middle chamber by winding stairs in the southern shoulder of the House, and from the middle into the upper. Some time after this Temple was built, the _Jews_ [473] added a _New Court_, on the eastern side of the _Priests Court_, before the _King's gate_, and therein built [474] a covert for the Sabbath: this Court was not measured by _Ezekiel_, but the dimensions thereof may be gathered from those of the _Womens Court_, in the second Temple, built after the example thereof: for when _Nebuchadnezzar_ had destroyed the first Temple, _Zerubbabel_, by the commissions of _Cyrus_ and _Darius_, built another upon the same area, excepting the _Outward Court_, which was left open to the _Gentiles_: and this Temple [475] was sixty cubits long, and sixty broad, being only two stories in height, and having only one row of treasure-chambers about it: and on either side of the _Priests Court_ were double buildings for the Priests, built upon three rows of marble pillars in the lower story, with a row of cedar beams or pillars in the stories above: and the cloyster in the lower story looked towards the _Priests Court_: and the _Separate Place_, and _Priests Court_, with their buildings on the north and south sides, and the _Womens Court_, at the east end, took up an area three hundred cubits long, and two hundred broad, the _Altar_ standing in the center of the whole. The _Womens Court_ was so named, because the women came into it as well as the men: there were galleries for the women, and the men worshipped upon the ground below: and in this state the second Temple continued all the Reign of the _Persians_; but afterwards suffered some alterations, especially in the days of _Herod_. This description of the Temple being taken principally from _Ezekiel_'s Vision thereof; and the ancient _Hebrew_ copy followed by the Seventy, differing in some readings from the copy followed by the editors of the present _Hebrew_, I will here subjoin that part of the Vision which relates to the _Outward Court_, as I have deduced it from the present _Hebrew_, and the version of the Seventy compared together. Ezekiel chap. xl. ver. 5, &c.