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upon EZEKIEL. ^61
plains the lower Pavement by Way of Diftin&ion Chapter
to the upper Rooms, or Chambers, placed over XL.
them, for the Life of the Priefts, or as Store- rooms L^^v/^^J
for the Service of the Temple.
Ver. 19. Then he meafured the Breadth fromVct:. 19,
the.lower Gate unto the fore -
the fore -Front of
Front of the inner Gate without, an hundred Cu-
bits eaffward.2 That is, unto the hither Side of the
Gate which faced the inner Court. He meafured
the whole Space of Ground between the Weft
Front of the lower Gate, to the Front of the upper
Gate, which leads into theEaftern inner Court,
and found it an hundred Cubits 5 the fame was the
Space between the South Front and North Front
fo the Court was exa&ly fquare. See ver. 23, 27.
47. The Expreflion is Elliptical; as if he had faid,
there were an hundred Cubits from Weft to Eaft,
and from North to South. There were two Gates
belonged to the Porch, or Paflage, that led to the
inner Court j the firft was Eaftward looking toward
the outer Court, which is here meant j the
other looked Wefhvard into the inner Court. The
Gate at the Eaft End of the outer Court is called the
lower Gate, for the fameReafon as the Pavement is
called the lower Pavement, ver. 1 8 5
becaufe there
was (till an Afcent, as you went from one Court to
the other. The Expreflion of the inner Gate, with-
out, is explained in the Note upon Chap. xlvi. 2.
Ibid. North-ward.'] The Septuagint join this word
to the following Verfe, and render the Sentence
thus-, And he brought me to the North, and behold
the Gate looking to the North in the outer Court,
Villalpandus explains the 19th Verfe to this
Seniej That the outward Court conftfted of feven
A a a Squares,