EXPOSITION. Ver. 9-18.-Tm: OOUBT BEPOBE THE T.t.- number), and their sockets, twenty (in nwn- BERl,ACLE. The description of the altar is (as ber, shall be) of bronze." The hook& of the aJready observed) naturally followed by that pillan are loops whereto the curtains were to be attached. See eh. llXvi. 32. Their 11lleta of the court which was to cont.a.in it, and in It is now generally a.greed that the word used "·hich it W86 to be the most conspicooll6 designates "connecting rods," which joined object. 'l'his is given with great cleamess in the pillars at the top, and probably helped to ten verses, and presentE scucely any problem support the "hangings." These, and the for solution. The court was an oblong square, "hooks," were of solid silver. Ver. 11.-The north side of the court is three hundred feet in length and seventy-five to be exactly similar to the south in all in breadth. It was enclosed by curt.a.ins, hung respectE. on sixty pillazs, placed at intervals of seven Ver. 12.-The west side is also to be feet and a half apart. The pillazs were con- similar, except that it is to be half the length, nected by rods, and ew:h of them fitted into a fifty cubits-and, therefore, requires only half socket. There was bot one entrance, which the number of pilhrs and sockets. Ver. 13.-The breadth of the oourt on the was at the eastern side, midway in it. It was east Bide eutward. Rather, "in front toward thirty feet wide, and had its own cori.e.ins the east." The &bbinical tradition was that and its own pillars. These curt.a.ins were of Adam found himseli on his creation fronting similar mat.erial with those at the entrance to towards the east, and had consequently the the tabemacle , bot the hangings roond the sooth on his right, the north on his left, and the west behind !rim. Hence, they said, the rest of the coort were merely of fine white foor card.in.al points received the names of linen. kedem, "in front" (the east); ydmin, "the Ver. 9.-Thau. llhalt malm the eomt. right hand" (the south); 'a.Ah6r, "behind" &ther, "a court." For the I01lih Bide IIOuth- (the west); and sliemol, "the left hanJ" (the ward. Bather," For the sooth side, opoo th_e north). For this 116e of all foor words, see right." Com.pare the comment on eh. :U:VL Job :u.iii. 8, 9. 18. Jla.ngingB. The word osed is a rare ~ne Ver. 14. - The ha.nginga of one Bide. in this sense, qoite different from those which Literally, "of one shoulder." The two have been employed far " corte.ins " or " hang- extreme parts of the east side, between the ings" previoosly (eh. xxvi. I, 7, 86). The entrance (ver. 16) and the comers are thus LXX. tran.elat.e by /,rr la " sails ; " and the named. They were to extend on either side a Jewh commentators believe a loosely woven distance of fifteen cubits, and to have their Slill-clot.h to be intended. J'iml twined linen. cortains suspended to foor pillars, one of them Se,- the comment on eh. llXvi. 1. being the comer pillar, which is not counted. Ver. H.1.-J.nd the twenty pill&n thereof, Hence the pillars ue said to be three et£, Literally, •· And 1!;; pillars, twenty (in Ver. 16.-:ror the gate. 'I.ue word used ia CTT. XXVTI. !l-18.] Tlrn TIOOK OF EXODUR. 273
I he common one for " gate ; " but here it Ver, 17.-J'illeted with silver. Rat.her rnthcr signifil'JI "entranco." Strictly speok- "joined hy silver rod•." See the comment 0 ~ ing, there wBB no "gate;" the worshippers ver. 10. '~hoy _wero also to have thr,ir ctLpitul, cnterecl hy drawing BBide the curtain. This overln1d with silver (eh. xxxviii, 17). wru, a hanging of similar material, colours, Ver.18.-Thelengthand the breadth of the nncl workmanship to thnt which hung in front court ho.d been already implied in what hod of the tnbernnclo (eh. xxvi. 3G). By its con- been snid of the extemtLI sr-reen-work or 1,rru,t with tho whito linen screen which sur- "hangings" (vers. 9 on,! 12). What 'th11 rounded tho rest of tho court, it would show verse ndds is the height of the pillars, which vory clenrly where men were to enter. WBB fivo cubits, or seven feet six inches.