Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.
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
And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side,.... This is still the north gate of the inward court, which had a porch that reached from the outward to the inner gate of it, in which were three little chambers on each side, Eze 40:36, between each of which were a space of five cubits...
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