 | Albert Barnes - 1799 - 416 pages
...the "buildings. 'In that temple ' says Josephus, the Jewish historian, ' were several stones which were forty-five cubits in length, five in height, and six in breadth,' seventy feet long, ten wide, and eight high. Those stone«, of such enormous size, were principally... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1814 - 486 pages
...they were exceeding white. On its top it had spikes with sharp points, to prevent any pollution of it by birds sitting upon it. Of its stones, some of...temple stood the altar, fifteen cubits high, and equal hoth in length and breadth; each of which dimensions was fifty cubits. The figure it was built in was... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1815 - 326 pages
...they were exceeding white. On its top it had spikes with sharp points, to prevent any pollution of it by birds sitting upon it. Of its stones, some of them were forty -five cubits in length, five in height, and six in breadth. Before this temple stood the altar,... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1816 - 264 pages
...excepting where it was gilt, "it was of one continued and unrivalled whiteness."1 Of its stones some were forty-five cubits in length, five in height, and six in breadth, and even in greater proportions.3 Such was the sanctity and magnificence of this Temple of Jerusalem... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 610 pages
...they were exceeding white. On its top it had spikes with sharp points, to prevent any pollution of it by birds sitting upon it. Of its stones some of...temple stood the altar, fifteen cubits high, and equal bothjn length and breadth ; each cf which dimensions was fifty cubits. The figure it was built in was... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1836 - 700 pages
...polluting it. There were," continues the Jewish historian, " in that building several stones which were forty-five cubits in length, five in height, and six in breadth.' vl" hen all thrse things are considered, how natural is the exclamation of the disciples when viewing... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1836 - 696 pages
...and polluting it. There were," continues the Jewish historian, "in that building several stones which were forty-five cubits in length, five in height, and six in breadth.' When all these things are considered, how natural is the exclamation of the disciples when viewing... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 pages
...spectator to turn away his gaze from it. According to the Jewish historian, several stones in the building were forty-five cubits in length, five in height, and six in breadth. How natural the exclamation of the disciples, when viewing this immense structure from a distance,... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...spectator could no more bear it than it could the splendour of the sun, — there were stones which were forty-five cubits in length, five in height, and six in breadth. When all these things are considered, how natural is the exclamation of the disciples, -when viewing... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1841 - 892 pages
...and polluting it. There were," continues the Jewish historian, "in thatbuilding several stones which were forty-five cubits in length", five in height, and six in breadth. 3 When all these things are considered, how natural is the exclamation of the disciples when viewing... | |
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But this temple appeared to strangers, when they were coming to it at a distance, like a mountain covered with snow ; for as to those parts of it that were not gilt, they were exceeding white. 
