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upon E Z EK I EL. 403
the Pneits trod upon thefe Set- Chap tee
ties, as they and the People did in die Courts be- XLIII.
fore the Temple. From the Foundation to the
lower of the two Settles here mentioned, the
Text faith, was to be two Cubits 5 which feems
to contradict the words in the Vcrfe before, The
bottom fhall be a- Cubit, This Difference in Hx-
prellion Dr. Lightfoot thus reconciles, in his
c Defcription of the Temple, Chap. 34. That the
Foundation, as it lay flat upon the Ground, was
but a Cubit high* but then there arofe a Slope
of another Cubits Height, which was thicker
than the Compafs of the Altar, juft above it
So that from the Ground to the top of the Riflna
was two Cubits. And thus he reconciles the
Defcription here given with that of the Talmud,
which reckons Five Cubits from the lower Settle
to the Higher j whereas the Prophet counts
but Four, in the following Words.
. Ibid. And the breadth one Cubit,,] The Breadth
of this lower Settle or Border was one Cubit,
which made that part of the Altar, which was
above it, narrower by a Cubit on every fide of
the Square, than that part which was nearer the
Foundation.
Ibid. And from the lejfer fettle, even to the
greater fettle, fhall be four Cubits, and the
breadth one Cubits Dr. Lightfoot in the fame
Place afligns this Reafon, why the upper Settle
is here called the Greater ; becaufe the upper Set-
tle, tho' it were lefs in Compafs, (being narrower
by two Cubits on every fide of the
Square) yet was larger it Breadth 5 the lower
F f f 1 Settle,