Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/6_200.lzh/6_213.TXT

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since there were five cubits between every little
chamber; but the breadth of it from north to south,
and was four yards and two feet over: and the posts
thereof two cubits; these were columns or pillars placed
on each side of the porch, or at the portal of the gate,
of two cubits, or a yard and half a foot thick; which,
added to the other eight cubits, made the entrance ten
cubits, as in ver. ll. what these posts, pillars, or co-
lumns signify, see on ver. 14, 16: and theporch of the
gate was inward; this was the porch of the inward
gate; or this was the measure of the porch within the
gate.
Ver. 10. And the little chambersof the gate eastward,
&c.] Where the man now was, and was measuring;
and the like chambers there were in the other gates,
and of the same measure; of which chambers see the
note on ver. 7: were three on this side, and three on that
side; three on the right side of the porch to the north,
and three on the left side of it to the south: they three
were of one measure; one reed, or three yards and a
half square, as in yet. 7. see the note there: and the
posts had one measure on this side and on that side; on
the right and left, north and south of the inward gate
of the porch, which measure was two cubits, ver. 9.
Vet. 11. And he measured the &readth of the entry of
the gate, ten cubits, &c.] Five yards, two feet and a
half: this was the measure of the eastern gate, whether
outward or inward; for they were both of a measure,
as appears from the thresholds being alike: and the
length of the gate, thirteen cubits; that is, the height of
it; it was seven yards and three incites high; a prodi-
gious gate this ! a fit emblem of our Lord Jesus Christ,
as the open door, the gate of life, through which who-
ever enters shall be saved; and thoro's room for mul-
titudes to enter.
Ver. 12. The space also before the little chambers was
one cubit on this side, 4'c.] Or, a border {a}of half a
yard and three inches t6 the front of the chambers;
where those that belonged to them might walk, or
have seats to sit on; such a space there was before the
three little chambers on the north' side of the porch:
and the space was one cubit on that side: a space or
border of the same measure was to the front of the
three little chambers on the south side of the porch:
this may tienote.the Christian liberty of the members
of Gospel churches; which they may use without any
breach of piety towards God, or of charity one to an-
other: and the little chambers wer'e six cubits on this
tide, and six cubits on that side; they were of the same
measure, those on one side, as those of the other, even
six cubits square; or one reed, which is the same; see
ver. 7, and the note there.
Ver. 13. He measured then the .gate .from the roof of
one little chamber to the roof of another, &c.] That
is, the whole porch, from the extreme part of the roof
of one of the little chain'bets on the north side, to the
extreme part of the roof of another of the little
chambers on the south; of the. roof of these chambers,
and the spiritual meaning of it, see the note on ver.
7: the breadth was five-and-twenty cubits; reckoning
six cubits to one chamber on one side, and six to one
chamber on the other side, which make twelve; and a
cubit and a half to each back wall of the chambers on
the north and south; or two cubits to the spaces be-
fore the chambers, and a cubit and a half to each of
the caves of the chambers, which either way make
fifteen cubits; and ten cubits the breadth of the gate;
in all five-and-twenty cubits; or fourteen yards and
three inches: door against door; not the door of the
outward gate against the d,oor of the inward gate;
nor the door of one of the little chambers at the
east, to the door of another at the west, running
lengthways, and so afibrding a sight quite through
the temple; butthe d6or of one of them on the north
side over-against the door of another on the south,
they answering exactly to each other; which still
more confirms the similarity and equality of Gospel
churches; see the note on ver. 7.
Vet'. 1.4. He made also posts of threescore cubits, &c.]
Jerom thinks, that between the outward wall which
surrounded this building, and the building itself, these
posts or pillars were placed for ornament, which took
up the space of sixty cubits; but rather these design
the posts or columns of the gate, which supported the
arch over it, on which were rooms or stories, and these
were sixty cubits high ;. for of their height is this measure
to be understood. So the Targum, "and he made posts,
"sixty cubits was their height ;" in the Targum, in the
Polyglot Bible by Moatanus, it is," and he made
"sixty posts, their height a cubit :" and to this agree
Jarchi and Kimchi; these were thirty-five yards high,
the height of the temple ordered to be built by Cyrus,
Ezra vi. 3. 'Fhe man that measured is. said to make
these posts, he being the. builder as well as the men-
surer of this edifice; and might be said to make these.
as, by measuring, he pointed out the size and propor-
tion of them: these posts may design the true members
of Gospel churches, such who are pillars in the
house of God; of which see more on yet. 16. com-
pare the phrase of making these posts or pillars with
Roy. iii. 12: even unto the post of the court round
about the gate; that is, there was the same measure to
every post or pillar in every court, at every gate
round about; at the southern and northern gates, as at
this eastern one; they were all exactly of the same
measure as the posts in this-; so Jarchi and Kimchi in-
terpret it-.
Ver. 1.5. And from tk'e fctce of the go, to of the entrance,
&c.] That is, from the outward gate as you went into
the porch, and was to the east, so called from people's
passing and repassing {b} in it.; so .larchi takes it to be
the eastern gate-; the Targum calls it the middle gate:
unto the .face of the [orch of the inner gate ; which
opened at the other end of the porch, into the outward
court, and was to the west: from gate to gate were
fifty cubits; as he measured tile breadth of the porch
before, ver. t3, here the length; there were three
chambers six cubits long, which made eighteen; and
between each chamber were five cubits, which were
ten cubits; and the space between the chambers and
the gates at each end were six cubits. each; see ver. 8.
which make twelve more; and then allow ten cubits

{a} \^lwbg\^ terminus, Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Junius &
Tremellius, Piscator.
{b} Vid. R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 9. 1.