Greek Testament lessons for colleges, schools, and private students, consisting chiefly of the Sermon on the Mount, and the parables of our Lord : with notes and essays .. . fit for sacrifice were sold as in a market;and here were the tables of the money-changers. At ashort distance within the court, a marble screen 4 J feethigh, and beautifully ornamented, bore Greek and Latininscriptions warning Gentiles not to proceed on pain ofdeath. That in Greek has been recently found. Thewalls of the court were of white marble. The gates.—Within this outer court rose the hugecastellated wall which encl
Greek Testament lessons for colleges, schools, and private students, consisting chiefly of the Sermon on the Mount, and the parables of our Lord : with notes and essays .. . fit for sacrifice were sold as in a market;and here were the tables of the money-changers. At ashort distance within the court, a marble screen 4 J feethigh, and beautifully ornamented, bore Greek and Latininscriptions warning Gentiles not to proceed on pain ofdeath. That in Greek has been recently found. Thewalls of the court were of white marble. The gates.—Within this outer court rose the hugecastellated wall which enclosed the Temple. It had ninegateways, with towers 50 feet high. The great entrancewas by the eastern gate, sometimes called Beautiful;sometimes, from a Maccabean hero, ]S[icanors gate. Theother gates were sheeted with gold or silver; thebronze of this one shone almost with an equal splendour. Every evening it was carefully closed: twenty menwere needed to roll its heavy doors, and drive down intothe rock its iron bolts and bars. It was regarded as theportcullis of the divine castle. I PLAN OF THE TEMPLE. ik. ENTRANCE. TO ANTONI [^« ^ WORSHIPPERS RETIRE BV THE LEFT. C C C C COURT OF THE GENTILES. y *r^ t«* 8V THE RtiL*!^---- R_q y . H. OPHEL GATE A. Royal Tyropoeon B. etc. Terrace, or Chel, outside ofwhich tradition places a lowenclosure, called the c c. South Side Gates, the secondon the right hand being, theancient Water D D. North Side E E E. Money Chests. F F. Courts and Nicaoor Fifteen Steps of the House of Steps of the To Mount Shushan Gate, with arched road-way, to Mount of Olives (?)M. To Bezetha. Copied by permission from Edersheims Temple and its Services, published <the Religious Tract Society. JEKUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE. 21 The Court of the Women.—On penetrating throughthis sacred entrance, a platform was entered called TheCourt of the Women. At the
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