AFterward he brought me to the Temple] Having described the forme and fashion of the severall courts, and of the buildings in them, he cometh now to set out the very house or Temple it self: The going up to which building or face of it was thus: Before you come to the very body of the house, there was a cloyster on either hand, six cubits broad, the breadth being to be thus conceived, that it was from the wall of the house, out Eastward into the court: the length of either cloyster, was a cubit lesse then was the breadth: for whereas they were six cubits broad, they were but five cubits long. The breadth of the Tabernacle] By the Tabernacle, is to be understood the holy place, distinct from the most holy, and this is also called the Temple, vers. 4. And so is the same place, in the fabricke made by Moses, called the tent, Exodus 20:36. and the first Tabernacle, Hebrews 9:2. contradistinguished from the second or most holy place, vers. 2. Now this place here spoken of, was fortie cubits long and twentie broad, and of such a proportion of measure, though not of the very same measure, was the holy place in the Tabernacle of Moses, namely, the length of it double to the breadth, it being ten yards long, and but five broad. The breadth of the Tabernacle here in hand, being twentie cubits, you are to conceive it, that the doore in the very middle of the East end, was ten cubits broad, and then from the doore cheeks, the wall to the South and North corners, was five cubits more on either side: and along these walls did the cloyster goe to those corners: and so is this verse to be understood: he measured the posts, or the cloysters standing upon posts six cubits broad on the one side, from the house toward the court, and six cubits broad on the other side, from the house toward the court, and they ran along the breadth of the house from the side of the doore to the corners of the house.