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Chapter Ver. 17. To that above the door, even to the
XLI. inner houfe, and without, &c] This Verfe may
L/^V^O beft be explained by joining it to what went be-
Ver. 17. forCj t0 tliis Senfe: That the Windows were
made in exad Proportion, both over the Porch
and through every Part of the Temple, and the
Buildings adjoining to it. The inner Houfe may
mean only the firit or outward Sanctuary in this
Verfe, as it is diftinguifhed from the Porch and
outer Buildings, expreiled by the word without y
comp. ver. 15. For it is generally fuppofed that
there were no Windows in the inner Sanctuary.
But Villalpayidus explains the words, Even unto
the inner Houfe, in an exclufive Senfe, as if he
had fa id, As far as the inner Houfe -
y and by the
Walls round about, underftands the North and
South Walls of the Temple. Tart. 2. 1. 4.
c. 34.
Ver. 18. Ver. 18. And it was made with Cherubims
and with T*aim-trees, &c] On the infide of the
Houfe, the Walls were adorned with carved work
of Cherubims and Palm-trees, as Solomons Temple
was, 1 Kings vi. 29. The Cherubims and
Palm-trees were placed alternately, and according
to the different way of counting them, you
might reckon a Palm-tree placed between two
Cherubims, or a Cherubim placed between two
Palm-trees.
Ver. 19. .Ibid. Ver. 19. And every Cherub had two faces:
fo, that the face. of a Man was toward the
c
Pa/mr tfee m .the one fide, and ihe face of a
young vJuion .to-ward the Taim-tree, on the other
fide.'}
The Cherubims had four Faces or Appear-
ances : Sec Chap. 1. 10. but only two of thefc
appeared