Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/6_200.lzh/6_216.TXT

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trance into the churches, and in doctrine, discipline,
worship, and ordinances.
Ver. 21. And the little chambers thereof were three on
ibis side, and three on that side, &c.] As in the eastern
gate, and the measures the same, ver. 7. Gospel
churches in the latter day will be all on the same plan,
and modelled according to the same pattern, and be in
just the same order, one as another: and the posts
thereof,. and the arshes thereof, .u:cre after the same
measure of the first gate; the eastern gate: believers
will be all pillars in the church of God, and partakers
of the same like-precious faith: the length thereof was
fifty cubits, and the breadth ,five-and-twenty cubits; see
yet. 13, 15.
Vet. 22. And their windows, and their arches, and
theirpalm-trees, were after the measure of the gate that
looked towards the east, &c.3 Vet. 14, 16. signifying
that the light of the churches, their privileges, and
flourishing condition, will be alike everywhere, as in
One part of the world, so in another; see Isa. lii. 8.
and xi. 9. Dan. xii. 4: and they went up unto it by seven
steps; or stairs, yet. 6. the number of them is not there
mentioned as here, but the same in both; see the note
there: and the arches thereof were before them; the
steps; or within them, as the Septuagint; the steps led
to the arches of the gate, or to the porch of it, which
were more inward.
Ver. 23. And the gate of the inward court was over-
against the gate toward the north,  and toward the east,
&c.] Or, and as to the east {h}; that is, the north gate
of the inner court was directly opposite to the north
gate of the outward court; just as the eastern gate of
the inward court was in a strait line opposite to the
eastern- gate of the outward court: and he measured
from gate to gate an hundred cubits; from the' north
gate of the outward court to the north gate 'of the in-
ward court; and it was exactly of the same distance
from one another as on the left side; see yet. 19.
Ver. 24. After that he brought me toward the south,
&c.] Having taken the dimensions of the east and north
gates, the prophet was had on the south side of the
building: and behold a gate toward the south; that led
to the southern part of this fabric, and to the outward
court there, exactly like the other two; there was no
difference in them, which raised the prophet's wonder
and attention; for, as Lipman {k} says, there was no out-
ward court in the second temple, but to the east of the
inward; and it did not encompass the other sides; and
so the more wonderful: and he measured the posts
thereof, and the arches thereof, according, to these mea-
sure. s; the measures of the east and north gates, which
were just alike; for these all signified but one gateway
or door into the church below, into heaven above, or
into the presence of God here and hereafter, which is
Christ, John xiv. 6 and ::. 1, 7, 9.
Vet. 25. And there were witidows i.'t it, and in the
arches thereof round about, &c.] That is, in the little
Chambers, though not expressed; and in the porches
of them ou each side, as you passed from the outer to
the inner' gate: lilts those windows; that were in the
chambers that were in the east and nc, rth gates, vet.
7, 16, 22: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth
five-and-twenty cubits; see ver. 13, 15.
Vet. 26. And there were seven steps to go up to
&c.] To the south gate, as there were to the east and
north gates, vet. 6. £c2: and the arches thereof were
before them; see the note on vet. 22: and it had palm-
trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the
posts thereof; that is, on the posts of this gate were
palm-trees, two on each post, one on one side, and the.
other on the other : this verse shews us how many
palm-trees were painted on the posts, and how they
were disposed of; see the note on ver. 16.
Ver. 27. And there was a gate in the inner court to-
ward the south, &c.] Which answered to the gate of
the outward court before mentioned: and he measured
from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits;
fi'om the gate of the inward court, to the gate of the
outward court southward, were just the same dimen-
sions as in the east and north gates, and between their
respective ones, yet. 19,
Vet. 28. And he brought me to the inner court by the
south gate, &e.] Having done with .the outer court,
east, north, and south, the prophet is brought into the
inner court by the south gate, which was nearest to
enter by. No mention is made of a western gate,
there was one .in Solomon's temple; for thero were
porters appointed westward by David., and fixed
by Solomon, I Chron. ix. t24. xxvi. 16, 18. but Jose-.
phus {} says, in the second temple the western part
had no gate, but a continned wall; for those that came
out of the captivity, as Kimchi on yet. 5 observes,
built it {as much as they could) according to the form
of what they saw in Ezekiel's temple, which shall be
in time to come. And he measured the south gate ac-
.cording to these measures; the gate which led into the
mner court; for the south gate, which led to the out-
ward court, he had measured before, vet. 2?.
Vet. o.9. And the little chambers thereof, and the posts
thereof, and the arches' thereof, according to these men-.
sores, &c.] These were at the gate of the inner court;
and so they stand in Cocceius's tables; and were of the
same measure with the little chambers, posts, and
arches, that were at the several outward gates before
described; and design the churches and members of
them as spiritual worshippets. Who, besides the out-
ward tbrm, have the power of godliness:and there were
windows in it, and in the arches thereof round about;
these are not said to be narrow, as the other; which
perhaps may denote the greater and more increasing
light of the churches, ministers, and members: it was
fifty cubits long, andfive-and-twenty cubits broad: that
is, the space or portico where these chambers were;
and this was the same measure with that where the
other chambers were, yet. 13, 15.
Vet. 30. And the arches round about werefive-and..
ttventy cubits long, &c.] That is, high; this was the
height of them; these were the frontispiece. of the gate
to the inner court without, and faced the outward court,
as appears by the following verse; these were a kird
of portico over the eight steps to this gate after men-
rioned; they were tburteen yards and three inches

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{k} Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 17.
{l} De Bello Jud. 1. 5. c. 5. sect. 2. Vid. Lipman, Tzurath Beth Hamik-
dash, sect. 12.