Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits] In length, from the North toward the South, for in the verse before be had measured the breadth of it one reed from the East toward the West. and the posts thereof two cubits] Not simply and barely posts, [for in vers 16. [it is said] there were windows into the posts] but Rowes or Cloisters born up with Posts (as the Royall Exchange in London, though something differing in the workmanship betweene the posts or supporters.) Now in this porch of the East gate, the Cloisters were at either end of it, and they were but a cubit broad a piece; and so is the porch now become ten cubits long, just according to the breadth of the gate before which it stood length-waies, onely sixe yards and a halfe betweene them. These Cloisters or rowes at the North and South end of the porch, were two narrow passages like that joyning to one side of Bishopsgate and Aldersgate in London, saving that the outside of either was something open, by reason of the posts standing distant one from another.