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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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the porch: Joh 10:23; Act 3:11, Act 5:12 an hundred and twenty: As the height of the temple was only thirty cubits, 120 seems too great a height for the porch; but the Syriac, Arabic, and the LXX in the codex Alexandrinus, have only twenty, probably reading, instead of maiah weesrim, "one hundred and twenty," ammoth esrim, "twenty cubits;" which brings it within the proportion of the other measures. 2 Chronicles 3:5
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