Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and both it and its vestibule had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.
The gates into the inner court mirror those into the outer court exactly, same dimensions, same chambers, same carvings, yet the inner gates climb eight steps while the outer climb seven. Grace works the same way in all believers, but those who draw nearest to God must rise higher still, ascending one step further above the world than common folk do.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 40:27-38
The arches that form the portico over the eight steps stand twenty-five cubits high and five cubits broad, facing outward from the inner court into the outer. They were never built in the second temple, a fact worth marking for those who would harmonize Ezekiel's vision with what was later constructed.
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Each inner gate, south, east, and north, mirrors the other exactly: fifty cubits long, twenty-five wide, guard rooms and pillars and windows all the same, palm trees on the pillars, eight steps up. The pattern holds without variation throughout the inner court.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 40:28-37