The God of Israel came from the way of the East: and His Voice was like the noise of many waters [Rev. i. 15, xxi. 23]: and the earth shined with His Glory. And it was according to the Appearance of the Vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city [or, to prophesy that the city should be destroyed, ix. 1, 5, x.; Deut. xxxii. 39]: and the Visions were like the Vision that I saw by the river Chebar (i.); and I fell upon my face. [Rev. i. 17.]

And The Glory of The Lord came into the House by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the East. So The Spirit [Rev. i. 10] took me up, and brought me into the Inner Court; and, behold! The Glory of The Lord filled the House. And I heard Him speaking unto me out of the House; and the man stood by me.

And He said unto me, "Son of man! the Place of My Throne, and the Place of the soles of My Feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the Children of Israel for ever! and My Holy Name shall the House of Israel no more defile, neither they nor their kings, by their [idolatry], nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. In their setting of their threshold by My threshold, and their post by My posts, for there was but a wall between Me and them, they have even defiled My Holy Name by their abominations that they have committed.

Wherefore I have consumed them in Mine anger.

Now let them put away their [idolatries], and the carcases of their kings, far from Me.

And I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

Thou son of man! show the House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern [sum, or number, Ex. xxv. 39, 40? Rev. xiii. 18?]. And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the House, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms, and all the laws thereof and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

This is the law of the House: Upon the top of the Mountain the

whole limit thereof [xvii. 22, 24; round about shall be most holy. House.

Zech. xiv. 5, 10; Rev. xx. 9] Behold! this is the law of the

Isa. iv. 5, 6. And The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a Cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming Fire by night for above all The Glory shall be a covering. And there shall be a Tabernacle for a Shadow

in the day time from the heat, and for a Place of Refuge, and for a Covert from storm and from rain. [And a Man shall be as an HidingPlace from the wind, and a Covert from the tempest; as Rivers of Water in a dry place, as the Shadow of a Great [heavy] Rock in a weary land. Isa. xxxii. 2. Thou shalt hide them in The Secret of Thy Presence from the pride of man: Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. Thou art my Hiding-Place; Thou shalt preserve me from Trouble; Thou shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Ps. xxxi. 20; xxxii. 7. O Lord! Thou art my God; I will exalt Thee, For Thou hast been a Fortress to the poor, a Strength to the needy in his distress, a Refuge from the storm, a Shadow from the heat. Isa. xxv. 1, 4.]

Hagg. ii. 6-9. Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land [Rev. vi. 12-17; xvi. 16-18]; and I will shake all nations, and The Desire [Desired One] of all nations shall Come [Acts i. 9-11; John xvi. 16; xiv. 3; Matt. xxvi. 64]; and I will fill this House with Glory, saith The Lord of Hosts. The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, saith The Lord of Hosts. The glory of this latter House shall be greater than of the former, saith The Lord of Hosts: and in this Place will I give Peace [Heb. ix. 28].

THE TEMPLE.

[Measurement of the Temple and Courts about one mile:-of the City, the Millennial Jerusalem (xlviii. 30-35), from nine to eleven miles; accordingly as the "cubit" is taken to be 18 inches, or 21 inches (the common Egyptian measure), or 25 inches, the measure of the Sanctuary (xliii. 13),

and of the Great Pyramid, i. e. 21 inches and 4 inches,-an Egyptian "cubit" and a hand-breadth.]

Ezek. xl. 2, 3, 5. In the visions of God brought He me into the Land of Israel, and set me upon a very high Mountain, upon which was as the frame af a city on the south. And He brought me thither, and, behold! there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring-reed; and he stood in the gate. And, behold! a wall on the outside of the House round about, and in the man's hand a measuring-reed of six cubits by the cubit and a hand-breadth: so he measured the breadth of the Building, one reed; and the height one reed.

Ezek. xli. 1, 4, 13-15, 18-20, 23-25. Afterwards He [The Word and Hand of The Lord, xl. 1; i. 3] brought me to the Temple : So he measured the length thereof 20 cubits; and the breadth, 20 cubits; before the Temple: and he said unto me, “This is the Most Holy Place." So he measured the House 100 cubits long; and the Separate Place, and the Building, with the walls thereof, 100 cubits long. Also the breadth of the face of the House, and of the Separate Place toward the East, 100 cubits. And he measured the length of the Building over against the Separate Place which was behind it, and the galleries [walks with pillars, colonnades] thereof, on the one side and on the other side, 100 cubits, with the Inner Temple, and the Porches of the Court. And the door was made with cherubim and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; so that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: made through all the House round about. From the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm trees made, and on the wall of the Temple.

And the Temple and the Sanctuary had two Doors. And the Doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one Door and two leaves for the other Door. And there were made on them, on the Doors of the Temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls.

THE COURTS:

AND SPACE OF HALLOWED GROUND AROUND THE TEMPLE.

[Ezek. xlv. 1-5. Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the Land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto The Lord, an holy portion of the Land: the length shall be 25,000 reeds, and the breadth 10,000. . Of this there shall be for the Sanctuary 500 in length, with 500 in breadth, square round about; and 50 cubits round about for the suburbs thereof [void places]. The holy portion of the Land shall be for the Priests the Ministers of the Sanctuary, who shall come near to minister unto The Lord and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the Sanctuary (5; xl. 17-46; xlviii. 8-14).]

Ezek. xl. 6, 15, 17, 19-27. Then came he unto the Gate, the face of which was the way toward the East, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the Gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad. And from the face of the Gate of the Entrance unto the face of the Porch of the inner Gate, 50 cubits.. Then brought he me into the inner Court. Then

he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower Gate unto the forefront of the inner Court from without, 100 cubits eastward and northward and the gate of the outer Court that looketh toward the north, 100 cubits: And, behold! a gate toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, 100 cubits.

xlii. 15-20. Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner House, he brought me forth toward the Gate whose prospect is toward the East, and measured it round about,—the East side [wind] 500 reeds; the North side, 500 reeds; the South side, 500 reeds; the West side, 500 reeds; he measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, 500 reeds long and 500 broad, to make a separation between the Sanctuary and the profane place.

THE PRIESTS: THE ALTAR: AND SACRIFICES.

[Commemorative offerings, in honour of The Lamb, The Saviour given,— Who is at once The Sacrifice, The High-Priest, and the Altar;-as those offerings commanded by Moses were a "memorial" of a Saviour and Atonement expected.]

[Jer. xxxiii. 15-18. In those days and at that time will I cause The Branch of Righteousness to grow up unto David; and He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the Land. In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is The Name wherewith she shall be called, "Jehovah-Tzidkenu " [The Lord our Righteousness: Isa. liv. 17; xlv. 24, 25; whereupon Thy Name is called: Jer. vii. 10; Dan. ix. 18]. For thus saith The Lord, There shall not be cut off from David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel: Neither shall the Priests the Levites want a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

Isa. lx. 7. All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on Mine Altar, and I will glorify the House of My Glory.]

Ezek. xl. 35-43, 46, 47. And he brought me to the North gate, measured according to these measures; The little chambers thereof

round about; the length 50 cubits, the breadth 25 cubits: and the going up to it had 8 steps. And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering, and the trespass offering. And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the North gate, two tables [in all] 8 tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices. And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the