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Show Their Temple. LIB. I l. diately following the one hundredth nineteenth, up· on each fiep one Pfalm, whence thofe Pfalms are en,titu1ed ljalmi graduale1, Songs of degrees. In th~ Women1 Court ftood their 1re.ajilrieJ·, or Almtbox, as appeareth by the poor Widows. ca.fting her two M1te~ into it, Luk: 2 r. r. In Hebrew Jt 1s tt~rme? j.lill Korba1t, the Chefl of ohlation ; the word ~gat· fieth barely, an oblation, or eJjfering, ~nd acc?r.dtngly S. L~ti{. 2 r. 4 faith, they all of their fuperflutttes caH: into the offerings ; that is i_nt~, the Korban, or C~eft of offerings. In Gree~ tt IS termed ')'«'o'~J..aaov, whence cometh the LatJne word , G4tzophJlacrum, a Trea/ury. That fet up by Jehoiac)a, 2 King., 12. 19.feem .. eth to have been different from this, and to have been extraordinary , only for the repairing of the Temp!e ; for that fiood befide the Alt~r in the Priefls Coltrt ; and the Priifls, not the parti~s that brought the gifts, put it into the chefl• Somettmes the whole Court was termed Gdzophylacium, a Treafory. Thefe _ words fpeak 'Jejiu in the TreafurJ , John 8 •. 20. It is worth our noting, that the Hebrw word :-1p,g Tfedt~.ka, fignifying AlmJ, fignifieth properly Jujtice ; and thereby is intimated~ that the matter ot our alm5 fhould be goods jutl:ly gotten : And to this purpofe they called their Alms• box np.,g '7nw Sl"P Kupka-sehel- 1fedtl}za, the C heft of J.ufiice ; . and upon thetr !!lm~· ~rBuxtorf. de box they wrote (e) this abrevtature N'JO, A gift tn ahbrev. tn fecret pacifieth anger; Prov.~ I. I 4· r I rye~~?~ · In Her~d's 1emple there were lf) four Porches; the conrrr~ Apioll. meanigg is four Courts, one for the Priefts' another- 1 ~56• for men a~other for women, and a fourth fo, foch 111 were un:lean b1 leg~Zl poUutions, 11nd firangers. This . outmoft Court _for the undean and frrangers, was . ' feparated from the womens CoNrt., with .a ftone wall · · of L lB. I· I. Their Temple. 67 of three Cubits high, ·which wall was adorned with certain pillars of equal difiance, bearing this lnfcrip~ tion : (g) Let no {iranger enter into the holy place. g M) ;;;· C:.A.- The Tenple at Jerufalem was thrice built. FirH;by ,..&,t~M~ e.Solpmon : Second I y, by Zoroba!Jel : Thirdly, by He· ~~~ ~ .ty[~ rod. The firfl: was built in feven years, 1 King.6 .3 7· "'l «1e..L4~caf. Th e fie con d ·J n 1c orty fli X years : I t was b egu·n .tn t he lhnt moc 1t1rma nfainre· fecond year of King CJrns, Ezra 3· g, It was finillied alienigena no,. i~ the (h) ninth year of Darius HJftafpk. The years ~~~e:i./:~!h. rtfe thus ; lib 6.c. 6. CJrUs reigned 3 0 h_ lofeph,Antiq. C b II am '}Jr;,e t o 8· ~ . ltb. II. c. 4. II was finijhed i'! I he Jear Years. of Darius Hy/lafpis o~ - One year deducted from Cyrus his Reign, there remains 46. Herod"s Te'?lple was finHhed io ( i) eight years. It is i .rofeph. Antiq. greatly queiboned among Divines, of which Temple It b. Is cap. "Jr. that fpeech of the Je.ws is to be underfiood, 'john 2 .. 20" Forty and fix JearJ Wtn this Temple in huilding Many i~terpret it o.f the .recond T:mple, faying, that Herod dtd only repatr that, not butld a new : but thefe' difagreeamong themfelves in the computation ; and the Scriptrire fpeaketh peremptorily, that the noufe was ~,~filed in the fixth year of the Reign of King Da_r11n, Ezra 6. I). and ·rJ~phm fpeaketh of Herod's huilding a new Temple, plucl{!ng down the old. ( 1{.) It . . .. feemeth therefore more probable , that the fipeech is dl( v,o'"~ 8!/P"' '~,· b d n. d f d' . e rtl ... tmp. to e un e_ruoo o Ejero . s ~emple, whtch, though it ' ·3 were but erght years In butldtng , yet, at that time, when this fpeech was ufed, it had ftood preciiely fortt ~ fixye4rs , ( l) for fo matay years there are precifely I V~ae fupp,~ bet~ee~ t.he eighteenth year of HertJd's Reign, ( at !i~~:":,~ !:."'· wh~ch ttme the Temple begun to be built ) and the 3747• K : . year |