The Gofer of Solomon's Temple. 55'1' The de of this ftately Porch in the Front of the Houfe, was chiefly for Ornament to the Houfe it Self, to the reft of the Temple. 2. The fecond part of the Houfe was the Sanctuary, or the Holy Place, called fometimes the Temple, fometimes the Houfe, and the great- er Houfe, 2 Chron. 3. 5. in contradiftinaion to the Oracle, which was the Leifer. This was forty Cubits long, that is, from Eaft to Weft, between the Porch and the Oracle, 1 Kings 6, z 7. and the Haste, that is, the Temple before it, viz. before the Oracle, was forty Cubits long. And verf. 2. The breadth thereof twenty Cubits, and the height thereof thirty Cubits. In this Rood the Altar of Incenfe, the Table of Shew bread, and the Golden Candlefticks. And here the Lordwas wont to walkas it were arnongft the Golden Candlefticks. 3. The third part of the Temple was the Oracle. This was twenty Cubits every way, both in the height, length and breadth, i Kings 6.. to. and the Oracle in the forepart, that is, which as a Man entred into the Temple lay before him in the Weft end of it, was twenty Cubits irs length, and twenty Cubits in breadth, and twenty Cubits in the height there- of : So that it was a perfe& cube excavated. It had Doors of Olive-tree, i Kings 6.31. and the Lintel or Side- poits were a fith part of theWall, that is, four Cubits, the Wall be- ing Twenty : So there was eight Cubits of Wall, betide each Door. It may be rendred a little otherwife, but thus our Translators ; and this feemeth the fitteft Proportion for the Doors. And here was the Veil hung, Namely, between the Sanauary and the Oracle. The Inftitution of the Veil we have, Exod. 26. 31, 32, 33. It is Paid, 2 Cbron. 3.14. and he made the Veil ofblue, &c. And we find, i Kings 6.21. he made a Partition by the Chains of Gold before the Oracle, that is, to hang the Veil upon them. It is a Queftion here, on which Side of the Wall the Veil hung, whe- ther in the Oracle,or in the Sanauary, which I (hall leave to your own. Meditations to confider : As alto whether the Oracle had Windows. Some think not ; becaufe the Scripture, in allufion to it fpeaks of. . God's dwelling in thick Darknefs. So Solomon at the Dedication of the Temple, 1 Kings 8. 12. and of the New Yernfalem, which is de- fcribed with (orne Allufion to Solomon's Temple. It is Paid, Rev. 2r. 23. It had no need of the Sun, neither ofthe Moon to Shine in it ; for the Glory ofthe Lord did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof. Nei- ther was the Work of the High Prieft in this molt Holy Place fuel/ as needed any more Light, than what the Opening of the Doors might yield, from the Light that was in the Sanauary, ,
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