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upon EZ EKIEL. 373
the fame Senfe, Exod. xxxvi. 14. where our Chapter
English reads, For a Tent over the Tabernacle, XLI.
but it fhould be tranflated, For a Covering owrU?V\J
the Tabernacle j to which fenfe the lxx tranflate
ir in both Places. In this Signification it may
not be unfitly applied to the upper Lintel, which
is a kind of Covering to the Door, and thus it is
generally underftood by the Rabbins upon this
Place.
Yer. 2. And the breadth of the 'Door was ten Ycr. 2.
Cubits, and the fides of the 'Doer were five Cu-
bits on this fide, and five Cubits on the other
Jide.^ The Entrance itfelf being ten Cubits
broad, and the Wall on each fide five Cubits,
makes the Breadth of the Houfe it felf to be juft
twenty Cubits, as it is cxprefled in the latter part
of the Verfe, which was the fame in Solomons'
Temple, 1 Kings vi. 2.
Ibid. And he meafured the length thereofforty
Cubits.~\ The Length of the firlt Sanctuary, as
diftind from the inward, or the Holiefl of all,
which was twenty Cubits in Length, Ver. 4. and
made the whole Structure fixty Cubits long:
wherein it agreed with Solomons Temple, 1 Kings
vi. 2, 17.
Ver. 3 . Then he went inward, and meafured Vcr. 3
the T? oft of the door two Cubits, &c.] From the
outward Sanctuary he went forward toward the
Holieft of all, and meafured the Thicknels of the
Partition Wall, called the Vail of the Temple,
Matth. xxvii. 51. to be two Cubits, the Entrance
itfelf to be fix Cubits, and the Breadth of the
Wall on each fide the Door to be Ccvcn Cubits -,
comp. Chap. xl. 48. where the Breadth of the
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