VERS. V.
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Upon the pinnacle of the Temple.
WHether he placed him upon the Temple it self, or upon some building within the holy circuit, it is in vain to seek, because it cannot be found. If it were upon the Temple it self, I should reflect upon the top of the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Porch of the Temple: if upon some other building, I should reflect upon the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Royal Gallery. The Priests were wont sometimes to go up to the top of the Temple, stairs being made for this purpose, and described in the Talmudick book intitled, t 1.1 Middoth; and they are said to have ascended hither, u 1.2 When fire was first put to the Temple, and to have thrown up the keies of the chambers of the Temple towards Heaven, with these words, O thou eternal Lord, because we are not worthy to keep these keies, to thee they are delivered. And there came as it were the form of a hand out of Heaven, and took them from them: and they leaped down, and fell into the fire.
Above all other parts of the Temple the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Porch of the Temple, yea the whole 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, space before it, may not unfitly be called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the wing of the Tem∣ple, because like wings it extended its self in bredth on each side, far beyond the bredth of the Temple: which we take notice of elsewhere.
If therefore the Devil had placed Christ in the very precipice of this part of the Tem∣ple, he may well be said to have placed him upon the wing of the Temple, both because this part was like a wing to the Temple it self, and that that precipice was the wing of this part.
But if you suppose him placed 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, upon the Royal Gallery, look upon it thus painted out by Josephus: x 1.3 On the South part (of the Court of the Gentiles) was the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Kings Gallery, that deserves to be mentioned among the most magnifi∣cent things under the Sun: for upon an huge depth of a vally, scarcely to be fathomed by the Eye of him that stands above, Herod erected a Gallery of a vast height; from the top of which, if any looked down, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 he would grow dizzy, his Eyes not being able to reach to so vast a depth.