The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty 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
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