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.
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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.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
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London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,
1684.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Church of England.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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CHAP. XXXIII. The Court it self. (Book 33)
THEa 1.1floor of the whole sacred Earth was not level, but rising: When any went on from the East Gate of the Court of the Gentiles to the furthest part of the Chel, he went all in a level. From the Chel he went up into the Court of the Women twelve steps, whereof every step was half a cubit in height. Along the whole Court of the Women he went in a level; and thence went up into the Court of Israel fifteen steps, every step half a cubit in height.
b 1.2 The Court of Israel was an hundred thirty five cubits in length, eleven in bredth.
Through all this Court one went in a level, and thence went up into the Court of the Priests by one step of a cubit high: on which was set a pulpit (where the Choi••e of the Levites that sung stood) and in it were three steps, each half a cubit. Therefore the Court of the Priests is found to be two cubits and an half higher than the Court of Israel.
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The Court of the Priests was an hundred thirty five cubits in length, eleven in bredth. And they divided the heads of the beams between the Court of Israel, and the Court of the Priests.
They went through the Court of the Priests in a level, and the same they did along the space by the Altar, and along the space between the Altar and the Pronaon, or the Porch of the Temple. Thither they ascended by twelve steps, each half a cubit high. The floor of the Pronaon, and the Temple was all level: and was higher than the floor of the East Gate of the Court of the Gentiles two and twenty cubits.
The length of the whole Court was an hundred eighty seven cubits, that is, from East to West. To wit,