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will be among them twenty grades of honor—"twenty chambers."— Ezek. 45:5; 48:13-14.Secular Land for the CityAt the extreme south (earthly) of the holy squarewill be a 5,000-reed-wide section which will be"secular for the city." This represents inminiature the perfect human condition of thevisible rulers (city) of the earthly phase of theKingdom and of all thoseFM575under that Divine government— the whole worldof mankind (Israel). The city will be in themiddle of this section, a 4,500-reed square,which, with a border or suburb 250 reeds wideall around, reaches across the secular land,symbolizing the dominance of the coming worldgovernment over the human race. (Ezek. 45:2-4;48:15-20, 35.) So extraordinary and heartsatisfyingwill be the methods of and theblessings from the Divine government (city) thatit will appropriately be called "The Wonder ofJehovah."— E46, 43.Land for SanctuaryIn the center of the priests' land will be the landfor the Sanctuary, an area 500 cubits, or 750 feetsquare, surrounded by a 50-cubit, or 75-foot,border or "suburb." In this square will be thewalls, courts and structures of the sanctuary. Itwill type again in miniature, in detail, theconditions of all classes in the Kingdom from theChrist (priests) down, as regards their religiousrelationship to one another and to God.Land for the PrinceBoth of the ends of the 250,000-reed-wideoffering of land, east and west of the central holysquare, will be given to "the Prince," typing theperfect human condition of the AncientWorthies, or overcomers before the Gospel Age,who shall be "Princes in all the earth." As thePrince's land will not be inalienable but may begiven away by the Prince, so to certain classes it