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 Plan. 205 " situated in front of the after court, in the corner westward ; " 70 cubits wide by 90 cubits long, not including the wall five cubits thick (Ezek. xli. 12). What is its position going to be? Shall we find its greater dimension, as we did for the temple, on the line that traverses the sacred area from east to west ? We wot not ; for even supposing that the edifice could be put near the enclosure wall, the space intervening between it and the temple would hardly reach ten cubits. But if we take the length on a line perpendicular to the axis of the whole monument, it will exactly give us the " open space " of 20 cubits, which, according to the text, should be right and left of the sanctuary (Ezek., loc. cit.). There are still ten cubits to be disposed of, on the one side of the square mostly E3- •J00— -K---100- -«■-•109-- FlG. 130.— Gates, Temple, Side Buildings, and after Edifice. Fig. 131.— Trellis-plan and Principal Buildings. covered by the length of the block of masonry, which will come in as a passage five cubits wide right and left of the building (Fig. 1 30). Here, too, we shall find 100 cubits, by reckoning lengthwise ; thus : court, 20 cubits ; width of building, 70 cubits ; enclosure wall, six cubits ; leaves four cubits for a corridor, which is but the con- tinuation of that at the sides ; allowing free access to the build- ing everywhere. So far we have followed the prophet, and sought to determine the place each of the primary divisions was to occupy on the trellis-plan (Fig. 131). We now pass to the inner arrangements ; where geometrical combinations will not help us to understand the economy of dis- positions, sometimes sufficiently intricate. Here the architect, to justify his design, will adduce the wants, the destination of the