A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 447
lbec.Among the many restorations of the templebased upon Biblical texts, great discrepanciesexist. None of them bear such an air of in-herent probability as to be really convincing.From the texts it is easily seen that the Templeof Solomon had an entrance porch, a rectan-gular chamber lighted by… … TEMPLE thickness of the exteriur wall. Althoiigli thearrangement of tlie phm is clear, the mannerin which the exterior was treated is not known.The very detailed description of the templeseen by Ezekiel in a vision is partly a memoryof the earlier structure and partly a fabric ofthe imagination.…
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