And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
The court was a fence of finest linen, set upon pillars of brass and silver, the church enclosed and distinguished from the world, held steady by the support of pillars, and clothed in the righteousness of saints. Yet David longed for those courts, for they held but a handful of worshippers. But now the gospel has torn down the wall; God wills that men pray everywhere, and Christ's name opens the door to all.
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Commenting on Exodus 27:9-19
And for the breadth of the court, on the west side,.... On the west end, the upper end of the court, near to which reached the holy of holies: shall be hangings of fifty cubits: or twenty five yards and more, so that the court was but half as broad as it was long: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; which was a number...
The pillars stood five cubits apart on every side, sixty in all, to fence a rectangle one hundred cubits long and fifty broad. The front opened eastward with a gate-curtain in the middle, flanked by two sections of fifteen cubits each, and the whole was built in exact measure.
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Commenting on Exodus 27:12-16