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land_n	lie_v	south_n	southeast_n	1,303	5	12.6289	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48446	The temple, especially as it stood in the dayes of Our Saviovr described by John Lightfoote.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1650 (1650)	Wing L2071; ESTC R15998	245,293	304

Isaac there in a figure [a] R Sol in Gen. 22. Some are of opinion that it was called Moriah from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Instruction because from thence there went forth a law and doctrine for all Israel [b] Onkel ibid. others conceive the name to have been derived from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mor which betokeneth Myrrh and spicery because it was to be the only place of offering incense [c] Fuller missel lib. 2. cap. 15. others from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mor●eh jah The Lord will be visible because the Sonne of God was to appeare there in humane flesh And so they all repute that it carried a notation predictive or referring to something that was to occurre there in time to come But if we will apply the etymologie of it to that ●i●●e present when it and the Country about it did first take that name of the land of Moriah we may construe it The Land of a teacher of God as John 3.2 or the Land of the Lord my teacher as being the Territory of Sem or Melchisedek the great teacher of the waies of the Lord while the Canaanites round about did walke in blindnesse and were led by teachers onely of delusion and the Land which the Lord his teacher had designed to him in the prediction of his father Noah [d] Ioseph An. 114. lib. 15. c. 14. This Mouut was so seated in the midst of Jerusalem that the City lay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in form of a Theatre round about it [e] Vid. Ezek. 40.2 Kamch ibid. Tosaph ad Kelim On the South lay Jerusalem it selfe built upon Mount Acra and Acra naturally higher then Moriah [f] Ioseph de Bell. lib. 5. c. 13. but much levelled by the Asmonean family in the time of their reigne and the valley betwixt well raised and filled up with earth that both the Temple might over-top the buildings on Acra and that the coming up from the City to the Temple might be the more plaine and easie compare Luke 3.5 [g] Psal 48.2 A●en Ezra ibid. ● On the North side lay Mount Sion furnished with the gallant buildings of the Palace Court and City of David These two Mountaines Acra and Sion and the Cities built upon them the London and Westminster City and Court of the Land of Canaan did so decline and descend upon their South-east and North-east points that on the East and West of the Temple they met and saluted each other in a valley having also a deep valley betwixt them and the Temple on every side but only on the South where it was the lesse deep because of the levelling mentioned immediately before Although this Mount Moriah were not so high of it selfe as the two hills on either side it yet was it of a great pitch and steepnesse [h] Id. de Bell. lib. 5. c. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A strong heap steep and deep on every side And it was a discerning note of a young male child [i] Hagigab per. 1. That he was bound to appear before the Lord at the three festivals if ●e were once come to be able to go up the Mountaine of the Temple holding his father by the hand This Mount fell so in the division of the Land that part of it was in the lot of one Tribe and part of it in another [k] Aveth R. Na●han per. 34. Zevachin pe 5. in Geinara For most part of the Courts was in the portion of Judah but the Altar Porch Temple and most holy place were in the portion of Benjamin And that part that lay in the portion of Judah was made hollow under 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with arches built upon arches underneath saith Maimony [l] Beth ●abbekirah per. 5. because of the Tent of defilement Now this that he calleth The Tent of defilement might very well be supposed to be a Sinke or common Shore made under ground and arched over for the conveyance of all the filth and wash of the Courts away and that there was such a thing we shall see hereafter but he explaineth himselfe in another place and saith that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 [m] Maym. Parah per. 2. All the Mountaine of the house that is the outmost space and all the other Courts were hollow under because of an abysse or deep grave Now the Talmudicks use to call a sinke unseen or unsuspected grave 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 [n] Talm Bab. Parah per. ● gloss ibid. An abysse grave 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Gospell language Luke 11.44 And so they call an unseen or unknowne uncleanenesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 [o] Nazir per. ● Maym. in Biath Mikd●● per. 4. an abysse of uncleanenesse and they oppose to it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An uncleanenesse knowne of Wherefore that they might be sure that there should be no graves secretly made in any of the Courts of the Temple by which they might be defiled they arched all the Courts under ground so as that there were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arches upon arches as my Author expresseth it which he explaineth in another [p] Id. in Parah per. 3. place in another story of the like nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one arch set upon two arches so that the feet of an arch stood upon two arches that were under it And so it was either impossible to bury above the arch for want of soile or if it were possible to bury below the arches it was deep and farre enough from defiling CHAP. II. The measure of the floore of the Mountaine of the Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Compasse of the floore of Moriah [a] Ios de Bell. lib 5. cap. 14. did increase by time and industry somewhat though not much above what it was when Solomon first began the Temple there For [b] 1 Chr. 21.8 22.1 whereas David by divine direction had built an Altar and God by divine fire upon it had fixed that very place for the place of the Altar of the Temple the Mountaine possibly in some part of it might want here and there somewhat upon the edge of it by bendings and windings in so that the square for all the Courts which was intended and which was to be measured from the Altar as from the standing mark could not runne even but did meet with some small hiat us through the want and pinching in of the hill in certaine places whereupon Solomon and the succeeding generations were still encreasing the spaciousnesse and capaciousnesse of it by filling up the valley or precipice where the want was insomuch that the compasse and space of it at the last under the second Temple was [c] Mid. per. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 five hundred cubits upon five hundred cubits that is a perfect square of 500 cubits upon every side 2000 cubits in the whole compass about [d] Maym in Beth habbechir per. 5. And this