Now the building that was before the separate place, at the end toward the west, &c.] The separate place is the space of ground that lay next without the chambers joyning to the Temple, or betweene them and the Chambers of the Priests which stood facing them at some seventeene cubits distance. Now these buildings of the Priests chambers at the West end were exceeding great, being seventy cubits broad, and ninety long: A figure of the numerous and great multitudes of the people that should be of the Church in the West, of the Gentiles: and behind these buildings was a wall of five cubits thick, a type of Gods protection and defence about his people.