25 26 for the other door. And there were made on them, even on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls: and there were beams of wood upon the front of the porch without. And there were narrow windows and palm-trees, on this side and on that side, on the sides of the porch, and on the sidechambers of the house; and also beams. CHAPTER XLII. * the way 1 Then he led me forth to the outer court, toward the north; and he brought me to the rooms which were before the separate place, and which were before the *The way was the way. 25. -And there were made.-I suppose "wy to be the true read ing, as v. 11, 19. wy. Houb. -on the doors. In foribus pugnam ex auro, solidoque elephanto, Virg. Georg. -upon the walls.—See v. 17-20. 1 Kings vi. 32, 35. -beams of wood.—The heads of the beams which supported the second story appeared in the front of the vestibule. Villalp. 26. -on this side &c.—Compare c. xl. 10, 16. -and also beams.-Continued along the stories of the side-chambers. Or we may render, and on the beams. Sc. were palm-trees. 1. —outer court.—Outer with respect to the temple itself. The court of the priests is meant. Houbigant. But 6. MS. Vat. reads “the inner court." -the rooms.—bп, 1 MS. 6. But the singular may be used distributively. In ó. MS. Al. and Ar. the reading is "fifteen rooms." See c. xl. 17. --the separate place.-See c. xli. 12. 2 building toward the north. The length was an hundred cubits toward the north-gate; and the breadth was fifty 3 cubits. Before the gates which belonged to the inner court, and before the pavement which belonged to the outer court, were side-buildings against side-buildings in 4 three stories. And before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, and of an hundred cubits long; and 5 their doors were toward the north. Now the upper rooms were shortened: for the galleries took of those more than 6 of the lowest and middlemost of the building. For they were in three stories; but had not pillars, as the pillars of the courts: therefore they were straitened more than the 7 lowest, and than the middlemost from the ground. And the building.-The wall of separation. 2. The length.-In ó. MS. Vat. and in Arab. - is omitted in the beginning of the verse. is also omitted before 1 in ó. Ar. and Ar. seems to read, for пn, b, as the rendering is 1. The sense is much more clear and natural if we render as in the text, or, "toward the north." The whole length of the rooms will then be meant; the breadth of which was fifty cubits; according to the length of the whole gateway, or entrance, described, c. xl. 15, 21. 3. - -the gates.—y, 6. both the outer and inner gate. See c. xl. 15, 18, 38. But Syr. yw, the gate. -side-buildings.—These buildings looked two ways; toward the temple, and toward the pavement of the outer court: c. xl. 17. and of an hundred cubits long.-See ó. Syr. Houb. 4. 8 ad This was the length of the outer enclosing wall of the area in which the temple stood. .Syr וארך -doors were toward the north.-And therefore the angel brought Ezekiel to the outer court towards the north. 5. took of those.—1, did eat, 4 MSS. 1 marg. and Bibl. Ven. ann. 1518. marg. 6. had not pillars.-To support the galleries; but the breadth of these was taken out of the middle and upper rooms themselves. See Bernard L'Ami in Mr. Lowth. -they were straitened.-17, Houb. Or, Sepositum quid erat ab eis præ &c. as for the wall that was without, overagainst the rooms, toward the outer court which was before the rooms, the 8 length thereof was fifty cubits. For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; also of those opposite to them: in all an hundred cubits. And from the bottom of these rooms was the entry from the east, as one came to them from the outer court. 9 10 In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the south, before the separate place, and before the building, were 11 also rooms. And the way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north, as long as they and as broad as they; and all their goings out were both according to their fashions and according to 12 their doors. For in like manner were the doors of the rooms which were toward the south: there was a door in 7. without.-In the court of the priests. -fifty cubits.-Equal in length to one wing of the rooms ; and perhaps divided by steps. 8. —also of those opposite to them.- by, is the reading of ó. See Houbigant. The length of the other wing was also fifty cubits. Between these wings might be a gateway. These wings, divisions, or ranges, of apartments, if detached from each other, must extend themselves on each side somewhat beyond the wall of one hundred cubits which enclosed the temple. C. xli. 13, 14, 15. 9. And from the bottom.-Read and Houbigant. own with Masora, MSS. —from the east.—The length of the building was east and west; and the stairs were placed at the east end. -the outer court.-See on v. 1. -toward the south.-Read 17 777 with 6. Ar. 10. 11. —before them. one MS. and bibl. Ven. marg. -and as broad as they.-1, 6. and all.1, 6. "they were as long as they and as broad as they, and according to all their goings out, and according to their fashions, and according to their doors." 12. For in like manner were the doors.-Perhaps we should read 13 14 the head of the way, even the way before the wall which looked eastward as one came to them. Then he said unto me, As for the north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are holy rooms where the priests that approach unto Jehovah shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, both the offering of flour, and the sinoffering, and the trespass-offering; for the place is holy. When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there shall they lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to the place which belongeth unto the people. Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. 16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed five hundred cubits, even with the measuring reed round 15 * H. wind. -which looked., 1 MS. The chambers on the south side, like their corresponding ones on the north side, were entered from the east. 13. -and the south rooms.-The ancients, except Chald. read , and the vau may have been omitted from the similarity of the preceding letter. -the most holy things.-See Lev. vi. 17. xxiv. 9. 14. —enter therein.—From the inner court toward the temple. For there must have been an inner access to these rooms; as well as the outer one at the east ends, mentioned v. 9, 12. 15. 16. ·wherein.-, 4 MSS. 1 originally, and in 2 the ↑ is on a rasure. -measured it.-The side on which the gate stood. for p with Arab. and with ó. v. 17, 20. See Cappellus. MSS. and edd. establish the reading of won. Houbigant observes that, according to Josephus, the circuit of the mount on which the temple stood did 17 about. He measured the north side five hundred 18 cubits, with the measuring reed round about. The south 20 + side he measured, five hundred cubits, with the mea19 suring reed round about. On the west side he measured five hundred cubits, with the measuring reed. On the four sides he measured it: it had a wall round about, five hundred cubits long, and five hundred cubits broad; to make a separation between the holy and the prophane place. * H. wind. + H. wind. H. wind. H. winds. not exceed four stadia, or five hundred Roman paces; and that therefore one side could only measure one hundred and twenty-five paces. See Ant. xv. xi. 3. Now 125 paces amount to 625 feet, at 5 feet to a pace; and 500 cubits, supposing each equal to a foot and a half, amount to 750 feet; which is itself too large a measure for Josephus's dimensions of the mount. Yet from c. xliii. 12, it appears that the mount admitted of the mensuration here given. Josephus speaks of the πepißoλos built by Solomon; if Houbigant refers to the place which I have quoted: and, B. J. v. v. 1, he makes the whole compass, comprehending Antonia, to be six stadia. "The Roman stade was 625 Roman feet, which Josephus takes to be equal to the Jewish feet, or small ells, without considering the difference which may be between them." Michaelis. 18, 19. round about.-'0 пn, 2 MSS. 1 2 MSS. and 2 others originally. Vulg. reads '10, joining it to v. 18. ns, 1 MS. 20. —measured it.—The holy place. a wall. This was the outermost wall of circuit. primo The vision in c. xl, xli, xlii, seems designed to shew that, if the Jews repented of their iniquities and idolatries, their temple should be rebuilt, and their worship according to the Levitical law should be restored. The buildings might at first be erected after the general plan here described, without deviation from it, though without ability to execute every part: and the whole might afterwards resemble it in many respects, though never exactly. However the Jews should have proceeded conformably to the directions here given. |