CHAP.11.. Altevelation ofthe Apotalypfe. $ói eafie paffage that is made to come into this City,aswhich bathno hinde- ratíce to, make any flop or cay thereto. Hitherto do the tWelvegates belong firft of all, whereby an entrance is prepared for each of the Tribes apart, that fo they may come the more freely , and readily. To the fame purpofe ferve the twelve Angels, who hand .waiting and watching at the gates toopen than, and to entertain themwithout delav,that come in ; what other thing alfo mean the names that be writ- ten upon them,but to teach them, which way each of themmay go on aright,and may not wander up and down any minute oftime with feck- ing where to enter in. Verl r;. On the Eaft part there Were threegates. The pofitionof the Gates is molt convenient ; They Hand not all on one fide, but threeon each 'fide, that fo there might be an entrance lying open round about on every fide, and that every one might enter in right over againft ano- ther,not being kept back with any windings, and far crooked turnings; Ezrchiel entreatingof the fame thing,fettel down each of the Gates by naine towhom it belongs,b it hebeginneth atfthe North, on which fide he fetteth, the Gates of Reuben, of luda, andof Levi : on the Eaft fide he fetteth the Gates ofIofph,o; Benjamin,and of`Dan. On the South fide fetteth, the Gates ofSimeon, 1(achar andZabsilon : On tie Well fide he fetteth, the Gatesof Gad, After, and Piapthali, Chap.48.3o, &c. TheEaftern and Northern Iewes indeed (hall beflir themfelves firft, and high themaway a pace into this holy City, as v;e havehad it (hewed untous above, Chap. 16. r a. By the drying up of Euphrates, that the Way of the Kings ofthe :daft mitbt be prepared. And fo much, cloth Daniel teach us, when fpeaking ofthis journey that fhallbe undertaken, to go unto this City , he faith ; But the rumours out of the eaft, and theNorth (hall trouble him , that is, when the Eafterne and Nor- thern Iewes are ftirred up,theTurke (hall be greatly troubled when he (hall receive the firft report thereof. Seeing therefore the first onfet to this Holy voyage is to be taken out of the fe countries, the firft Cates are fet on thefe two fides,and thofe without any great differenceof for- mer or latter feeing Iohn giveth the firft place to the Eafterne Iewes, _ Etchiel to the Northern and that becaufe bothof them addreffe them- felves together and at the fame time , to this voyage. After thefe the Southern Iewes (hall follow next in order, our WeflerneIewes (hall be the laft ofall. Verf. 14. ; And the wallofthe City had twelve foundations. Hitherto of the Gates; The foundationsof them are defcribed both by their number andby theirnames. They arc twelve in number, and thefe foundations Rrrrt 2 are
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