Chap: Of the Temple & Synagogues of the Jews Isaac Newton c. 23,724 words Newton Project London 2013 Newton Project, University of Sussex

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 Yahuda Ms. 26Chap. 1: Of the Chronology of the first ages of the Greeks & Latines [Yahuda Ms. 26.2] A number of jotted calculations in the margins of the manuscript have been omitted from the transcription. Yahuda Ms. 26.3, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel IsraelJerusalemNational Library of Israel Yahuda Mss Yahuda Ms. 26.3 SL225

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 post-1710 England English Holograph ReligionChronology Transcribed by Micah Anshan Code audited byMichael Hawkins Reviewed by John Young
1r Chap. Of the Temple & Synagogues of the Iews

The separate place & inner Court or Court of yethe Priests & the separate place were two equal squares wchwhich together made an area 100 cubits broad from south to north & 200 long & were divided separate separated only by the north rail. The inner court was bounded by a marble rail & in the center thereof stood the great altar. The separate place was westward & continued the The separate place was westward & conteined the house of the Temple & in the center of the inner court stood the Altar. All this was compassed on the north west with a wall & on the other three sides with a pavement upon wchwhich stood 50 cubits broad upon which stood the buildings for the Priests. The whole, madeing an area 200 cubits broad from south to north & 250 long, & was compassed with the outward court or court of the people wchwhich was 100 cubits broad on every side & this court was compassed on the west wthwith a wall & on the other 21,88 three sides with a pavement 50 cubits broad upon wchwhich stood the buildings where the sacrifices were baked & boyled & eaten by the people. All this made an area 500 cubits long & 500 broad & was compassed with a court or walk called the mountain of the house & this court was compassed with a wall six cubits broad & sigx high & 600 long on every side. And the cubit was about 21 or 22 English inches in length or two third six eleventh parts of a pendulum vibrating second, being an hand breadth bigger then the vulgar cubit. And the Altar Thus the Altar stood in the center of the whole.

In the buildings of both courts over against the middle of the Altar eastward northward & southward were Gates 25 cubits broad between the buildings & 50 long cross the pavements. These Every gate had each of them two thresholds each of them six cubits broad & 10 long the doors of the Gates being 10 cubits wide & 20 high. & between the thresholds was the distance of 28 cubits, wchwhich made the whole length of the gates 40 cubits besides the Porch wchwhich was 10 cubits more. The Porch & yethe space between the thresholds was 13 cubits broad wide & on either side of the space were the three Posts or Pillars each six cubits square & twenty high wthwith arches five cubits wide between the Posts all wchwhich made up the 28 cubits. These arches led into double cloisters under a double building on either side the of every Gate, supported by three rows of marble pillars butting upon the middle of the square Posts so that every and single cloyster was there were two walks each in the cloysters each 11 cubits broad between yethe axes of the pillars. The Gates & buildings of both courts were alike & faced one another, the Porches of the Gates & the cloysters of the buildings looking towards yethe peoples court. The pillars on yethe backside of the cloysters adhered to marble walls wchwhich bounded the cloysters & supported the buildings. All the buildings of the Temple were three stories high, & were supported in the two stories above the cloysters were supported by a row of cedar beams or pillars standing in the chambers second & third stories above the middle row of yethe marble pillars. These buildings On either side of every Gate of the peoples court were 5 conteined 5 exhedræ or large chambers on a floor running in length from the Gates towards the corners of the court,, in all sixty chambers, where the people ate the sacrifices, & at the ends of these buildings in the four corners of this peoples court were little courts 40 cubits square for stair cases to the buildings & for & kitchens to boile & bake the sacrifices. Of yethe Porters the stair case being & the kitchin being 30 cubits broad & the staircase 10. They went up from the mountain of the house to the Gates of the peoples court by seven steps & from the peoples court to yethe Gates of the Priests court by eight steps & on either side of these inner Gates of the Priests Court were single Exhedræ like & equal to those in the like the Exhedræ in the outward court but subdivided into smaller rooms for the great officers of the Temple & Princes of the Priests.

In the eastern Gate of the Mountain of the House sat a court or council of 23 Elders to do justice. In the eastern Gate of the Peoples Court sat a higher Council of 23 Elders. & there also the King ate the sacrifices. I The eastern gate of the inner court & the Exhedra on either side of it were for the Sanhedrim or supreme court of 70 Elders & for yethe high Priests Every Gate had two doors ten cubits wide & twenty high. The Posts of the doo & thresholds of yethe doors were 6 cubits broad & between the buildings in the

The Temple looked eastward & stood in a square court called the separate place & before it stoodstood be the Altar in the Center of another square court called the inner Court & Priests court of the Priests & these two courts bring were distinguished only by a marble rail & together made an area 200 long from west to east & 100 cubits broad.

The buildings on either side of the Gates of the Priests court being were only 3712 cubits long & conteined each of them one great chamber in a story like & this was subdivided into smaller rooms for the great Officers of the Temple & Princes of the Priests & in the south east & northeast corners of the court were kitchings & staircases to the buildings for the Officers like those in the peoples court.

In yethe eastern Gate of yethe peoples court sat a court of judicature composed of 23 Elders. In yethe The eastern Gate of the Priests court wthwith the buildings on eitherseither side was for the High Priest & his Deputy the Sage & the sanhedrim or supreme court of judicature composed of 70 Elders. The pile of Chambers building or Exhedra To attend in their ministries; He that opened the Gates in the morning to begin the service & shut them in the evening when the service was done & that end received the keys of the Amanholim & returned them so soon as he had done his duty; He that visited the night watches; He that by a Cymbal called the Levites to their stations for singing; He that appointed the Hymn & set the tune; & they & He that took care of the shew bread. There weralel also officers who took care of the perfume, the Veil & the Wardrobe of the Priests. The outward court he left unbuilt & in its stead he walled in an area for yethe people te on yethe eastern side of yethe sanctuary 100 cubits long & broad & 200 long from west to east & 200 long. All this taking an area 200 cubits broad from north to south & 300 long had the altar in the center & kitchins in the four corners & buildings running east & west between the kitchins for the uses of the Priests & people, And as the on & gates in the buildings as I seem to gather from by comparing His Solomons Temple with Herods. In the buildings there were two gates over against the Altar as before & one in yethe wall wchwhich parted the inner court & yethe peoples court. And as the we outward court of Solomons Temple had three Gates so had the peoples court in Zerubbabels, one in the middle of the eastern wall for the Prince & one in the southern side & one in yethe northern for the people, & one in the middle of the eastern wall of the Prince. All this was compassed wthwith a walk wchwhich was 10 cubits broad wchwhich was called the intermural space & answered to the mountain of the house in Solomons Temple & therefore this walk was compassed wthwith a wall six cubits broad & six high. This wall was called Chjil. When the ancients of Israel saw the foundations of this Temple was laid, & how little it was in comparison to Solomons Temple they wept. After this Temple had stood about 200 years Simeon Iustus repaired it & built from the foundations the double height the high fortress of the wall about the Temple (Eccles. 50) that is he compassed the outward court wthwith a double building upon cloysters on the eastern side & with a wall on the other three sides & this inclosure was the court of the Gentiles. And its to be conceived that the four Gates or doors wchwhich Solomon made in the western wall of the mountain of the house were now made in the western wall of this court. When this Temple had stood 150 years longer the enemies of the Maccabees built a castle in the northern western or side of the Gentiles court, wchwhich coming into the hands of Maccabees they dwelt in it was inhabited they dwelt in it & enlarged it & extended it from the northwest corner of this court to the northern end of the double building. And at length Herod – – – – to go in & out. But the architects of Herod having no knowledge of Solomons Temple made many alterations without regard to that structure. Herod made many alterations to Zarubbabads temple. He built the The Porch of his Herods Temple was 100 cubits long from north to south. & 100 or 120 high. & extended 11 cubits into yethe peoples Priests court & a cloystered building extended 11 cubits into it on the other eastern margin so this court was but 28 cubits from west to east.. The buildings for yethe Priests stoostood upon but one row of Marble pillars, the outward cloyster being filled up wthwith chambers & upon yethe Eastern margin of the Priests court was a single building upon a single cloyster 11 cubits broad, The Gates had no porches & were each of them 32 cubits in the front & yethe so that the separate place was 111 cubits from east to west & the Priests courts but 78. The buildings for the Priests were but upon but one row of marble pillars the outward cloyster being filled up wthwith chambers, The Gates were & they extended to the very western wall of the separate place the kitchins being removed thence into the peoples court. & they conteined four equal gates at equal distances On either side of the courts & of the separate place & four equal Exedræ on the western sides of the Gates & two Kitchins as the case end every gate being 32 cubits in front & every Exhedra 23, & every Kitchin 39 besides in all 298 cubits besides the thickness of the wall at either end: & the length of yethe separate place & of the priests court & peoples court between the buildings & between yethe kitchins was from south to north being 135 cubits & the buildings being 3212 cubits broad more on either side. The two Eastern gates one on either side opened into a walk 10 cubits broad through wchwhich the people went into their court & returned. The two 2r the eastern side of yethe inner court was for the High Priest & his Deputy the Sagan. & the Sanhedrim or Supreme Council of 70 Elders. The Exhedra on the eastern side of the southern Gate was for the Priests who had the oversight of the charge of the Sanctuary & treasures thereof. And these were first two Catholikim who were Secretaries & high Treasurers to the high Priest & & secrataries stated & examined prepared all dets & accounts to be signed & sealed by him; them seven Amarcholim who were equal to one another in dignity & authority & kept the keys of the Gates of the Temple & of the Treasuries & had the direction appointment & oversight of all things in the Sanctuary; then two three Girbarim Treasurers or Receivers of the publick money who or Treasurers who kept the holy vessels & the publick money & received & disposed of such summs of pa as were brought in for the service of the Temple All these wchwhich together with the High Priest made the supreme Council of the Temple for managing the treasures affairs thereof the Temple. The Exhedra on the eastern side of the northern Gate was for the Priests who had the oversight of the charge of the Altar: & daily minnesterial service of the Temple. For the sacrifices were killed on the northern side of the Altar & fleaedflayed & cut in pieces & salted in this northern gate. And these Officers were he that received money of the people for purchasing things for the sacrifices Doves, Pigeons, Wine Oyle Flower &c] for the sacrif & gave out Tickets for the same; they he that upon sight of the Tickets delivered the things wines flower & oyles purchased; he that presided over the lots whereby every Priest attending on the Altar had his duty assigned; he that upon sight of the tickets delivered out yethe Doves & Pidgeons purchased he that administered physick to the Priests attending, he that was overseer of the waters; he that called upon the Priests to attend & perform their service, he that visited the night watchers. he that called the Levites to their stations by a cymbal, he that set yethe tuner to the hymn, they that took care of the shew bread the Perfume, the Veil, & the wardrobe of the Priests & some others Officers. ∥ The Exhedra on the western side of the court southern Gate & that on the western side of the northern gate were for the Princes of the 24 courses of the Priests, one Exhedra for twelve of the Princes & the other exhedra for the other twelve. And on the pavement on either side of yethe separate place were other buildings without cloysters for the 24 courses of the Priests to eat the sacrifices & lay up their garments & the most holy things. The Each pavement was being 100 cubits long & 50 broad & had buildings on either side of it 20 cubits broad with a walk 10 cubits broad between them. The building next wchwhich bordered upon the separate place was 100 cubits long & that next the peoples court but 50, the other 50 cubits westward being taken up wthwith a stair case & Kitchin. These buildings were three stories high, & 20 cubits broad in the lower story. And the middle story was narrower in the front then the lower & the upper still narrower to make room for galleries. For they had galleries before them, & under the Galleries were closets for laying up the holy things & the garments of the Priests. & the holy things If these Chambers were 1212 cubits long there would be in all 72 chambers, one in every story for every course of Priests The two next gates opened over against the middle of the Altar & were for the Priests. The two next opened over against yethe Porch & the two last over against the most holy place. & were only Between the western & yethe Temple was 10 cubits, the length of the Temple 100 cubits, the breadth of the Priests court 78 cubits the breadth of eastern Portico 110 cubits, the breadth of the walk above mentioned 10 cubits, the breadth of the peoples courts 89 cubits Total wall of yethe peoples court a cubit, the breadth of the court 88 cubits. In all 298 cubits besides the thickness of the wall at either end. The men were admitted into the eastern margin of the Priests court & therefore that margin was called the court of Israel. Both men and weomens court & therefore that were admitted into the peoples court & that court was called the court of the weomen. The wall Chaijil was built six cubits broad & above six cubits high, & was compassed with a walk 10 cubits broad from whence they went down by steps to another walk called Soreg wchwhich wchwhich was only two cubits high & compassed the whole being about 300 cubits long from north to south & 400 long from west to east. And all the area within this wall was now consecrated so by the concession of Herod that no unholy person might enter into it upon pain of death. For Herod doubled the area of the Temple. To this wall heathens might enter & no further upon pain of death. 2vleft – had the altar in the center & conteined three equal courts, the separate place the Priests court & the peoples court each 100 cubits broad from west to east & about 135 long between the buildings or 200 including the buildings. The form of these buildings is not recorded, excepting that the Temple was 60 cubits high & 60 broad (including yethe W. chamber & ytthat the buildings of the Priests courtes courts those those of yethe were with three rows of marble pillars & a row of Cedar pillars beams as in Solomons Temple, & by consequence (in conformity to that Temple) the courts had Gates in the middle of their sides Southward & northward, & the buildings of the separate place were without cloysters & had kitchins at the western ends, & a walk 10 cubits broad before them distinguished by wthwith a walk from the separate a walk between the walk & the separate place to . [And the peoples court had kitchins on the four corners & Gates between yethe kitchins & and buildings on the western side but was distinguished only a walk to distinguish it from yethe people Priests court only by a walk [& on the other three sides had Galleries & kitchings in the four corners &] & on the other three sides buildings wthwith kitchings in the the four corners] And the Priests court had gates over against the altar as] & the peoples court had kitchins in the four corners & only a wall on the western side, the kitchins in the western corners adjoyning to the buildings of the Priests (as in Solomons Temple) & being for the great Officers of yethe Temple & those in the eastern corners for the people. That is, the compassed it wthwith compass wall Chajil. This was He compassed the whole building of Zerubbabel with a walk 10 was 6 cubits broad & therefore answered to the wall about yethe mountain of the house in Solomons Temple, & a walk 10 cubits br The whole building was compassed of Zerubbabel with a walk 10 cubits broad & the walk with this wall & the wall was ten six cubits broad & therefore the wall answered to the wall about so lon the mountain of the house in Solomons Temple & the walk answered to the mountain of the house. This wall was ten cubits high at yethe Eastern end side of yethe , but on the other three sides it was much higher & therefore is called the double height. They made it but ten cubits high on the eastern side that they might see the burning of the red cow & He goat. and the becoming becomingbecoming High Priest Governò & being High Priests & Governours & at length kings of the Iews they built it like a royal palace & extended it in the together with the eastern portico of the one extending it from the north west corner of the outward court to the north together with the eastern side of the outward Court called Solomons Porch. This Porch or Po. was a double building upon three rows of pillars as in Solomons Temple & had a gate in the middle looking directly into yethe Temple & the castle was built in the north west corner of the outward courthcourt & extended southward to the en north end of the P said Porch when they joyned. – Herod also made the area of the sanctuary double to what it was before compassing the whole with a stone rail called Soreg two cubits high & about 50 distant on all sides from the buildings of the sanctuary, so as to be about comprehend an area 300 cubits broad from south to north & 400 long. All this area was consecre made holy so that no heathen mighmight enter into it upon pain of death. And the grownd without the wall Soreg was now the Gentiles court & the mountain of the house. The wall Chajil was comp Herods Architects having no knowledge of Solomons Temple varied from it much more then the Architects of Zerubbabel had not. For they Herod made the Porch of the Temple 100 cubits long from south to north. & extend They He took away 11 cubits from the Priests court on the eastern & western sides, extending advancing the Porch of the Temple 11 cubits into the western margin of this court & building a one raising a single building upon a single cloyster 11 cubits broad on yethe eastern margin of the court. They He built this court with but one row of marble pillars filling up the outward cloyster wthwith chambers. They He made the gates 32 cubits broad in the front & the exhedræ but 23. & continued the building of Gates & cloisters They He made the buildings on either side the separate place, of the same form wthwith those on either side yethe Priests court, there being 4 Gates & 4 Exhedræ on the sou alternately on the south & side as many on the north side of the courts & seperate place, & all the kitchins being at the east end of all these buildings leaving no room the whole length of the 300 cubits on either side the separate place & the courts of the priests & people being taken up wthwith four equal Exhedræ & four equal Gates changed alternately & two kitchins the east end as such & the thickness of the walls at both sides The two eastern Gates opened in were for the people on either side opened into a walk 10 cubits broad wchwhich led into yethe peoples court & , the two next Gates opened over against the altar & were for the Priests the two next opened over against the Porch of the Temple & the two last over against the most holy. place & in the middle of the eastern side of the Peoples court was a Gate of Corinthian copper brass wchwhich was opined only for the Prince. The altar was compassed wthwith a little rail a cubit broad & at the distance of 50 cubits distance from its center northward & southward inclusively & 28 eastward inclusively. And the men of Israel had access into yethe eastern margin of yethe Priests court as far as to this rail, but the weomen had access only into the Peoples court. Whence the eastern margin of the Priest court 22 cubits broad was called yethe court of Israel & the peoples court was called the court of yethe weomen. To keep the Gentiles at a greater distance there was a rail on an area about 50 cubits broad was wall 3r
Chap. Of the Temple and Synagogues of the Iews. The inner court of the Temple or court of the Priests & the separate place were two equal squares wchwhich together made an area one hundred cubits broad from south to north & two hundred long. The inner court was bounded by a rail of marble & in the center – thereof stood the altar. The separate place adjoyned to it westward & conteined the house of the Temple. All this was compassed on the west with a wall & on the other three sides with a pavement fifty cubits broad upon wchwhich stood the buildings for the Priests. The whole made an area 200 cubits broad from south to north & 250 long, & was compassed with the outward court or court of the people, which was an hundred cubits broad on every side. And this court was compassed on the west with a wall & on the other three sides with a pavement fifty cubits broad upon wchwhich stood the buildings for the people. All this was called the sanctuary & made a square area five hundred cubits long & five hundred broad called the sanctuary & was compassed with a court or walk called the mountain of the house & this court was compassed with a wall six cubits broad & six high & six hundred long on every side. And the cubit was about 22 inches of the old Greek foot being an hand breadth or the sixt part of its length bigger then the vulgar cubit. ∥ Thus The altar stood in the center of the whole, & – – – – In the buildings of both courts over against the middle of the altar eastward northward & southward were gates 25 cubits broad between the buildings & 40 long wthwith a Porch of 10 cubits towards the peoples court, wchwhich made the whole length 50 cubits cross the pavements. Every Gate had two thresholds six cubits broad & ten long doors one at either end ten cubits wide & twenty high The Posts' & Thresholds of the doors were six cubits broad & 28 cubits distant, the whole length of the gates being 40 cubits besides the Porches of the Gates wchwhich were 10 cubits more. The Porch & the space within the Gates between the doors were 13 cubits wide & The Gates within were between the doors were 28 cubits long & 13 wide between the doors & between the thresholds & 13 cubits wide, & on either side of on either side of this space were three Posts each six cubits square & 20 high, with arches five cubits wide & six long between them all wchwhich Posts squares & arches took up the 28 cubits between the doors & being added to the 13 cubits made the breadth of the Gates 25 cubits. These Posts were hollow & had narrow rooms in them for these with narrow windows for the Porters, & a step before them a cubic broad, & the walls of the Porches being six cubits thick were also hollow for several uses. At the eastern Gate called yethe kings Gate w six porters – – – – to yethe city. the arches in the sides of the gates led into The arches led into cloysters under a double building on either side of every Gate, supported by three rows of marble pillars wthwith butted upon the middles of the square Posts, so that there were two walks in the upon the pavements there were cloysters each 11 cubits broad between the axes of the pillars. The Gates & buildings of both courts were alike & faced one another, the cloysters of all the buildings & the porches of all the Gates looking towards the peoples court. The row of pillars on the backside of the – cloysters adhered to marble walls wchwhich bounded the cloysters & supported the buildings. All Then buildings of the Temple were three stories high above the cloysters & were supported on these stories above the cloysters in those middle of the chambers stories by a row of cedar beams or pillars of cedar standing above the middle row of the marble pillars. These buildings on either side of every Gate of the peoples court were distinguished into five Exhedræ or large – piles of chambers. on a floor on either side of running in length from the Gates towards the corners of the court, there being all thirty Exhedræ & in the three stories of every Exhedra three large chambers or large chambers & in all the stories of all yethe exhedræ 90 chambers, where yethe people ate the sacrifices. where the people ate4r The beleiving Iews observed the Law [not as necessary to salvation but] because the it was good & they had covenanted with God to observe it: but the beleiving Gentiles were not obliged to enter into that covenant as necessary to salvation but only to keep the precepts of the Sons of Noah. [of from things offered to Idols & from & from things entangled & from fornication] If they entered into that covenant as necessary to salvation they made void the faith in Christ. The children of beleiving Iews were in yethe same case wthwith Timothy. It was might be was in their choise whither they would enter into that covenant or not. The [Iews were discipuled only to Christ] the beleiving Gentiles were discipuled to God & Christ & the beleiving Iews the Holy Ghost & therefor the Iews to Christ & their Baptism was according in the name of all three or in the name of Christ alone.. The Iews had two sorts of Baptism, yethe one of cleansing the other of Proselytes. [The Baptism of beleivers was the baptism of proselytes, that of infants only of cleansing. [For the Iews be infants of Proselytes among yethe Iews were not baptised wthwith the baptism of Proselytes] For an infant could not be a proselyte till he came to years of discretion. The] The baptism of Proselytes was administred only to proselytes that of cleansing to proselytes & their children posterity. The Baptism of beleiving Christians is the baptism of proselytes. The beleiving Iews observed the law not as necessary to salvation but because it the law was good & they had entered into a covenant to observe it. Their children might enter into the same covenant as Timothy did, but perhaps they were not obliged to enter into it the beleiving Gentiles were not obliged to enter into it the covenant but only to keep the precepts of the sons of Noah. And if they entred into that it covenant as necessary to salvation they made void their faith in Christ. Two of those precepts were to abstein from things blood & from things strangled: for blood inclines to cruelty and strangling is a painfull death The Gen Iews admitted their Proselytes by circumcision & baptism, the Christians only by baptism. & The children of proselytes were born wthwithin yethe Church & under the law were circumcised like the children of the Iews but not baptised wthwith the baptism of proselytes, nor were they cleansed from original sin by many baptismbaptisms. For Original sin is like the sin of the second commandment God visits it upon the children unto many generations in this life tho the children be not actually have not actually sinned but in the next life will punish only the actual sinners. And therefore & to washes away the sin by baptism is to free men from the ill consequences of it in this world one of wchwhich is death. Yet may might the baptism of children by the symbo signe of a covenant among Christians as circumcision was among the Iews. The Iews were proselyted only to Christ the Gentiles to God & Christ & the Holy Ghost Spirit & therefore they Iews were baptised only in yethe name of Christ, the Gentiles in the name of all three, & the first Christians had one & the same God & one & the same Holy spirit with the ancient Church of the Iews, & the Christian religion before yethe calling of the Gentiles added nothing more to the Iewish then the the beleife that Iesus was the Messiah or Christ predicted by Daniel & to worship him as the Messiah or Lord & King of the Iews & Christians & then Mediator between God & Man.. God was to be worshipped as God Almighty & the Lord Iesus as the Christ the Lord the King or Lord. For to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things & we of him & one Lord Iesus by whom are all thing & we are by him. The following text to the end of f. 4v is written upside down. The converted Iews were all zealous of the law & were obliged to keep it, not as necessary to salvation but by reason of the covenant wchwhich they had made wthwith God by circumcission. But the Gentiles were not obliged to enter into this covenant. And when some Iews contended that unless they were circumcised they could not be saved, the Apostles & Elders of the Church at Ierusalem wrote to came together to consider this matter & concluded that they should not trouble those who were converted from among the Gentiles with any thing further then to abstein from pollutions of idols & from fornication & from things strangled & from blood. For the eating of blood inclines to cruelty & strangling is a painfull death. All this respected only the converted Gentiles. For Paul himself who most chiefly opposed the circumcision of the Gentiles observed the law & circumcised Timothy because he his mother was a Iewess, but could not be induced to circumcise Titus a GeekGreek, & argues in his Epistles not against observing keeping the covenant of circumcision but against entering into it as necessary to salvation. For he represents that the law is good & Proselytes who are circumcised are bound to observe it, but if they be circumcised upon a beleif that they cannot otherwise be saved Christ profits them nothing. And when a report was spread in Ierusalem that Paul taught the Iews to forsake the law And the last time that Paul was at Ierusalem (wchwhich was about 10 years before the destruction of that city the Elders Paul to Iames told him that all the converted Iews (wchwhich were many in thousands) were zealous of the law & heard were informed that Paul taught he taught yethe Iews wchwhich were among yethe Gentiles to forsake the law, & for therefore advised him to purify himself wthwith some other beleiving converted Iews who had a row, that all might know the falsness of the information & that he himself kept the law But as touching the Gentiles wchwhich beleive we have written, say yethe Elders, & concluded that they observe no such thing save only that they keep themselves from things offered to Idols & from blood & from things strangled & from fornication. The Iews were therefore bound to observe yethe law notwithstanding their conversion but their their children being circumcised before they were at years of discretion might be at liberty 4v At the eastern gate of the outward court called the kings gate were six porters at the southern gate called Huldah were four & at yethe north gate called Tedi were four. The King alone went in & out at the east gate & ate yethe sacrifices in this gate. The people went in & out at the South & north gates. There were also four gates or doors in the western wall of the mountain of the house. Of these the most northern called Shallecheth led to or yethe gate of yethe Causey led to yethe kings palace, the valley between being filled up wthwith a causey, Fo At this gate were The next Gate called Parbar led to the suburbs Millo, the third & fourth gates called Cesuppim led the one to Millo the & so did the third gate, & the fourth led to the city Ierusalem, there being steps down into yethe valley & up again to the city. At the gate Shallecheth were four porters & at the other three gates were six porters two at each gate at Parbar two & & at the other six gates were six porters two at each gate. wchwhich butted upon the middles of the square posts & ran along from thence upon the pavements from the Gates toward the corners of the courts, the axes of the pillars in the middle row being 11 cubits distant from the axes of the pillars in the other two rows on either hand, & the buildings joyning to the sides of yethe Gates. – The chambers were 5 cubits high in every story but & of broad in the lower story, six broad in the middle story & seven broad in yethe upper story. For the walls were built wthwith retractions of a cubit to rest the timber upon. Ezekiel represents the chambers a cubit narrower & by consequence the walls of the Temple a cubit thicker then they were in Solomons temple. There were 30 chambers in a story, in all 90 chambers, & they were 5 cubits high in every story. When Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed the first Temple, Zerubbabel by the commission of Cyrus & Darius Hystespis built another two stories high with one row of stare treasure chambers about it, & raised buildings for the Priests upon three rows of marble pillars & a row of cedar beams the double cloysters looking towards the Priests court. All this was calle took up an area 200 cubits long & 200 broad & was called the sanctuary. And The outward court he left unbuilt & & in its stead he co walled in an area for the people on the eastern side of the Sanctuary, 100 cubits broad from west to east & 200 long & And the two ends of this area were kitchins to boyle & bake the sacrifices, & in the middle between yethe kitchins was the court of yethe people called the weomens court & between this court & the sanctuary was a walk 10 cubits broad And the eastern margin of the sanctuary 2 cubits broad was called the court of Israel. All this make taking up an area 200 cubits broad from north to south & 300 long had the altar in its center & was compassed with a walk 10 cubits broad & the walk with a wall called Cajil 6 cubits thick & the wall wthwith another walk or parade 10 cubits broad, from whence they went down by steps to another little wall called Sornis wchwhich was 2 cubits high & compassed the whole. And all the grownd without this little wall was now henceforward called the mountain of the house 1 When this Temple had stood about 200 years Simeon the just repaired it & the wall of the city & built from the foundations the double height the high fortress of the wall about the Temple (Eccles. 50) that is the double building of the peoples court henceforward called the Gentiles court. And 300 years after him the Temple & Priests court & southern side of this double building were rebuilt more sumptuously by Herod wthwith several alterations But ✝2 And the court within the double building & without yethe wall song & within this double building was called the Gentiles court, & the mountain of the house & therefore] was still referred to yethe mountain of the house & called the Gentiles court the western wall of this court four doors were made as wchwhich have been formerly Solomon made in the western wall of the mountain of the house were now now by seven & Herod made in the western wall of the court of this court. because this court was now For this court was now become the mountain of the house. And after 300 years more the Temple & Priests court & southern side of the outward court were rebuilt more sumptuously by Herod with several alterations ✝4 For the Porch of the his Temple was 100 cubits broad long from south to north & 100 cubits broad high, & the buildings of yethe Priests were only upon two rows of Marble pillars, the outward cloyster being filled up with chambers, & there were four equal Gates at equal distances on either side yethe south side & north sides four on the of yethe Priests court & separate place, each 32 cubits broad & 3212 long wthwith & as many Exhedræ on the western side of the Gates. One Two Gates opened into the walk wchwhich ran between yethe sanctuary & yethe weomens court, two opened over against the Altar, two over against the Porch & two over against the separate most holy place, the exhedræ between yethe gates being 23 cubits long. ‡‡ Between the western cheeks of the two first Gates ran a single building upon a single cloyster 11 cubits broad wchwhich bounded the Priests Priests court eastward & in the middle of this building was a Gate leading out of the Priests court of Israel into the walk above mentioned wchwhich ran between the sanctuary & the weomens court And this cloyster wthwith a small mag the eastern margin of the Priests court was called the court of Israel because yethe men of Israel (but not the weomen) were admitted into it. And from the one that walk they went down by steps into the weomens court by steps. & The breadth length of the Priests court between the cloysters & of the weomens court between the kitchings from south to north being was 135 cubits, & the wall Chajil was being was 6 cubits thick, & the south side of the outward court stood upon 4 rows of marble pillars. all wchwhich being irregular is not material to describe be further described. But this Temple being irregular On the Eastern side of within the Priests court Upon the eastern side margin of the court of Israel 5r he was called Charan, the overseer or Bishop. [The Presbyters were not fewer then three nor more then 23. They judged the people of yethe synagogue both in civil & religious matters.] He was chosen by the unanimous suffrages of the whole congregation & if one man dissented the choise was not to be approved. For he was to represent the whole congregation & offer up the prayers of all wchwhich he could not do if any man was against him. From the Priests court they went up by steps to yethe Porch of the Temple House & the house was 20 cubits broad & 60 long within or 30 broad & 70 long including the walls where they were 5 cubits thick or 70 broad & 90 long including all the storechambers wchwhich compassed the House on three sides & were in two rows three stones high wthwith a walk 5 cubits broad between them, or 100 cubits long including also the Porch. & this length filled the separate place from east to west. In Solomons Temple there were ten candlesticks each with five seven branches: in this of the Apocalyps we are to conceive but one Candlestick with seven branches & seven lamps in the branches after the manner of the Tabernacle. The Synagogues of the Iews resembled their Temple. Every Synagogue had a Minister a court of Elders, a Minister, & Deacons. The Elders called also the Rulers of yethe Synagogue might not be fewer then three nor more then 23. They judged the people of the Synagogue or parish in matters both civil & religious, viz in cases of debt or injury or impeity in receiving of Proselytes, in deciding questions of debt or of making satisfaction for trespasses or injuries or who were to be admitted as Proselytes or to be excommunited & like wthwith what degree of excommunication or or absolved from excommunication & the like. The Synagogues of the Iews resembled their Temple & might be instituted in any city where there were ten men of leasure & learning in the law whereof three barebore yethe magistracy & were called Elders & Rulers of the Synagogue & Elders. This Council was to those of the the Synagogue what yethe great Sanhedrim was to those of the whole nation of the Iews. They judged of controversies, of crimes, of the admission of Proselytes, of excommunications of laying on of hands & the like. A fourth person was the publick minister of the Cour Synagogue. whose He supplied the place of the Amarcholim & his Office was to read the publick prayers & to take care of reading the Law & sometimes he preached when there were not other fit persons at hand to do it. He did not read the law himself but called any seven fit persons out of the congregation to do it every one reading a part & he inspecting the Reader & correcting him if he read any thing falsly or improperly: whence he was called חזן Chazan that is Επίσκοπος the Overseer or Bishop of the congregation. They called him also the Angel of the Church & the Lamp or Candle of the Lord. Because he was to offer up the prayers of the whole congregation he was chosen by the unanimous suffrage of the whole congregation because he was to offer up the prayers & if any one dissented the choise was not allowed. For he was to offer up the prayers of the whole congregation wchwhich he could not do if any one was against him. There were also in every Synagogue three or more Deacons to take care of the poor. And from this constitution of Synagogues the Bishop Presbyters & Deacons had their rise in the Christian Churches had their rise, For the first Christian the Christian Iews who first preached the Gospel forming their disciples into synagogues. For the Gospel was first preached in synagogues & the first Christian Presbyters were Rulers & Iudges in cities Titus was to ordein of & therefore Elders in every city the Apostle Paul saith, Let the Elders that rule well &c And again: Dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before yethe unjust & not before yethe Saints? And Titus was to ordein Elders in every city. And the Bishops were to take care of yethe Church of God & be able by sound doctrine to both to exhort & to convince gainsayers. The following text to the end of f. 5v is written upside down. that is the he double building upon cloisters on the Eastern side of the outward court & a wall along on the other three sides. And the four gates wchwhich Solomon made in the wall western wall of yethe mountain of the house were now made in the western wall of this court. For And about almost 200 years after, the Machibees built For this court was now reputed the mountain of the house & the Gentiles court: And 150 years after the a Tower Castle was built in the north west side angle of yethe outward court & being afterwards made the se inhabited by the Macchabees they built extended it from the north west corner of the outward court, to the northeast end of the double building. And at length Herod rebuilt the Temple with its courts more sumptuously & built from yethe foundations, the south side of the outward court upon four rows of double marble pillars in a very magnificent manner. And now the outward Court was compassed on the eastern side by the double Portico of Simeon, on the south side by the triple portico & of Herod on the north side by the castle wchwhich herod repaired & called Antonia, & on the north side west by a wall wthwith for gates or doors in it for the people to go in & out at. 5v The outward court he left unbuilt & in its stead in its stead admitted the men of Israel into the eastern border of the sanctuary wchwhich was thence called the court of Israel & was 22 cubits broad from north to south west to east, & on yethe eastern side of the sanctuary he walled in an area 100 cubits broad from west to east & 200 long for both men & weomen, wchwhich was therefor called the weomens court & in the two ends of this court were kitchins & to. Between this a All this The whole buildings area The whole being 200 cubits broad from north to south & 300 long was compassed wthwith a walk boyling & baking 10 cubits 10 cubits broad called spatium intermurale 10 cubits broad & yethe walk wthwith a walk called Cajil & the wall wthwith another walk or Parade 10 cubits broad from whence they descended by steps to a little wall called soreg wchwhich was 3 cubits high & compassed the whole. And all the grownd wthwithout this little wall was left open to the gentiles as prophane & called the mountain of the house. When the people ancients of Israel saw the foundations of this Temple laid & how much little the Weomens court was less then in comparison of the ani former outward court of the former temple, they wept. Ezra. III. 12 Haggai. 2. 3. When this Temple had stood about 200 years, Simeon Iustus the High Priest repaired it & built the from the foundations the dobledouble height the high fortress of the wall about the Temple (Eccles. 50) that is the double building of the yethe about wchwhich compassed yethe outward court henceford called the court of the Gentiles. And all this court without the bounds of the wall Soreg being still called could accounted towards the mountain of yethe house: Herod being called the man still reputed prophane & called the mountain of yethe yethe house & the court of the Gentiles, the four gates wchwhich were forme Solomon made in the western wall of the mountain of the house, wchwhich he built were now made in the western wall of the Gentiles court. Iosephus After this Temple had stood almost 300 years longer Herod rebuilt the sanctuary & the south side of the court of the Gentiles more sumptuously For the Porch of with some alterations. For the Porch of the Temple was 100 cubits long from south to north & 100 cubits high. And the buildings of the Priests were only upon one row two rows of marble pillars the outward cloyster being filled up wthwith Chambers & the porches of the Gates were omitted & had marbles Gates over against the separate plow. And the south side of the Gentiles court was built uppon 4 rows of marble pillars. In Herods Temple the building on either side of the separate place & of the courts of the Priests & people & weomen were 3212 cubits broad & 300 long, including their kitchins, & consisted of four equal Gates at equal distances without porches on the western sides of the Gates & kitchins & 4 equal Exhedræ, [There of wchwhich were between & then kitchins the separate place & other courts the gates & the fourth & the kitchins. The Gates were 32 cubits from & between the two rows of building was the space of were 135 cubits, wchwhich was the length of all the co the separate place & of a all the courts from north to south. The Gates were each of them 32 cubits in front & the Exhedræ 23 & the Kitchins 78, all wchwhich wthwith the walls of a cubit at either end took up the whole length of 300 cubits. Three of yethe Exhedræ were between the Gates & the fourth at yethe west end of the buildings. The two eastern Gates opened into a walk wchwhich. The doors of yethe Gates were 10 cubits wide & 20 high. The two eastern Gates opened into a walk 10 cubits broad between the sanctuary & yethe weomens court & were for yethe people to go into the court of Israel & the weomens court. returned back. From this walk they went down into the weomens court by semicircular steps. The two next opened over against the middle of the Altar & were for the Priests.; the two next opened over against the Porch of the Temple & the two last over yethe the separate most holy place & seem to have been contrived by Herod, being of no use superfluous & only for ornament. Between the western checks of the eastern Gates was a ran a single building 11 cubits broad upon a single cloyster wchwhich bounded the sanctuary & the court of Israel on the east: & in the middle of this building was a Gate 20 cubits broad & 40 high through wchwhich the people went into yethe court of Israel & returned back. And in the eastern wall of the womens court was another Gate of Corinthian brass wchwhich was opened only for the Prince. From the western wall of the sanctuary to the Temple were 10 cubits & including the thickness of the wall The separate place behind the Temple including the thickness of yethe western wall was 11 cubits brad. The length of the Temple 100 cubits The breadth of the Priests court 67. The breadth of the court of Israel 22 In Total 200 The breadth of the walk or intermural space 10 cubits. The breathbreadth of the womens court including the walls 90. cubits In all 300 cubits in So Here the separate place was 111 cubits from west to east, & but in the Solomons Priests court only 67: but in Solomons Temple they were each of them 100. [Herod making seems to have made the Porch of yethe Temple broader every biger then before & seems to have advanced it into the Priests court] Zerubbabel omitting a row of treasure chambers seems [made the Temple & tingle treasure chambers made the Temple narrower than before by 5 cubits on yethe south] everything including the treasure chambers & left an north & west: sides & so left an empty space between the Temple & yethe western wall of the separate space & Herod making the porch of yethe Temple every hic way bigger then before advanced it into the separate space Priests Court, made making & made the advancemtadvancement conformable to yethe other buildings. The court of the Priests & the court of Israel were distinguished only by a rail a cubit high & a cubit broad, & the rail compassed the altar on three sides the space within it being 98 cubits from north to south besides the thickness of the rail.6r Iadua was succeed in the High Priesthood by his son Onias & Onias by his son Simeon Iustus Iohanan the predecessor of Iadua slew his brother Iesus in the Temple Iespho kuntig. l. 11 c. 7. wchwhich occasioned Bagosel who commanded the forces of Artanerney to enter the Temple & lay a tribute upon yethe Iews & use them hardly for seven years. And either a Iohaniore bIoseph. ib. Iaduaa had a brother called Manasses who married Nicaso the daughter of Sanballet a Samantam [whom Darius had made Satrapa of Samaria ] & Manasses being for that reason denied access to the Templeaa Nehem. 13. 28. by Nehemiah, told Sauballet that he loved his daughter Nicaso very well but would was unwilling to lose yethe honour of the Priesthood on her account. And thereupon Sauballet built another Temple on mount Gerazim & made Manasses High Priest thereof Iphanan the son of Eliasib # Iadua dying was succeeded by his son Onias & he by his son Simon called Simeon Ioseph Antiq. l. 11. c 8 & l 12 c 2 yethe just Simon or Simeon who for piety to God & benefactions to his nation was surnamed the Iust. He dying & leaving a young son called Onias was succeeded by his younger brother Eleazer who appointed the old Testament to be translated into Greek for the library of Ptolomæus Philodelphus. And therefore Simeon yethe Iust was High Priest in the days of Alexander the great & Ptolomæus Lagi Seleucus Nicanor For the Iewish doctorsaa Ioma fol. & 69. 1 & Sepher Iuchasim & Sepher Hakkabbala & David Gans in Zemach David et Maimondes in Præf. Iad. Vide Historiam Doctorū Misnicorum p. 14 15, 16, 17 tell us that when Alexander came in anger to Ierusalem, Simeon yethe Iust was High Priest & met Alexander met him in his High Priest habit accompanied wthwith the Priests in white garments & was gratiously received by Alexander & led him to yethe Temple & when Alexander desired that his statue might be set up between the Temple & yethe Altar instead thereof granted that all the Iews born that year should be called Alexander Iosephus tells the same story of Iaddua taking Darius Nothus for Darius Codomannus & Iaddua for Simeon & Iosephus says that they shewed Alexander the prophesy of Daniel concerning the king of Greece, & that Alexander granted them that they should live after their own laws & be free from taxes every seventh year & that yethe Iews also who were in Babylonia & Media might also live after their own laws; & that Seleucus Nicanor (who succeeded Alexander in Syria) granted to yethe Iews the right of Citizens in the cities wchwhich he built & particularly in Antioch the metropolis, & Ioseph l. 11. c. 8 & l. 12. c. 3. that they might live there with the same right as the Macedonians & Greeks. And by the favour of these two kings it came to pass that he built Simeon Iustus repaired the Temple & the Priests court, & compassed the court of the people now called the court of the Gentiles with a double high building, & repaired the wall of the city; & for these benefactions was exceedingly honoured by the Iews. For these things are attributed to him by the Author of Ecclesiasticus Iesus yethe son yethe yethe author of Ecclesiasticus who wrote about 76 years after the death of Alexander. Simon the son of Onias the great High Priest in his days repaired the Temple House & in his days fortified the Temple (or Priests court built by Zerubbabel) And by him was built from yethe foundation the height of yethe double building & the High Structure encompassed of the circuit of the Temple In his days the cistern to receive waters being in compass as the sea was covered with plates of brass. He took care of the people that they should not He by his care preserved the people from ruin & fortified the city against a siege. How was he honoured in the midst of the people &c Ecclesiast. c. 50. The Temple of Solomon was double in dimensions to yethe [ Tabernacle It had an inner Court for yethe Priests & an outward for yethe people. The invardinward was 100 cubits broad & 200 long, a cubit being about 21 or 22 inches English. This court being distinguished into two squares, the house stood in the middle of yethe western square called the separate place & the great Altar stood in the middle of the Eastern. This court was compassed on yethe north side with a wall on yethe other three sides with the chambers of the Priests. On yethe East side were the chambers of the High Priest & principal & Sanhedrim Officers & On the north & south side of the of the Altar court of the Altar & in the northeast & southeast corners were the chambers of yethe 24 Princes of yethe Priests All these were built on three rows of Pillars. On the north & south side of the court of the House & in yethe northeast & southeast corners were the chambers where of yethe 24 divisions of the Priests where they eat the sacrifices & laid up their garments & these were built in three stories from the grownd without cloysters there being four Chambers in each story, & Galleries before the middle & upper story to go from chamber to chamber & under the Galleries little rooms to lay up the Garments of the Priests. All this building from out side to outside was 200 cubits wide broad & 250 long. This was compassed with the Court of the people an hundred cubits broad on all four sides between the walls on the west side & between the Gates on yethe other three sides. And this court was compassed with a wall on the west side & on yethe other three sides with the chambers where the people eat the sacrifices. These chambers like those of the Priests stood upon three rows of pillars which had two walks between them. The outward row was upon the outward wall of the Temple standing half way out of yethe wall. The middle row supported a partition wall which ran along between two rows of Chambers. One row looked inwards towards yethe Priests court the other outwards towards the fields. And the building was of three two stories one of yethe cloysters, the other two of chambers above the cloisters. And over against the The whole on yethe outside was a square 500 inches cubits long & 500 broad. And over against the Altar in yethe middle of the East north & south sides of both courts were stately gates. And in yethe 4 cortiers of yethe peoples court within all the cloisters in the western corners of the courts of the Temple were little square courts to dress the sac boyle yethe sacrifices; these Zerubbabel in the beginning of the Persian Empire rebuilt the house & Priests Court all wchwhich from that time was called the Temple. And instead of the peoples Court he compassed walled in a piece of ground on yethe east side of the peoples court Priests court with for the People & this was called the weomens Court.‡ Simeon the just In yethe favour of in the beginning of the Persian Monarchy repaired the House & the Priests court Temple & rebuilt the out court which from yethe grownd wchwhich court now lying open to the Gentiles was now thrones called the Court of the Gentiles. And Herod under Romulus rebuilt Zerubabbels rebuilt the House & Priests court Temple & yethe South side of the outward Gentiles Court more sumptuously & in a form something different from Solomon's. For the Porch of Herods Temple long was broader then yethe Temple, that of Solomons narrow & Herods Temple had chambers for yethe Priests on yethe west side of yethe Court of the Temple & a triple building upon four rows of pillars on yethe south side of the Gentiles court. And whereas the great Altar was in yethe center of Solomons Temple; the modern Iews say that in Herods Temple it verged southward from yethe center of yethe Priests court But in this in Herods Temple: but in this they seem to mistake the description of Herods Temple in their Talmud. The Altar was in the center of its Court in that Temple as well as in the former. 7r The Temple of Solomon had an inward court for the House & the Priests & an outward for the people. The inward as double in dimensions to the Tabernable being an 100 cubits broad & 200 long & a cubit being about 21 or 22 inches English. This court being distinguished by a stone rail into two square courts the House stood in the middle of the western square called the separate place & the great Altar in the middle of the eastern called the inner Court & court of the Priests. And the double cou These two cour This double court was compassed on the west side wthwith a walk on yethe other three sides with a pavement 50 cubits broad, the whole being 250 cubits long & 200 broad. Upon the inward edge of this pavement stood the inward wall of the Temple & chambers of the Priests [& upon yethe outward edge about the Priests court a little wall or stone rail about two cubits high] All this was compassed on the west side with a wall & on the other three sides w with the court of the Priests people 100 cubits broad on all sides, & this court was compassed on the west side wthwith a wall & on the other three sides with a pavement 50 cubits broad, & upon yethe outside outward edge of the pavement stood the outward wall of the chambers of the people where they eat yethe sacrifices, the whole being a square 500 cubits long on every side. And all this was compassed with a walk or suburbs, 50 cubits broad on every side & the walk with a wall six cubits broad & six cubits high, & six hundred cubits long on every side, the Altar standing in the center of the whole. ⟐ In the buildings upon the pavement about the outward court &c The buildings about the Priests court & Peoples court were 40 about 30 cubits broad with a a walks 1712 cubits broad before them upon the pavements towards the Peoples Court. They stood upon three rows of Pillars & were three stories high above the Pillars & upon the middle row of Pillars was a row of Cedar beams running up to make a partition wall between the chambers wchwhich looked towards the great Court & those wchwhich looked yethe contrary way. For the buildings were double court having two rows of chambers in every story. That row of pillars wchwhich was remotest form the great court adjoyned to the wall on the backside of the cloyster standing half way out of the wall. In the middle of every side of these buildings over against the Altar were Gates running con cross the pavements, & being 50 cubits in length & 25 in breadth, & between the two Gates on the same side of the Altar was the distance of 100 cubits wchwhich was the breadth of the peoples Court. These Gates had Porches looking towards the peoples court & taking up 10 cubits of their length so ytthat yethe length of the Gates without their Porches was only 40 cubits answering to the breadth of the buildings. The length of the Gates consisted of these parts, the breadth of the first threshold 6 cubits the breadth distance between the thresholds 28 cubits the breadth of yethe 2d threshold 6 cubits the breadth of the Porch within 8 cubits, the breadth of the Post of yethe porch 2 cubits in all 50 cubits. The 28 cubits between the thresholds were taken up with three square hollow Posts wherein were the Porters lodgings & two intervalls between them leading into the cloysters. The sides of the Posts were 6 cubits each Posts were each of them 6 cubits long six cubits broad & 20 cubits high & the intervalls between them were 5 cubits each. The three rows of Pillars buttes upon these three Posts middle Post stood in a line with the middle row of Pillars The doors of the Gates were 10 cubits broad & 20 high. The Gates between the thresholds of the doors were & within the Porches were 13 cubits wide: wchwhich with the breadth of the Posts made up 25 cubits the whole breadth of the Gates. The Porters rooms had a step before them a step a cubit broad being within the Gate being perhaps the pavement produced. The walls of the Porches were also hollow & had doors into them in the Posts of the inner door of the Gate. They ascended to yethe outward Gates by 7 steps to yethe inward by 7 & to yethe Porch of the Temple by ten. In the four corners of the great court were square square places conteining courts or kitchins for boyling & bake 40 cubits long & 30 broad for boyling the & baking the sacrifices, besides 10 cubits for stair cases. And in the whole com – And the buildings about this great court were distinguished into 30 Exhedræ, ten in every side, & five on one side of each gate & five on yethe other side thereof, so that an Exhedra used took up about 39 cubits & a half. About the Court of the Altar were six Exhedræ one on either side of every gate. And every Exhedra in both courts stood upon seven pillars took up the space of five intercolumnia or intervalls of seven six of the four Pillars & two half Pillars upon wchwhich they stood. In the western wall of the great Court were also four doors or Gates. called The most northern called Shabbreheth or the Gate of the Causey led to the Kings Palace, the valley betwixt being filled up for the passage. The next Gate called Parbar led to the Suburbs Millo, & the two next called Asuppim led the one to Millo & the other to yethe city Ierusalem there being steps down to yethe valley of yethe mountain & up again to the city. At each of these four Gates were two Porters. At yethe north & south Gates of the great courts called Tedi & Huldah were four & four. And at the East Gate called the Kings Gate were six. The eastern gate of the outward Court was appropriated to the king, & that side of the Court was called Solomons Porch or Cloyster. The Exhedra on the northern side of the Eastern gate of the inner Gate was Court be was appropriated to the High Priest & his deputies & the Officers under them, that on the southern side of yethe same Gate to the SanedrimSanhedrim & their Officers, that on the Eastern side of yethe north south Gate of that Court to the him who had the charge of the Temple & that on yethe eastern side of the north Gate to him who had the charge of yethe Altar 8r & to the Officers under them. In the buildings ⟐ In the buildings Upon the pavement about yethe outward court, there in the middle of every side of the were Gates one in the middle of every side of the buildings, each of them 25 cubits broad & 40 long besides with a porch of ten cubits before them wchwhich made the whole length 50 cubits cross the pavement. At either end of the Gates were doors 10 cubits wide & 20 high with Posts & Thresholds six cubits broad. The Gates within were 28 cubits long between the thresholds & 13 cubits wide. And on either side of yethe 28 cubits were three square Posts or Pillars each of them six cubits long six broad & 20 high, with spaces between them 5 cubits broad leading into the double cloysters of the buildings on either hand. For the buildings upon the pavement on either side of the gates stood upon three rows of Pillars which butted upon the middles of these square posts, so that the breadth of these each cloyster between the axes of the Pillars was 11 cubits & The whole breadth of both the cloysters within was about 2312 cubits allowing 112 cubit for half the breadth of the bases of the Pillars next the great Court. For the pillars were about 8 cubits about in compass & if the wall of the cloyster on the outside be supposed about 5 cubits thick & to joyne the outward row of pillars so that the pillars stood half way out of the wall, the whole breadth of the buildings on either side the Gates will be about 2812 cubits, there being upon the pavement a voyd space 4 cubits broad behind the wall without & another voyd space or walk 1712 cubits broad between before the cloyster & the peoples Court before it on either side the Porch of the Gate all wchwhich being 50 cubits took up the whole breadth of the pavement. 10 cubits The buildings were three stories high above yethe pavement pillars. And upon the middle row of pillars was a row of Cedar beams turning up to make a partition wall between the chambers wchwhich looked towards yethe great court & those wchwhich looked the contrary way. For yethe buildings were double having three two rows of chambers in every story. These buildings butted upon square courts wchwhich were made in the four corners of the great court & These courts answered to the Gates being 40 cubits long & 40 broad. In them were places for baking & boyling the sacrifices for yethe people 40 cubits long & 30 broad besides 10 cubits more for staircases. The Gates buildings were 60 cubits high & consisted of 30 Exhedræ or sets of chambers, five on either side each gate every Exhedra being 3912 cubits long & standing upon 4 Pillars & two half Pillars in a row so that the spaces between yethe axes of the Pillars were 7910 cubits The Gates were higher then the other buildings & had porches before them of the same wideness wthwith the Gates that is 25 cubits wide without & 13 within. And from the threshold of Gate to the Post of the Porch was eight cubits & the Post was two cubits more so that the Gate & the Porch together were 50 cubits long & tooke up the whole breadth of the pavement, the Porch standing towards the great Court. The square Pillars of the Gates were hollow & had little rooms in them for the Porters with a step before them a cubit broad., & the walls of the Porches were also hollow & had rooms in them for several uses. At the eastern Gate called the Kings Gate were six porters, at the north Gate called Tedi or Taddi were four, at the south Gate called Huldah were four & in the western wall of the great court were werewere four doors with two Porters at each door. other Gates or doors at each of wchwhich were two. Of these four Gates doors the most northern, called Shallecheth or the Gate of the Causey, led to the Kings palace, the valley between being filled up wthwith a Causey; the next door or Gate called Parbau led to yethe suburbs Millo; & the two next called Asuppin led the one to the suburbs Millo & the other to the city Ierusalem, there being steps down into the valley & up again to the city. The buildings of about the inner Court consisted of a Gate in the middle of every side & are Exhedra on either side each Gate, in all, three Gates & six Exhedræ of the same form & bigness wthwith the Gates & Exhedræ of the outward court The porches of the Gates & Cloysters of the Exhedræ were turned outward towards yethe great court & lines drawn through the from the center of the Altar towards yethe north south On Upon the Pavement on either side the separate place there were two rows of long buildings three stories high with looking towards one another with a walk 5 cubits broad & 100 long between them. They were without cloysters & had Galleries or walks before them in the second & third story to go from cloyster to cloyste chamber to chamber & under the Galleries little closets to lay up the Priests garments. Under the upper Gallery were two rooms closets in two stories for the lower & middle rooms stood & under the lower Gallery were was closets in one story one room story of closets for the upper rooms. If In the building Next the separate place were eight rooms in a row & in the building next the great Court there were four rooms & court in a row & a long court or Kitching wchwhich took up half the length of the row & westward & was for boyling & baking the sacrifices for the Priests This court was 50 cubits long & 20 These chambers were for broad The 24 courses of the Priests to eat the sacrifices & lay up their Garments, & the there being three chambers to every course, one in every story, in all 72 chambers. And the Exhedræ next them easwardeastward extending to the western sides of the north & south Gates of the Priests court were for the 24 Princes of the Priests, 12 in one Exhedra & twelve in yethe other in every there being apartments for four Princes in every story of either Exhedra. The Exhedra on the other side of the Northern Gate was for him who had the charge of the Altar & the fire & sacrifices & for the officers under him. The sacrifices were slain in in the Priests court on the north side of yethe Altar, being tyed down to rings in yethe pavement while they slew them, & Thence they were carried to yethe Porch of the North Gate where they were fleaedflayed cut in pieces washed & made fit for sting boyling & baking & for this end there were four tables of stone wthwithin that porch & four f before it, two on each side, & hooks within the Porch above. The Exhedra on the eastern side of the south Gate was for him who had the charge & custody of the Temple & sacred vessals the treasuries thereof, & for the Officers under him. The East Gate of the Priests Court wthwith yethe Exhedræ on either side was for him who the High Priest & his Officers & for the Courts wchwhich sat in the Temple. And the east Gate of the Great Court was for the Prince or King. In the north-east & southeast corners of the Priests Court were square places 40 cubits long & 40 broad Whether these were built with cloysters like the Exhedræ or walled in (like the other corners of both Courts) for kitchins & stair-cases I do not find written. The Gentiles had access into the walk without walk or suburbs the Temple, the Men & Weomen of Israel into yethe Great Court, the men of Israel into the cloysters of on the pavement about yethe Priests court, the Priests into yethe Priests court, the Princes of yethe Priests into the Holy Place & the High Priest into yethe most Holy. It is to be conceived also that yethe Officer who had yethe charge custody of yethe Temple had access into all yethe rooms for keeping them clean & in good order & repair. The most Holy was 20 cubits long 20 broad & 20 high within, the Holy 40 long 20 broad & 30 high within, & both together 60 cubits long including the Veil wchwhich was 2 cubits thick at the door. The doror in the veil was 6 cubits wide & 12 high, & the veil on either side was 7 cubits broad. The door of Holy the House was 10 cubits wide & 20 high. And The posts of the door & walls of the House were five cubits thick. So that the Temple was 30 cubits broad & 70 long including the walls. It was built in 3 stories (1 King. IV. 8) wchwhich made the most Holy 60 cubits high & the Holy 90 the upper rooms being treasuries. They went up to yethe 22 & 3d storys by winding stairs in the south side of the house.. The Porch was 10 cubits broad, 20 long according to yethe within & 120 high. The length of yethe Porch ran parallel to yethe breadth of the house & the its breadth being added to the length of the house made yethe whole 2386 30 cubits long within & 80 cubits long without.. The door of the Porch was 6 cubits wide & 12 high, [& that the two valves of yethe door might lye wide open wthwithin yethe Porch it was requisite that the Porch should be 12 cubits wide wide within & therefore the walls of the Porch at both ends were but 4 cubits thick But the Posts of the Porch were 5 cubits broad & therefore the walls on either side the door of the Porch were 5 cubits thick, & the breadth of the Porch within was 5 cubits.] The most Holy was 20 cubits long 20 broad & 20 high within, the Holy was 40 long & 20 broad & 30 high within. & the Porch was 20 cubits long accoringaccording to the breadth of the house & 10 cubits broad according to the wchwhich breadth added to the length of the house made the whole length with of the building within 70 cubits. And if the thickness of the walls be added, the whole length of the building without will be 80 cubits & the whole breadth 30 cubits. It was built in three stories wchwhich made (1 King 6.8) wchwhich made the most Holy 60 cubits high & the Holy 90 cubits high, the upper rooms being treasuries & the Porch was 120 cubits high. They went up to the second & third stories by winding stairs in the south side of the House. The door of the Veil between the Holy & Most Holy was 6 cubits wide broad & 12 high & so was the door of the Porch: but the door between the Porch & the house was 10 cubits broade & 20 high. These doors were made wthwith two valves meeting in the middle of each door. The house was compassed on the south & north sides & west end with a double building of treasure chambers standing upon an area 20 cubits broad: which added to the length & breadth of the house made the whole breadth 8 70 cubits & the whole length 100 cubits but the treasure chambers took up only 90 cubits of that length The house of the Temple ☉☉ The House of yethe Temple was compassed on the north the west & the south & north sides & west end with a double building of treasure chambers standing upon an area 20 cubits broad, wchwhich added to the breadth & length of the Temple House made the whole breadth 70 cubits & the whole length 90 cubits without the Porch & an 100 cubits if the Porch be included: all which the [whole extending from the western side of the separate place to the eastern side thereof & leaving a walk with within the separate Place on either side of the House, 15 cubits broad & an 100 cubits long, between the Treasure chambers & the Chambers of the Priests. Thus the Porch of yethe Temple answers to yethe ✓] The 90 cubits stoodin within the separate place & the yethe Porch within the Court of the Altar For Ezekiel went round the House & measured the length of the Treasure chambers at the west end 70 cubits & at yethe two sides 90. These Treasure chambers stood between the wall of the Temple on the inside & another wall on the outside & were three stories high wthwith a Gallery or walk between them into wchwhich walk they opened, door against door, being separate from the walk & from one another by walls of Cedar. There were 30 Chambers in a eveyevery story, 13 Temple was Compassed on the South the west & north sides with a double building of treasure-chambers standing upon an area 20 cubits broad. These chambers were three stories high wthwith a wall Gallery or walk of 5 cubits broad between them into wchwhich walk the chambers opened door against door. There were 30 chambberschambers in a story between the Temple & yethe Gallery & 30 on yethe more between the Gallery & the outward wall of the chambers, yethe in all 180 chambers. The lower chambers next the Temple were 5 cubits broad & the walls on either side were five cubits thick. The middle chambers were six cubits broad & the walls on either side were 4 cubits thick. The upper chambers were six seven cubits broad & the walls on either side were three cubits thick: For the walls had retractions in them round8v round about a cubit broad, & the timber of the Chambers do was not fastened in the wall of the Temple but rested upon the retractions between the Temple & the Gallery & thirteen every story between the Gallery & the outward wall of the chambers & 4 more in yethe corners, in all 90 chambers. The lower chambers were five cubits broad, the Galler & the Gallery between them made the l whole breadth between the walls 15 cubits & the breadth thickness of yethe outward walls was five cubits which made the whole breadth 25 cubits including the walls. The middle chambers were six cubits broad & the upper seaven. For in the walls of the House round about without were made flatt retractions or rests a cubit broad beams of the chambers to lye upon, that they might not be fastened into the walls of the House. The chambers were in every story were five cubits high within so that they whole height of the three stories including the thickness of the floors & roof was about 20 cubits. On the south side of the Priests Court. Between the Temple & the Altar stood the great laver of brass towards the south side of the Priests court. On the south side of the Altar was an ascent without steps by wchwhich the Priests went up to the Altar & at the Between the Temple & the Altar towards the south side of yethe Priests Court stood the brazen Saver, wchwhich being was 30 cubits about. On the south side of the Altar was an ascent without steps by wchwhich yethe Priests went up to the Altar wchwhich was 10 cubits high to the fire, place & a cubit more besides the margin above wchwhich was a cubit high & a cubit broad. And from yethe 4 corners of yethe Altar Margin arose up the four horns of yethe Altar – – The cavity within the margin was 12 cubits long & 12 broad & Between the margin & the fire place was a walk a cubit broad for the Priests, & the fire place was 10 cubits broad & ten cubits long whereas in the Tabernacle it was only 5 cubits long 5 cubits broad & including a crown or verge about it wchwhich was half a cubit long high & half a cubit broad so ytthat yethe fireplace within this crown was 9 cubits long & nine cubits broad. The Altar at the foot was 20 cubits long & 20 broad answering to yethe breadth of the Porch of yethe house, & it had three retractions about it each a fast cubit broad. The first retraction was a cubit high from yethe area of the court, yethe 2d two cubits higher, the third 4 cubits higher & from thence to yethe top of the margin was 4 cubits more in all 11 cubits. And the lowest retraction was hallowed with a channel round the Altar a hand breadth deep & a cubit w the margin or bre outward bank of the channel being a hand breadth broad & a hand breadth deep. This channel was for receiving the blood of yethe sacrifices & conveying it through two small holes into a deep sink or well pit wchwhich went down to yethe bottom & into through yethe heart of the mountain. & from thence went out of the side of yethe mountain to the brook Kidron. There were also under the Priests court several vaults or Cellar Cellars for several uses. 9r25 cubits broad between yethe chambers & 50 long between the courts. And before the buildings were walks serving sides being 50 cubits long. And from these little courts to yethe gates were walks on the cubits broad between the great courts & the from before the buildings ten cubits broad between the buildings & their courts. the gates having cross passages through them from walk to walk & from cloyster to cloyster & between the A little rooms in the walls between the passages for the Porters & large chambers above. Zerubbabel by the favour of the Persians in the beginning of their Empire rebuilt – – – ‡And the littleness of the foundations of this Temple [in comparison of yethe whole built by Solomon made many of the people weep] made the ancients who had seen yethe former Temple weep when they saw the proportions of this Simeon the just by the favour of the Greeks in the beginning of their Empire repaired this Temple & south the east & the north went through the middle of the Gates of both Courts & between the porches of yethe Gates were 100 cubits across was the peoples court, was being in breadth from porch to porch an 100 cubits. And the squares in the south east & north east corners of the inner court, like those in yethe corners of the outward Court, were if I mistake not, for boyling & baking the sacrifices for yethe Officers of the Temple & for staircases to yethe Exhedræ. Upon the pavement on either side of the separate place &c 9v This page is written upside down. # Iohanan yethe son grandson of Eliasib [was grown up &] had a chamber in yethe Temple in yethe Ezra 10.6 seventh year of Artaxerxes Longimanus & Eliasib continued long in yethe high Priesthood till after yethe 32th year of that Kin For in yethe 32th year of that king Nehemiah went Nehem. 13 to yethe king of Persia & in his absence Eliasib prepared a chamber in the Temple & for Tobiah the Ammonite & suffered the service of the Temple to decay removed the holy Vessels & Offerings & out of it & the portions of the Priests were not given them & the sabbath was prophaned & divers of yethe people married strange wives, but after certain days & Nehemiah obteined leave of the king & returned to Ierusalem & reformed the abuses & chased from him one of the sons of Iojada yethe son of Nehem 13. 28 Eliasib who had married yethe daughter of Sanballet the Horonite. This son Iose Iosephus tells usIoseph. Antiq. l. 11. c. 7. that this son was Manasses the brother of Iaddua & married Nicaso the daughter of Sanballat, & being thereupon driven from the Temple told Sanballat that he loved his daughter Nicaso very well but was unwilling upon her account to lose yethe honour of yethe Priesthood: & that Sanballat being made satrapa of Samaria by Darius, replied that if he would keep his daughter he would make him not only a Priest but a High–Priest & thereupon built a Temple in mount Gerazim & made Manasses the first High Priest thereof For Sanballet was Satrapa of Samaria in the reigns of De Artaxaerxes & Darius Nothus (Nehem. 4. Ioseph. Antiq. l. 11. c. 7. Manasses therefore & his elder brother Iaddua were at age before the deaths of Nehemiah & Artanarxes Longimanus; & Manasses became High Priest of yethe Temple in Mount Gerazim in yethe reign of Darius Nothus & Iaddua was old enough to become high Priest at yethe same time in Ierusalem before the end of the reign of this Darius, & too old to be High Priest under when the next Darius was conquered by Alexander the great wchwhich was above 70 years after. Iaddua dying was succeeded by his son Onias & he by his son Simon or Ioseph. Antiq. l. 11. c. 8 & l. 12. c. 2. Simeon who for his peity & benefactions to his nation was surnamed yethe Iust. Simeon dying & leaving a young son called Onias The Temple of Solomon with was double in dimensions length & breadth to the Tabernacle It had an inner Court for the Priests & an outward for the people. The inward was 100 cubits broad & 200 long, a cubit being about 22 inches English. This court being distinguished by a stone rail into two square courts, the house stood in the middle of the western square called the separate place, & the great Altar in the middle called the inner court of the eastern. This double court was compassed on the north west side with a wall on the other three sides with a pavement 50 cubits broad & upon wchwhich stood & a building upon yethe pavement conteining the chambers of yethe Priests, the whole being 250 cubits long & 200 broad, & they was compassed These chambers about the Altar were cloystered & yethe cloysters looked towards the round with the outward court or court of the people 100 cubits broad on all sides & this court was compassed with a wall on yethe west side with a wall & on yethe other three sides with a pavement 50 cubits broad upon the outward verge of wchwhich stood a cl 40 cubits broad stood a cloystered building wchwhich stood the chambers where the people eat the sacrifices all the chambers being a cloystered building 10 cubits broad with and having 10 strife of the movement before them: wchwhich took up a square five hundred cubits long & five hundred broad. And this building was compassed round wthwith a walk or suburbs 50 cubits broad & the walk with a wall six cubits high & six cubits round & six hundred cubits long on every side. And in the buildings wchwhich compassed the Priests court of yethe Altar & also in those wchwhich compassed the peoples court on yethe south east & north sides over against yethe Altar in the middle of the sides that is in the middle of each sid there were Gates, three in one building & three in the other, one in the middle one of every side one in each of them 50 cubits long from inside to outside cross the pavement & 25 cubits broad between the buildings. And the ascent from yethe outward walk up to yethe outward Gates was by seven steps, that that from the peoples court to the inward Gates by eight steps & that from yethe Court of the Altar to yethe door of the Temple by 10 steps. The length of the Gates consisted of these parts; the breadth of the threshold 6 cubits; the breadth of the two spaces between the Posts 6 cubits leading into ytthat yethe cloysters, 5 cubits each; the breathbreadth of the threshold within, 6 cubits; the length breadth of the porch of yethe gate within 8 cubits, & the breadth of the posts of the Porch 2 cubits: in all 50 cubits At either end of the inward threshold were doors into little rooms within the walks of yethe Porch for yethe walls were hollow. The breadth of the Gates consisted of these parts, the wideness breadth of door 10 cubits the breadth of the posts of yethe door within a cubit & an half on each side, the whole breadth of yethe gate within 13 cubits the breadth depth of the square posts on each side of the gate 6 cubits, the whole breadth of the gate 25 cubits. The height of the doors & square posts was 20 cubits. All these Gates were alike & Each Before the Posts had was a step a cubit broad ascending to the Posters rooms. their & the porches looked towards the peoples court, the porches of the outward Gates looking inward & those of the inward gates outward. And between the inward & outward Gates from Porch to Porch cr cross the peoples court were 100 cubits. And the buildings on either side the buildings were Gates were 40 cubits broad & three stories high The upper stories conteining the chambers of the Priests & people & the lower being a double cloyster with three rows of pillars & two walks between them. The cloisters of both buildings looked towards the peoples court & towards one another, being bounded on yethe backsides with solid walls & their pavement running out ten cubits before them towards the peoples court. The rows of pillars next the walls adjoyned to yethe walls, standing out half way out of yethe walls. The middle rows of pillars butted on yethe middle of the three square posts & supported a partition wall which ran up in the middle of the chambers dividing them into two rows of chambers in each story, the one row looking into the Priests court, the other looking on the contrary way. The height of the cloysters was at least equal to that of the square Posts that is 20 cubits. In the four corners of the peoples court were square places for stair cases & for courts to or kitchins to boyle & roast the sacrifices. These little courts were 40 cubits long & 30 broad within besides 10 cubits for stair cases. In yethe circuit of the outward peoples court were 30 Exhedræ or sets of chambers, 10 in each side, 5 on each one side of every gate & 5 on yethe other, that is, five chambers in length extended from the gates to the corners of yethe Court every chamber being about 39 or 40 cubits long. The buildings about the Court of the court of the Altar were for the High Priest & chief officers of yethe Temple & for yethe 24 Princes of the Pr Priests: those about on either side of the Court of the Temple House our separate place were for yethe 24 orders of Priests to eat the sacrifices. They were without cloysters on the south side of the Court of the House. in two rows of building three stories high without cloysters, looking towards one another wthwith a walk between them ten cubits broad & 100 cubits long. The chambers be In The row of building next the house had 8 eight Exedræ that next the peoples court had four Exedræ eastward & a kitchin wthwith to westward to boyle & bake yethe sacrifices for the Priests. The chambers had Galleries before them & closets under yethe Galleries to lay up the Priests garments. The closets under the upper Gallerywere11r were for yethe middle & lower story & that under the lower Gallery for the upper Gallery Story. And the like buildings were on the south north side of the Court of the House, there being in all 24 Exedræ for yethe 24 Orders of Priests. The House was compassed on yethe South, west & north sides with little chambers in two rows in either row & a walk or gallery five cubits broad between the rows. & three stories. It b The measure of the house in breadth were 20 cubits within six cubits & six cubits on both sides the wall four cubits the lower chamber, in the inward row five cubits the gallery five cubits the lower chambers in outward row & five cubits the wall cubits the wall of the chambers: in all 30 cubits. The chambers in yethe middle story were five cubits wide, those in yethe upper story six for The wall of the Temple had retractions of a foot round about yethe Temple to lay the timber of the Temple upon chambers upon without fastening it into yethe wall of the Temple. And by means of these retractions the lower chambers became five cubits high the wide, the middle six & the upper seven The measures of the House where in length were, six cubits the wall before, 40 cubits the Holy 20 cubits the most Holy 6 cubits the wall behind 4 cubits the lower chambers & 5 cubits the wall of yethe chambers: in all 75 cubits besides the Porch. The House was compassed on yethe south west & north sides with two rows of chambers three stories high conteining 30 chambers in length in each row & story in all 90 chambers. The wall of the Temple had three retractions round about, & a cubit broad, to lay the timber of the chambers upon & was 6 cubits thick below the first retraction five cubits thick above the first retraction four above yethe second & three above the third & the lower chambers took up the breadth of 20 cubits round the Temple namely the inward chambers 5 cubits the outward chamber 5 cubits the walk between them 5 cubits & the wall without them 5 cubits. & And by reason of the retractions in the walls, the middle chambers were six cubits wide & the upper chambers seven cubits wide. But the walk or gallery between them was five cubits wide in all the stories & the chambers opened into it door against door. Whence the whole breadth of the Temple at the west end including these chambers was 70 cubits. now For the temple was 20 cubits broad within & the walls were 5 cubits broad above the first retraction & the chambers with their wall took up 20 cubits more on either side of yethe Temple. Also the whole length of the chambers Temple on either side was 90 cubits including the chambers at the west end For the chambers at the west end were 20 cubits broad including ther with with their wall took up 20 cubits, the walls of the Temple at each end were 5 cubits thick & the Temple was 60 cubits long within, the sacred Holy place being 40 cubits long & yethe most holy 20 including the Vail between them And if the breadth of the Porch be added wchwhich was 5 cubits within & 5 cubits more the breadth of the Posts, in all 10 cubits, the whole length of the Temple will be 100 cubits, wchwhich is the length of the separate place in wchwhich it stood & therefore it extended from the western wall of the separate place to the line wchwhich parted the separate place from yethe Court of the Altar, The & had walks on either side between these little chambers & the chambers of the Priests an 100 cubits long & 15 broad. The porch was 20 cubits long according to the breadth of yethe house Temple & 120 cubits high, & the door of the Porch was 6 cubits wide & the sholders of the door on each side were 3 cubits that the Valves of yethe door might have room to lye open the door of the temple was 10 cubits wide, that of the most Holy & of the Porch were 6 cubits wide, the sholders of the door of the Temple or breadth of the wall within on either side the door for the valves of the door to lean upon was 5 cubits, the sholders of the door of the most Holy were seven cubits & the breadth of the posts of the Porch or thickness of the walls were 5 cubits, The Holy was 30 cubits high, The most Holy 20. These were without windows & above them were two other stories with windows. For the house of the Temple was three stories high. The door of the most holy was six cubits wide & the sholders of the door that is the walls on each side wchwhich the valves of the door rested upon when they lay open were each of them seven cubits broad. The door of the Holy place was 10 cubits broad & the sholders of the door were each of them 5 cubits broad. The Porch was 120 cubits high & 20 cubits long 20 cubits long according the to the breadth of the house & 120 cubits high. The door of the Porch was 6 cubits wide & the sholders of the door were therefore 3 cubits broad that the valves of the door might have room to lye open. And by consequence the Porch was 12 cubits long within & the walls at each end were 4 cubits thick.The11v The Holy place was 30 cubits high & the most holy 20. These were without windows & above them were two other stories with windows. For the house was three stories high. And the little rooms about the house were each of them 5 cubits high. 12r The Temple of Solomon formed according to the proportions of the Tabernacle being the scene of these visions, it will be convenient to give you an idea of it is Temple before I consider the visions that you may understand the Visions the better I will first describe the Temple. The court of the Temple called the separate place & the court of the Altar were two equals squares The separate place or the peoples court of the Temple & the co courts of the Temple & Altar were two equal squares wchwhich together made an area 100 cubits long & 200 broad from south to north & 200 long. This area called yethe inner court was compassed on the wests side with a wall & on the east south & north sides with a pavement 50 cubits broad upon wchwhich stood the buildings for the Priests & on the south side wthwith a wall. This pavement All this was compassed with the peoples court wchwhich was so wchwhich was 100 cubits broad on all sides. And This court was compassed on the west side with a wall & on the east south & north sides with a pavement 50 cubits broad upon wchwhich stood the buildings for the people to eat yethe sacrifices. And this pavement & wall was compassed with an area called wchwhich was called the All this made an area 500 cubits long & 500 broad on every side & was compassed with an area wchwhich was compasse 50 cubits broad on every side & was a wall called called the mountain of the house. & was compassed the walk wthwith a wall six cubits broad & six high & 600 long on every side.. In the middle of the center of the whole stood the altar & over against it in the east south & north sides were buildings of the buildings of both courts (the Priests court & peoples court) both courts the inner & outward coasts were gates 50 cubits long cross the pavements & 25 broad. The length of the gates was taken up wthwith two threshold each of them six cubits broad & 28 cubits between the thresholds & 10 cubits the porches. And the porches of all the gates of both courts were towards yethe peoples court. The 28 cubits between the thresholds were taken up on each side of the gate wthwith three square pillars on each o & two arches be each of them six inches cubits long & six broad & wthwith two arches between them, each 5 cubits broad. The Pillars were hollow & had rooms in them for yethe Porters. The breadth of the Gates within between the Pillars was 13 cubits. The breadth length of the two thresholds & breadth of the doors abo upon the thresholds six ten cubits. The height of all the doors double to their breadth. The arches between the square pillars led into clo double cloysters made with three rows of p marble pillars on either side the side each butting upon The three butted mounting from the middle of the three square paillars on either side of the Gate so that every the walks between each cloister was 11 cubits broad between the centers of the pillars. All The buildings were three cl of yethe Temple were three stories high & the two stories above yethe cloysters were built with a row of cedar beams or cedar pillars standing upon the middle row of the marble pillars. The Gates & buildings & cloysters of both courts were of the buildings of both courts were alike & looked towards the peoples court & the pillars on the backsides of the cloysters adhere to the walks wchwhich supports the buildings & bounds yethe courts. The outward row of Marble pillars in each court was joyned with the outward wall of the buildings wchwhich bounded the courts The buildings in either side the Gates were 135 cubits long in the peoples court besides There were square places forty cubits long & 40 broad in the four corners of the outward court for the people Kitchings & staircases. And kitchings being 130 cubits broad & the stair cases 10. There were also kitchins & staircases for the Priests in the four corners of the inner court. They went up from yethe mountain of the house to the Gates of the peoples court by seven steps, from the peoples court to the Gates of the Priests court by eight steps. In The eastern Gate of the Priests court sat a Councill of 3 Elders. In the Eastern Gate of the peop The king went in & out at the eastern Gate the people at yethe southern & northern Gates In yethe eastern gate of the mountain of the house sat the a council of 23 Elders. In the eastern gate of the peoples court sat a higher court of 23 elders. In The Gate & other buildings in the eastern side of the Priests court was for the High Priest & the Sagan his deputy & the Sanhedrim or court of 70 elders. These Elders might be of any Tribe The chambers on the eastern side of the southern Gate of the Priests court were for the Priests who had the charge overnight of the charge of the Sanctuary And these were first two Catholikim who were Secretaries & high Treasurers elder to the high Priest & prepared all Acts & Accounts to be signed & sealed by him, them seven Amarcholim who kept the keys to the seven locks wchwhich were upon the every Gate of the Temple & also the keys of the Treasuries & had the direction appointment & oversight of all things in the Temple. Then two Treasurers or Receivers of the publick money who received & disposed of such summs as were brought in for the service of the Temple. The Chambers on the eastern side of the northern Gate of the Priests court were for the Priests who had the charge & care of all things relating to the Altar & the sacrifices. And the sacrifices were killed on the northern side of the altar & dressed in the northern gate of the Priests court. The Chambers between the nor southern Gate & the separate place & those between the northern Gate & the separate place were for the 24 Princes of the 24 Courses of the Priests, twelve on one side & twelve on yethe other side of the Priests court. The buildings on either side the separate place were for the 24 courses of Priests to eat yethe sacrifices & lay up their Priests garments. The buildings about the separate place w Priests Court of yethe Altar were cloistered like those in the outward Court & their cloisters with the porches of their Gates looked towards the peoples court. The buildings on either side the separate place were without cloisters. Theye were built in two ranges rows of chambers each 20 cubits broad & three stories high wthwith a walk 10 cubits broad between the ranges. The charge rows & galleries before the middle & upper stories & chamb little cham rooms under yethe galleries for laying up the Priests garments. The ranges row next the Priest separate place were was 100 cubits long & conteined 8 chambers on a floor. The ranges row next the peoples court were was 50 cubits long & the other 50 cubits westward were for the staircases & kitchins. There were in all 72 chambers, three (a lower a middle & an upper chamber) for every course of Priests. The synagogues of the Iews were so framed as to bear a resemblance to the Temple Every synagogue had a Minister & a court of Elders not for called Rulers of the Synagogue & Deacons to take care of the Poor. The Minister read the service & offered up the prayers of the congregation & when any man was of yethe Congregation were called up to read a portion of the scriptures the Minister stood by & corrected when ever he read amiss. Whence he13v12v They went up from the Preists court to yethe Porch of the Temple by steps, & the The House of the Temple was br 20 cubits broad & 60 long within or 30 cubits broad & 70 long including the walls, or 70 cubits broad & 90 long including a building of store chambers wchwhich was 20 cubits broad on those sides of the also house [The store chambers wchwhich were built a double building in three stories compassing the Temple on three sides] above the north Temple at yethe west end & north & south sides of the Temple thereof of the Temple, or 100 cubits long including also the Porch. & yethe separate place wchwhich remained, or either side the house was 15 cubits broad & 100 long. The store chambers were built of wainscot in two rows with a between two walls, the Temple wall & another wall on yethe outside of the without the Temple. The wall of yethe Temple & the chambers adjoyning to it were 10 all together 10 cubits broad & yethe outward wall wthwith the chambers adjoyning to it were together 10 cubits broad & between the chambers north walk 5 cubits broad opened opened (door against door) into a walk wchwhich ran between them & was 5 cubits broad so the breadth of the whole was 25 cubits The thickness of yethe wall of the Temple was six cubits at the foundation 5 cubits at the lower story of the store chambers, 4 cubits at the middle story & 3 cubits at yethe upper story, being built with retractions a cubit broad for yethe timber of the store chambers to rest upon, & the lower store chambers were 5 cubits broad the middle 6 & the upper 7.] The store chambers were of cedar between two marble walks between the wall of the Temple & another wall without the Temp on the outside wchwhich was 5 cubits thick below & 90 cubits long on either side of the house & 70 long at the west end. The chambers & opened door against door into a walk or gallery wchwhich ran along between them, the whole breadth of the gallery & chambers & both the walls being 25 cubits. [The house of yethe T was three stories high the upper rooms being storechambers & they went up into the middle story chambers by winding stairs on the south side of the house & out of yethe middle chamber into yethe upper chamber.] The house House of the Temple was/ The store chambers were built of Cedars between the wall of the Temple & another wall on yethe outside wchwhich was 5 cubits thick below & 90 long on either side of yethe house & 70 long at the west end. These chambers were three stories high & were in two rows three stories high & opened door against door into a walk or gallery wchwhich ran along between them. in every story & was 5 cubits broad every story so that the whole breadth of of the wall chambers on either side the gallery including the wall to wchwhich they adjoyned was 10 cubits, The House & the whole breadth of the chambers & gallery & both walls was 25 cubits. They were 5 cubits high in every story. The porch of the Temple was 120 cubits high, the house & its length from south to north equalled the breadth of the house. The house was in three stories wchwhich made the holy place three times 30 cubits high & the most holy three times twenty. For the most Holy was twenty The upper rooms were store chambers. They went up from the P Priests court to the Porch by steps & from the Porch into yethe middle into the middle chamber by winding stairs in the southern sholder of the house & from the middle chamber into yethe upper. The house was cieled wthwith cedar on yethe inside & the ceiling was carved with Palm trees & cherubims & open flowers. And the cherubims having four faces wchwhich looked to the four winds of heaven without turning about, its to be conceived that they were carved on yethe east end of yethe house wthwith yethe faces of a lion, on the west end wthwith the faces of an Ox on yethe south side wthwith the faces of a man & on yethe north side wthwith the faces of an Eagle. The doors of the most holy & of the Porch were 6 cubits wide, those of the Holy Place & of yethe Gates were 10 cubits wide. & The height of all the doors was double to their breadth & They were all made with two valves or leaves turning upon hinges, each valve being half the breadth of the door. The square Posts on either side of every Gate were hollow & had little rooms in them – – – – & up again to yethe city. 13r Ezek. 40. v. 5. And behold a wall on the outside [of the outward courts of the house [six hundred cubits on every side] at the distance of 50 cubits [at the distance of 50 cubits from from the House.] round about incompassing a mountain of the H.at: and in the mans hand a measuring reed of six [square cubits long by the [vulgar] cubit & an hand breadth [the vulgar cubit being two hand breadths & they ordered cubit all in hand breadth So he measured the breadth of the building [or wall] one reed & the height one reed. v. 6. Then came he [from thence] to the unto yethe Gate of the House [or Temple] which looketh towards the east & went up the [seven] stairs thereof & measured the threshold of the gate wchwhich was one reed broad, [& the Post of the gate one reed long & one reed broad] & the [Porters] bed little chambers a reed long & a reed broad, & the Porch or Entry the arched passage between or space between the bed ch little-chambers five cubits. And the second bed little-chamber six cubits a reed broad & a reed broad & long, & the Porch ceiled passage five cubits & the third bed little-chamber a reed long & a reed broad; & the threshold of the Gate next the Porch of the Gate within, one reed, & And he measured the Porch of the Gate eight cubits & the Posts thereof two cubits. And the Porch of the Gate was inward [or towards the great Court;] And the little bedchambers were [outwards or] to the east; three on this side & three on that side [of the Gate] There was one measure of the three & one measure of the Posts on this side & on that side. And he measured the breadth of the door of the Gate 10 cubits & the breadth of the Gate [within between the little bedchambers] 13 cubits. & And The limit or margin or step before the bedchambers one cubit [on this side] & the step one cubit on that side [making the whole breadth of the Gate 25 cubits]. And the little bedchambers were six cubits on this side & [of the 13 cubits] six cubits on that side. And he measured the Gate from the [making the middle breadth of the Gate 28 cubits] [further outwards wall of the bed one bed chamber to yethe [outward further] wall of another little bedchamber; the breadth was twenty & five cubits, [the little bedchambers being] door against door. And he measured the Posts of the Gate in height 20 cubits. And at the Posts of the Gate there were [Arches] Porches round about. And from the [ outwards Eastern] face of the Gate at the entrance to the [western] face of the Porch of the Gate within were 50 cubits. And there were narrow windows to the little chambers & to the Porch within the Gate round about & likewise to yethe windows were round about within; & upon each Post were Palm trees. ———— And he brought me into the outward court & to there were chambers & a pavement with Pillars upon it in the court round about: thirty chambers [in length] upon the pavement supported with the pillars [ten chambers on every side in view, besides the northern western side being not yet in view seen] five on either side of each Gate.] And the pavement butted upon the sholders or sides of the Gates below [every Gate having five chambers or Exhedræ on either side] And he measured the breadth [of the outward court] from the [inward] face of the outward lower Gate to the outward face of the inward court an hundred cubits eastward. ☉ ☉ [Then he brought me to the north & there was a gate gate of the outward court that looketh towards the north. He measured the length thereof & the breadth thereof] & its little chambers three on this side & three on that side & the Posts thereof & the porch thereof, And it was according to the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits & its breadth was five & twenty. And the windows thereof & the Porch thereof, & the palm trees thereof [were] according to the measures of the Gate wchwhich looked to the east. And they went up to it by seven steps, & it Porch was before them [that is, inward.] And there was a 13vGate of the inward court over against [this] Gate of the north, as [in the Gates] to the eastward. And he measured from Gate to Gate an hundred cubits. And he carried me to the South & behold a Gate looking to the south And he measured its little chambers & its posts & its porch according to the same measures. And there were windows in it & in its Porch round about like those windows [mentioned above.] Its length was fifty cubits & its breadth five & twenty cubits. And there were seven steps to go up to it, & its Porch was before them. And it had Palm trees one on this side & another on that side upon the Posts thereof. And [over against this gate] there was a Gate of the inward court looking towards the South. And he measured from Gate to Gate on the south an hundred cubits. And he brought me to the inward Court into the gate of the south &c Ezek 42. 15. – And when he had made an end of measuring the inward houses he brought me forth. And he brought me to the inward Court – Now when he had made an end of measuring the inward House he brought me forth [to the toward the [outward] Gate whose prospect is towards the east & measured it [ the [outward] figures of the [whole] house ) round about. He measured the east side with the measuring reed five hundred cubits. Then about He turned about to the north & measured the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. He turned about to the west & measured the western side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. He turned about to yethe south & measured the south side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. He He measured its wall to yethe four winds round about, the length thereof being 500 cubits & the breadth 500 cubits, to make a separation between the sanctuary & the profane place. – For the space of there was alloted to the sanctuary five hundred cubits into length & 500 cubits square in breadth was round about alloted to the sanctuary & fifty cubits in breadth round about in breadth for the suburbs thereof [encompassed by the wall above mentioned], wchwhich wall was therefore six hundred cubits lots in every side] Ezek 45. 2 – And Then he carried me into brought me forth into the outward Court & caused me to pass by the four corners of the [outward] court, & behold in every corner of the Court there was a [little] court. In the four corners there were little courts 40 cubits long & 30 broad [for Kitchins, besides 10 cubits for a stair cases ) to go up to the Exhedræ where the people eat the sacrifices.] These four were of one measure. And there was a series of building round each little court, & kitchins were made under the buildings round about. And he said unto me: These are the houses of the Cooks where the ministers of the house shall boile the sacrifices of the people. Ezek. 46. 21. This description of yethe Temple being taken principally from the Ezekiels vision thereof, & the ancient Hebrew copy followed by the seventy differing in some things readings from the Copy followed by the editors of the present Hebrew: I will here subjoyn that part of the vision which related to yethe outward Court, as I have taken it from the present Hebrew & the Version of the seventy compared together. 14r The Temple of Solomon being burnt, Zerubbabel rebuilt a new one it in a form som in a form something different. He made yethe house but 60 cubits broad & 60 high building it in two stories wthwith but one row of treasure chambers about it, & therefore the length without the Porch was about 85 cubits. The separate place & the Court of yethe Alter wthwith yethe buildings about them took up a a square area of 200 cubits in every side wchwhich was the sanctuary. [And instead of the great court which now rebuilt The great court was not rebuilt but instead thereof a court called the Court of yethe weomen was walled in for the people on the eastern side of this square wchwhich made the whole area a long rectangular parallelogram 200 cubits broad & 300 long in the center of which stood the great Altar, & all this was compassed on every side with a walk called spatium intermurale 10 cubits broad & a high & strong wall wall called Chajil 6 cubits thick: so that without the walk wchwhich wall was called Chajil. Thus the whole was 232 cubits broad & 332 long ] The two buildings on the north & south sides were about 3212 cubits long broad & stood a & consisted of four equal gates in either side wthwith Exhedræ between them I an exhedra at the west end of each building. The Gate Each of the Gates took up the length of 32 cubits & each of the Exhedræ 23 all which with the wall upon the western side of the separate place took up the length of 221 cubits. The spatium intermurale ran also between the Sanctuary & yethe weomens court with a wall a cubit thick towards that Court so as to compass the sanctuary on all sides & leave the weomens Court but 90 cubits broad including that wall. The wall Chajil was 10 Cubits high at the east end & higher in other places. Without it was a It was compassed with a walk or Parade 10 cubits broad & from the walk was descent by 14 steps to another wall called Soreg w wchwhich was two cubits high & compassed the whole. On either side the sanctuary was a wall The hughuge buildings on either sid the north & south sides of yethe sanctuary were about 3212 cubits broad with the distance of 135 cubits between them the whole breadth being 200 cubits. Th Each of them consisted of four Gates & equal Gates at Equal distances & these four equal Exhedræ, one between every two Gates & one at the west end of the buildings & two Courts at their other end for looking on either side of the weomens court for boyling & baking the sacrifices.. The doors of the Gates were 10 cubits wide ' 20 high & their wings cheeks we gi or walls on either side the door were 11 cubits broad, so that every Gate took up the length was of 32 cubits broad & the every Exhedra took took up the space of 23 cubits, standing upon two whole pillars & two half pillars in a row wthwith three intercolmnia between them. The eastern Gates opened directly into the spatium intermurale wchwhich ran between the sanctuary & the court of the weomen the western cheek being within the sanctuary & the door & eastern cheek without it.. The next Gate westward opened directly faced the Altar directly & was of the same breadth, the Altar being 32 cubits long & 32 broad. The two next Gates westward opened into against the separate place & into the whole building extended to the western bounds of the sanctuary leaving only a cubit for the thickness of the western wall. I suspect that Herod added some of these Gates. The Exhedræ were built upon in Herods Temple were built partly upon a single cloyster looking towards yethe Priests Court & partly upon a Treasure-chamber looking towards the spatium intermurale but Zerubabel build them upon wthwith three rows of pillars & a row of Cedar beams & by consequence with a double cloyster as in Solomons Temple. On the eastern side of the sanctuary were between the western cheeks of the eastern Gates ran a cloystered building 11 cubits broad with a gate in the middle of of it much bigger then the other Gates. For the door of it was 20 cubits wide & 40 highs. And in the eastern wall of the Court of yethe weomen was another Gate of Corinthian brass wchwhich was never opendopened but for the Prince. The weomens court between the littl walls of the little Courts wchwhich were for boyling & baking the sacrifices was 135 cubits broad long, & from east to west it was about 87 or 88 cubits broad within the walls or 90 including the walls. In the mid way between the eastern Portico & the Altar was a stone rail or wall a cubit high wchwhich went about the Altar & Temple being distant from the center of the Altar southern eastward 27 feet cubits, northward 50 feet cubits & southward as much, ' the men of Israel had accesse into yethe eastern border of the Priests court as far as this rail. ‡‡ The breadth of the sanctuary consisted of these parts From the The length of the Gate 3212 Cubits. the Between the Gate & the stone rail The stone rails 1 cubit 17 12 cubits. Thence to the foot of yethe ascent wchwhich goes up to the Altar 3 cubits. The length of the ascent 30 cubits. Thence to yethe center of yethe Altar 16 cubits. Total 100 cubits. Thence to yethe other side of the Altar 16 cubits. Thence to yethe iron rings in the pavement 8 cubits. The breadth space of the rings 24 cubits. Thence to the Pillars on wchwhich the hung the sacrifices 4 cubits. The bread The stone rail 1 cubits. The rail 1 cubit. Thence to the Pillars on wchwhich they hung the sacrifices 2 cubits stone Tables 2 cubits. The breadth of the Tally 112 cubit. Thence to yethe Pillars 4 cubits. The bases of the Pillars 2 cubits. Thence to the wall of the Gate 8 cubits. The length of the Gate 3212 cubits Total 100 cubits. Total of both summs 200 cubits. The length of the Temple sanctuary I reccon thus. Behind the House 11 cubits including the western wall of the separate place. The length of the Temple including the Treasure chambers & Porch 100 cubits. From the front of yethe Porch to yethe Altar 23 cubits the breadth of yethe Altar 32 cubits, thence to the stone rails or border cubits, thence bread stone rail or border 11 cubits. thence to the thickness of the rail 1 cubit. Thence to yethe front of the eastern Porch 23 11 cubits, the breadth of the eastern Porch including including the wall 11 cubits. Total 200 cubits. The Iews reccon but 22 cubits between the Altar & front of the eastern Portico omitting the breadth of the stone rail wchwhich parted the was a cubit ran in the mid way between the Altar & the Portico & was a cubit broad. The breadth of the Court of yethe weomen on the eastern side of the Sanctuary I reccon thus. The breadth of the intermural space 10 cubits. Its wall 1 cubit. Thence to the eastern wall of & side of the court in wall side of yethe Court 88 cubits. The brea side of yethe court including its eastern wall 89 cubits. Total 100 cubits Thus the court of yethe Altar in this Sanctuary had the Altar in the centre & was 135 cubits long between from south to north between yethe buildings & had at each end two Exhedras & a Gate between them. And the breadth from west to east between the Porch of yethe Temple wchwhich & the eastern Portico was the of this Court was 78 cubits. For I found this court with the front of the Porch because the Porch in Herods Temple was 100 cubits broad & an hundred high. The Court of the weomen wchwhich was a long square 135 cubits in length & about 88 in breadth within the walls, was had seats like galleries round about within on yethe south, east & north sides for yethe people to sit dry, the weomen above & the men below. This court including the walls was 90 cubits broad. And this breadth with the breadth of the spatium intermurale wchwhich ran between this court & the sanctuary, being added to the length of the sanctuary made the whole an hu three hundred cubits long. From the eastern gate of the wall Soreg &c From the eastern gate of the wall Soreg there was an ascent by ten steps to yethe wall Chajil & eastern Gate of the weomens court & from that court there was an ascent by 15 semicircular steps to the spaticum intermurale & eastern Gate of the Priests court & from the Priests court there was an ascent by 14 steps to yethe Porch of the Temple. The On the north & south sides there was an ascentby 1415rby 14 steps from the wall Soreg to yethe wall Chajil & from thence by 5 steps to the Gates of yethe Sanctuary. Gentiles had access to yethe wall soreg, & no farther The men & weomen of Israel into yethe weomens Court, the King or Prince through the eastern Gate of the Court, the rest of the people through the north & south gates of that Court into the intermural space & from thence down the semicircular steps into yethe Court. The men had further access into the eastern margin of the Priests court as far as the wall stone rail of a cubit, & that margin was thence called the Court of Israel. When Zerubbabel laid the foundation of this court Temple the littleness of the weomens court made the old men weep who had seen the great Court of the people in Solomon's Temple, in yethe room of wchwhich this little court succeeded. After the Temple had continued in this state during the reign of the Persians. Simeon Iustus built the great Court, having for a pattern the eastern Porch side wchwhich was left standing, being called Solomons Porch or Portico because built by Solomon as Iosephus we are told by Iosephus who had seen it. And afterwards Herod rebuilt the southern side more sumptuously with four rows of Pillars. But the Gentiles were stil admitted into this Court as far as the wall Soreg & therefore it was called the Court of the Gentiles: The people still The And the Priests & people still continued their worship in the sanctuary & weomens court built by Zerubbabel of the outward court was & rebuilt by Herod. – And here ends the sacred history of the Iews. The second Temple being built under the dominion of the Persians it may not be amiss here to give a short description of it. This was built upon the same foundations with the Inner Temple called the in called eluding the Priests Court & separate Place of Solomon. It was three hundred cubits long & two hundred broad including the buildings. It had two courts called the separate place & the Priests court each 100 cubits square It besides the Court of the weomen wchwhich answered to the new court in Solomons Temple. On the separate place stood the house of God as in Solomons Temple. But here it was only two storys high. On the north & south sides of the Separate place stood the buildings in wchwhich the Priests did eat the sacrifices & lay up their holy garments They were cloystered on the inside towards the house. On the north & south sides of the Priests court stood the buildings for the Princes of the Priests & these were cloystered not on the out side as in Solomons Temple but on the inside towards the Altar wchwhich stood in the center of the Priests court. These buildings had walks before them & stood upon two an areas 50 cubits broad on either side of the separate Place & Priests court, the whole including together with those Courts, taking up an a square area two hundred Cubits long & two hundred broad including the walks. On the eastern side of the cour Priests court was the court of the people called the weomens Court because the weomen were admitted into it as well as the men. The separate place was distinguished from the Priests court by a rail of marble, & the Priests court from the court of the weomen by a building for the High Priest & the Sanhedrim. The whole was compassed on the outside by a walk ten cubits broad & the walk by a strong wall. This wall was lower on the eastern side then on the other three sides so that they might from the Priests court see the burning of the red cow over it, & I take it to be the double height the high fortress of the wall about the Temple built from the foundations by Simeon the just. Ecclesiast. 50. 2. From this walk they went down on the outside by steps to the rail Chajil wchwhich compassed the whole. The Gentiles had access into outward court of Solomons Temple as far as to the rail Chajil the Israelites both men & weomen had access into yethe weomens court, the men had further access as far as to the eastern rail of the Priests court, the Priests had access into their own court with the buildings & into the Holy place to worship God morning & evening & the High Priest into the most holy place once a year. And to the building of this Temple neare the beginning of the Babylonia captivity, the Apostle Angel seems to allude in the Apocalypse where he saith Arise, measure the Temple of God & the Altar & them that weep worship therein, (that is the Court of the Temple or separate place & the court of the Altar called the or Priests court & the court of the people or weomens new court : ) but the court wchwhich is without the Temple (the outward court of Solomons Temple) leave out & measure it not: for it is given to the Bab Gentiles of Babylon,) & the holy city shall they tread under foot forty & two months. On the eastern side of the outward court upon three rows of marble Pillars stood the building called Solomons Porch. It seems to have been the ea a part of Solomons Temple left standing by Nebuchadnezzar. On the north side of the outward court was built a fortress in the days of the Maccabees. Herod rebuilt it & called it Antonia in honour of Marc Antony. Herod built also the southern side of the outward court more sumptuously then Solomon had done, setting it upon four rows of Marble pillars. And the Porch of the House he built an hundred cubits broad wchwhich was seventy cubits broader then in Solomons Temple.