_The temple. This plan of a temple, which was here shewn to the prophet in a vision, partly had relation to the material temple, which was to be rebuilt: and partly, in a mystical sense, to the spiritual temple of God, the Church of Christ. (Challoner) --- The description seems grander than Solomon'... [ Continue Reading ]
_Front, or door-posts. The temple was 20 cubits broad._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Four. Herein it differed from Solomon's chambers, which were in breadth five, six, and seven cubits, in the three stories, respectively. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_One by another, or one over another: literally, side to side, or side upon side. (Challoner) --- The word side is here equivocal, like Hebrew tsela, sometimes denoting the boards, and at other times the apartments round the temple, except on the west, over against the sanctuary, which seems to be t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Broader, as the wall was not so thick. (Haydock) --- Midst. The two staircases were round in the hollow of the wall, (Menochius) at the eastern end of the chambers. (Josephus) See 3 Kings. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_House. Because these side-chambers were in the very walls of the temple all around: or it may also be rendered, (more agreeably to the Hebrew) so as to signify, that the thickness of the wall for the side-chambers within was the same as that of the wall without; that is, equally five cubits. (Chall... [ Continue Reading ]
_Prayer, or "separated;" munnach, (Haydock) the inner house, ver. 9._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Separate, different from that [in] ver. 9., (Calmet; Hebrew gizra.; Haydock) between the temple and the priests' apartments, which it may also designate, (Calmet) unless it (Haydock) mean the temple itself, which was divided from the rest, (Menochius) and set aside for prayer, &c. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Galleries; Ethecas, or as the more correct manuscripts of St. Jerome read, Ecthetas, seems to be formed from (Calmet) Hebrew athikim, (Haydock) which St. Jerome explains a balcony, portico, or gallery._... [ Continue Reading ]
_About. Thus he intimates the inner temple, which was covered with boards. --- Windows. The temple was hidden so far by the chambers; or rather he measured (Calmet) "the ground and up to the windows, which were" shut up with lattices, affording light over the doors (Haydock) and apartments, fifteen... [ Continue Reading ]
_Two. Before he describes them with four faces. But they varied, (Exodus xxv. 18.) or the other two might be against the wall. (Calmet) --- The cherub signified "knowledge," and the palm-tree victory, to shew that man must be instructed with divine knowledge, and so fight for the victory. The face o... [ Continue Reading ]
_The threshold was four-square. That is, the gate of the temple was four-square, and so placed as to answer the gate of the sanctuary within. (Challoner) --- It was not an arch, though not a perfect square, 3 Kings vi. 34._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Table, or altar of incense, larger than that of Moses, Exodus xxx. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sanctuary. One folding door opened into it, the other into the temple._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Other. It was not perhaps necessary to open the large door._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sides, ( humerulis) or pilasters. Hebrew, "on the shoulder of the porch, and on the sides of the house, and beams." (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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