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8 A Commentary
Chapter ver. 13. The fame, he tells us, was obferved be-
XL. tween the Breadth of the Cloy tiers of the outward
t/*V^O Court, which was fifty Cubits, and the Contents
of the whole Area, which was an Hundred. Sec
Vcr. 16.
the Note on vcr. 18.
Ver. 1 6. And there were narrow windows to
the little Chambers, and to their pofts within the
Gate round about .] Every one of thefc little Chambers,
ver. 7. had a narrow Window to it toward
the Infide of the Gate, where the Paflagc was;
and fo there was over the fide Pofts or Fronts, placed
at the Entrance of every Chamber. By narrow
or clofed Windows, fomc underftand Windows
with Lattice-Work, to let in the Light. But
the Phrafe feems equivalent to that which is more
fully exprefled 1 Kings \i. 4. by open and narrow
i. e. as the Margin of our Bibles doth
Windows -,
very well explain it ; broad within [ to difperfc
the Light] and narrow without.
Ibid. And likewife the Arches.,] By Windows
to the Arches. Villalpandus underftands the Stone
itfelf wrought into Figures of Net-work, and made
in the fhape of a Lattice. The Word tranflated Arches
doth likewife fignify a Porch, or Entrance, and
fo the vulgar Latin tranflates it 5 and then
the Senfe is, that there were Windows over every
Door; Compare ver. 31 and 34, with ver. 37;
where the fame Senfe is exprefled in the two former
Verfes j by Arches, Aelamo in the Hebrew,
and in the latter, by Tofts, or Fronts, Aelau.
Ibid. And the windows were round about inward.2
A Repetition of what was faid in the former
Part of the Verfe, fee ver. 10.
Ibid.