SECT. II. Solomon's Porch. Which it was, and where.
THrough the Gate of Huldah you enter into the Court of the Gentiles, and that under the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the King's Gallery, which from the name its self, and gallantness of the structure might seem worthy of such a founder as Solomon. But this is not the Porch, or Gallery which we seek for; nor had it the name of Royal from King Solomon, but from King Herod.
Josephus, in this enquiry of ours, will lead us elsewhere; who thus tells us f 1.1, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, At this time was the Temple finished; [i. e. under Gessius Florus the Procurator of Judea about the eleventh or twelvth year of Nero] the people therefore seeing the workmen were at a leisure [the work of the Temple being now wholly finished] being in number more than eighteen thousand, importune the King [Agrippa] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that he would repair the Eastern Porch. Here are some things not unworthy our observation; partly that the Temple its self was not finished till this time; and then that the Eastern Porch was neither then finished, nor indeed was there any at all; for Agrippa considering both how great a summ of money, and how long a space of time would be requisite for so great a work, rejected their suit. Herod, as it should seem