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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 454

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albec.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-gidar chamber lighted bj… … TEMPLE thi;.knes8 of tlie cxturior wall. Although theiirraiigemeiit of tlie iiliiii is clear, the mannerill which the exterior was treated is not known.The very detailed (lescrii)tion of the tenii)leseen by Ezckiel in a vision is partly a memoryof the earlier structure and partly a fabric ofthe…

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