Its side rooms, three on either side, and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.
The measuring-reed which was in the hand of the surveyor-general was mentioned before, Eze 40:3. Here we are told (Eze 40:5) what was the exact length of it, which must be observed, because the house was measured by it. It was six cubits long, reckoning, not by the common cubit, but the cubit of the sanctuary, the sacred cubit, by which it was fit that...
Commenting on Ezekiel 40:5-26
And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looked towards the east,.... Eze 40:14, signifying that the light of the churches, their privileges, and flourishing condition, will be alike everywhere, as in one part of the world, so in another; see Isa 52:8, and they went up unto it by seven steps; or stairs, Eze...
And the little chambers thereof were three, etc. - See the plan. Arches - Porch. The arch was not known at this period.