieling, the ſecond lower 5: pirchd rhan the firſt, yet of greater height than the uppermoſt be- conſiſted
lower than the middle or loweſt according to Rule of Archite&yre. which directs that the upper Rooms take not up ſo much in their height as the lower, that the Weight of the Timber be not too heavy for the Walls.
6 For they were in three r ſtories, but had net pillars as the pillars s of the courts : therefore rhe building £ was raitned « more than the loweſt, and the middlemoſt from the ground.
r Built high one over another. «5 So thick and ſtrong as thoſe were, bur of the ſlenderer and weaker make. # The highctt Room of the Building « was laid at nearer diſtance than the middlemoſt from the loweſt, or than the Roof of the loweſt from the Ground.
7 And the wall x that 2vas without over apainſt the chambers y, toward the outward court & on the fore part of the chambers, the length thereof as fifty cubitsb.
x Not of the Chambers, but ſome Wall at diſtance from them - perhaps ſome Wall that might keep up a Terra(s-Walk. ; Therefore was Northward from the Chambers. z The Courr of the Men, or of . Iſrael, which is called utter with reſpe& to this, wherein this Building | ſtood, as this was called utter, wer. 1, and 3. with reſpe&t to the Courr that was more inward. a Which evidently ſhews, that the Wall of fifry Cubirs ſtood North from theſe Chambers. 5 Anſwerable to the length of this Building from Eaſt to Weſt.
8 For thelength of the chambers that were in the utter
c court as fifty Cubits : and lo 4, before the temple wer:
an hundred cubits. |
This Verſe gives us a Reaſon why the Wall over againſt the Cham.
bers was but fifry Cubits, it might not be more or leſs, becaul: 'twas
ro hold exa&t ſymmetry with theſe Buildings which ir confromed.
Poſſibly this Verſe may give ſome light ro the ſecond Verſe latter part.
c See wer. 1. let. 6b. and wer, 7. let. z. d. Some ſay the Angel, con-
dufting the Prophet from theſe North Chambers © the Souch, hit!
occaſion given him to takenotice of, and ro meaſure a ſecond time this
ſpace before the Temple; bur what if the Angel and the Prophet
were now on the Roof of this fifry Cubirs Building, as they ſ-em to
be wer, 5. meaſuring it, and thence the Angel might point to che
hundred Cubirſpace before the Temple, and bid the Prophet ro mind
it? The former moſt received, ſutes beſt with the 11:h and 2:45 Verſes.
os And || from under theſe chambers was || the entry || Or, from on the ealt-ſide {| as one goeth into them from the utter t>* place. coure, I! DT, 122
I ſuppoſe this Verſe deſcribes the Entrance into the South Cham. ****
bers, that it was on the Eaſt-point, and that whoſo would go into brought _ them muſt go up the Stairs (which probably were windiag Stairs) at | Or, as he the Eaſt-end of theſe Buildings, whoſe Front was towardsthe South, ©*”**
109 The chambers, e were in the thickneſs F of the wall
of the court toward the ealt, over againlt the ſeparare
place g, and over againſt the buiiding -.
e Galleries alſo with them of this South building now meaſured.
f Orthe breadth of that Wall of the Court which was Eaſtward, and as
an encloſure of the Building. g Which was Weſt iron this Building,
whoſe length lay North and South, and irs breadrh Eaſt and Weſt ; what this ſeparate place may be, vid. wer. I. kt. e. þ Vid. wer. 1. ler. 7,
1: And the way # before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were*toward the north, as long as they, .and as broad as they; and all their goings / our were both according to thelr faſhions »», and according to their doors ».