John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 40:22

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looked towards the east, &c.] (<264014>Ezekiel 40:14,16), signifying that the light of the churches, their privileges, and flourishing condition, will be alike everywhere, as in one part of the world, so in another; (see <235208>Isaiah 52:8 11:9 <271204>Daniel 12:4): and they went up unto it by seven steps; or stairs, (<264006>Ezekiel 40:6), the number of them is not there mentioned as here, but the same in both; (see Gill on “<264006>Ezekiel 40:6”): and the arches thereof were before them; the steps; or “within” them, as the Septuagint; the steps led to the arches of the gate, or to the porch of it, which were more inward.

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