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A Commentary
Chapter Ibid. A7id the length of the Gate thirteen Cu~
XL. bits.} By the Length of the Gate Villalpandus
Kf*Sf\} underftands the Height, which he fuppofcs to have
been two Reeds, or twelve Cubits and a half
high j for he reckons every Reed to confift of
fix ordinary Cubits, and a fourth Part over, which
in the common Computation of full Numbers for
Fractions, may be called thirteen Cubits. Bern.
L'Amy in his Book de Tabernaculo Foederis, explains
the Expreflion of the Breadth of the Walls
on each fide of the Gate, which he fuppofcs to be
fix Cubits and an Half. And fo the feventy Interpreters
may be thought to underftand the words,
who tranflate the Hebrew Oreb by Evp@*, Breadth.
Ver. 12. Ver. 12. The Tlace alfo before the Chambers
was one Cubit on this fide, and on thatfide.'}
There was a Border, or a Rail which enclofed a
Cubit's fpace before each Chamber,
Ibid. And the little Chambers were fix Cubits
on this fide, &c] Sec ver. 7.
Ver i ^cr ' * 3 ' ^e wMafuredthen the Gate from the
roofof one little Chamber, to the roof of another $
the breadth was five and twenty Cubits.} Meafuring
the Arch of the Gate from North to South,
it was in breadth five and twenty Cubits 5 which
. L'Amy
thus computes, the Breadth of the Gate
ten Cubits, the Breadth of both the fide Walls
thirteen Cubits, and two Cubits for the Space or
Border on each fide of the Chambers ;
Ibid. .
ver. 12.
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Dooragainft *Door.} The Door on each
Chamber exactly anfwered the Door on the op-
posite fide.
Ver. 14. Ver- 14. He made alfo Tofts of threefcore Cu-
bits.} The Angel defcxibed or made a Delinea-
tion