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On The Tabernacle And Temple
100 cubits , breadth 50 cubits , height 5 cubits ; and if we take the dimensions as the holy cubit , they will give us 150 feet English in length , and 75 in width , and about 7 ^ - feet in height , which would admit a large body of people in its area , and prevent any man from overlooking the interior from outside if he were standing on a level with it .
Josephus accords with Scripture in these dimensions and in the breadth of its gate , 20 cubits , and 4 pillars ; but he calls the pillars double on each side , and gives the height of the door 5 cubits ; and the Scripture describes the vail as being worked with cherubs , but Josephus says there was no figures of living creatures in the work of the vail , but
flowers , & c . ( May not this avoidance of living creatures have been to prevent the chance of idolatry , as the Israelites were just escaped from Egypt , an idol-worshipping country ?) The vail was made of twined linen , of blue , purple , and scarlet colours . Josephus says that linen denotes the earth , purple the sea , blue or violet the air , ancl scarlet fire . The
initiated will know how to apply these colours , & c . It will be observed that these dimensions of the court form an exact parallelogram , or double cube , whose breadth is exactly half its length , and can only be made by taking the whole diameter of a circle , and consequently going directly through it , and no more than one such perfect figure can be made in any given circle , and although it partakes in some degree of the qualities of a square , it is not
one , and although no precise name is given in Scripture to this figure , we submit it may be the cause of the square being in Scripture usually designated the four squareto
, distinguish it from this double cube . We have given this figure , to show that it possessed the proportional dimensions of the outer court , viz ., its length cxactlv double its breadth .
Did the Israelites bring this knowledge with them from Egypt ; Moses was skilled in all the learning of tho Egyptians ? The dimensions of the Tabernacle within the court we do not find mentioned in precise terms in Scripture , although perhaps it may be calculated by taking the measurements
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On The Tabernacle And Temple
100 cubits , breadth 50 cubits , height 5 cubits ; and if we take the dimensions as the holy cubit , they will give us 150 feet English in length , and 75 in width , and about 7 ^ - feet in height , which would admit a large body of people in its area , and prevent any man from overlooking the interior from outside if he were standing on a level with it .
Josephus accords with Scripture in these dimensions and in the breadth of its gate , 20 cubits , and 4 pillars ; but he calls the pillars double on each side , and gives the height of the door 5 cubits ; and the Scripture describes the vail as being worked with cherubs , but Josephus says there was no figures of living creatures in the work of the vail , but
flowers , & c . ( May not this avoidance of living creatures have been to prevent the chance of idolatry , as the Israelites were just escaped from Egypt , an idol-worshipping country ?) The vail was made of twined linen , of blue , purple , and scarlet colours . Josephus says that linen denotes the earth , purple the sea , blue or violet the air , ancl scarlet fire . The
initiated will know how to apply these colours , & c . It will be observed that these dimensions of the court form an exact parallelogram , or double cube , whose breadth is exactly half its length , and can only be made by taking the whole diameter of a circle , and consequently going directly through it , and no more than one such perfect figure can be made in any given circle , and although it partakes in some degree of the qualities of a square , it is not
one , and although no precise name is given in Scripture to this figure , we submit it may be the cause of the square being in Scripture usually designated the four squareto
, distinguish it from this double cube . We have given this figure , to show that it possessed the proportional dimensions of the outer court , viz ., its length cxactlv double its breadth .
Did the Israelites bring this knowledge with them from Egypt ; Moses was skilled in all the learning of tho Egyptians ? The dimensions of the Tabernacle within the court we do not find mentioned in precise terms in Scripture , although perhaps it may be calculated by taking the measurements