. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . m The first temple, erected by Solomon, was com-pleted b. c. 1004. In b. c. 588, soon after the be-ginning of the seventy years captivity in Baby-lon, it was destroyed by the army of Nebuchad-nezzar. After the return of the Jews to theirown land, the temple was rebuilt, on a somewhatlarger scale, by Zerubbabel, b. c. 516. Five hun-dred years later it was restored and enlarged byHerod, who began the work about 20 b. c. Herodretained, in the sanctuary, the same dimensions^ as in that of Zerubbabel, but he added
. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . m The first temple, erected by Solomon, was com-pleted b. c. 1004. In b. c. 588, soon after the be-ginning of the seventy years captivity in Baby-lon, it was destroyed by the army of Nebuchad-nezzar. After the return of the Jews to theirown land, the temple was rebuilt, on a somewhatlarger scale, by Zerubbabel, b. c. 516. Five hun-dred years later it was restored and enlarged byHerod, who began the work about 20 b. c. Herodretained, in the sanctuary, the same dimensions^ as in that of Zerubbabel, but he added greatly tothe size and magnificence of the courts. Thetemple inclosure was so extended as to form anarea of nearly a thousand feet square. The clois-ters surrounding the outer court are said to havebeen, in an architectural point of view, the mostmagnificent part of the entire structure. A seriesof terraced courts ascended to the holy house it-self, which faced eastward, and was approachedfrom the east, though the principal gateways inthe outer inclosure were on the west. This te
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