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A Commentary
Chapter the outward Walls, twelve Cubits; the fide.
XLI. Chambers, eight Cubits 5 (of thefe Dimenfions
L/"V"\J they explain the latter Part of the 5 th Vcrfc of
this Chapter) the Walls of thofe Chambers, rive
Cubits on each fide 5 the Breadth of the void
fpace, five Cubits on each fide, and the twenty
Cubits round about the Houfe, ver. 10. Others
compute the Sum a different way, by making
different Allowances for the outward Buildings,
and the feveral Paffages from one part of the
Temple to the other.
Ver. 15. Ver. 15. And he meafured the length of the
Building over againft the feparate 'Place, which
was behind it.~\ Noldius tranflates this Sentence
more clearly, thus : And
he meafured the length
of the Building which was before the feparate
place, [and] that which was behind it, or oppofite
to it; by which he underftands the North
and South Porch ; the Eaft and Weft fides having
been meafured before, ver. 12, 14. fee his
Concordance, p. 104. The Phrafe Elpene, tran-
llated here Over-againfl, is rendered Before, in
our Englifh Verfion, Chap. xliv. 4.
Ibid. And the galleries thereofon onefide, and
with Cor
on the other fide, an hundred Cubits -
s
and] the inner Temple, and the porches thereof^
As the Temple, and the Area wherein it flood,
made a Square of an hundred Cubits ; fo the
Courts and Buildings thereto belonging, were of
the fame Dimenfions, fee Chap. xl. 19, 47.
By the Galleries are meant the fide Chambers
defcribed Verfe 6, 7. Compare the follow-
ing Verfe.
Ibid.