The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

Vers. 11. The porch called Solomons.

Not that the very porch built by Solomon was now standing, for that was burnt and destroyed by the Babylonians, as well as the rest of the Temple, but because this was built on the very same pile that his was built upon. For the Temple standing upon an high and steep hill, with a deep and sharp precipice about it; Solomon to make room for the floor of the mount, which was too strait, filled up the ditch on the East side with huge stones strongly joynted together, and he built his porch upon that pile; and because this of Herods was erected also upon that very same foundation, it therefore is called Solo∣mons porch. It was the first gate, or entrance into the mountain of the House; and not only the very building of the porch, but the Court within bare the same name, Jose∣phus ubi supra.