VERS. XI.
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In the Porch that is called Solomon's.
IF we will distinguish betwixt Porch and Porch, then Solomon's Porch, was on the East, and the Royal Porch on the South, &c. But if we would have the whole Court of the Gentiles to be comprehended under the name of Solomon's Porch (though it may seem something obscure why it should be called a Porch, and why Solomon's Porch, yet) it may not be unfitly admitted here. But whether it took its name from Solomon's Porch, strictly so called, as being the most noble Porch, and antiently that of Solomon's: or because Solomon consecrated that Court in his Temple by Sacrifices l 1.1: Or whether be∣cause Solomon 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, (as Josephus tells us) filled the deep trenches with earth, that by levelling the place he might have room enough to make this Court. What∣ever it was I deny not but the whole Court might go under that name, although as I have elsewhere shewn, the very Solomon's Porch, strictly taken as a Porch, was only the Eastern part and Porch of that Court, And let me only repeat what I have quoted in that place. m 1.2 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The Priest's Gate, and the Gate Huldah, were not to be destroyed at all, till God should renew them. Which encreaseth our suspition, that the name 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Hhuldah is derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Hheled, which signi∣fies time, and Age, from the lastingness they had phansied of this Gate; and that the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in this place might have some such signification, as one would say, the gate of time. And perhaps the little Priest's Gate was the other Gate of Hhuldah, from the same du∣ration they conceited in that Gate also. For there were two Gates of that name, on the South side of the Court, as we have noted before.