The Temple of Solomon

V. This highly beneficial purpose—namely, the explanation of many sayings and histories in Holy Scripture—was the primary motive original Latin: primum movens for the effort to present original: sistiren the Temple of Solomon with all its courtyards, walls, gates, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies, as well as all the sacred vesselsoriginal Latin: vasis sacris; the ritual objects used in Temple worship. This was done according to the descriptions of the most famous authors in an actual model on a table five ells An "ell" (German: Elle) was a traditional unit of measurement, roughly the length of a man’s forearm, approximately 24 inches. long and nearly five ells wide.

VI. Just as the all-good God has bestowed His divine grace so that this small structure, with all the pieces described original: designirten in the following pages, could be brought into proper order and successfully completed.

VII. We have endeavored to seek the foundation of the entire Temple in the same place where LundiusJohann Lundius (1638–1686), a German pastor and author of a famous scholarly work on the Jewish Temple found it. We have diligently consulted the authors he cited in Book II, Chapter IV, Section 12, so that no column or any part of the building would be placed contrary to the accounts of trustworthy writers original Latin: Scriptorum.

VIII. The first occasion for this construction was provided by a Jewish Rabbi from Prague, who in August 1716 brought a model of Solomon’s Temple made of white wax—one and a half ells long and wide—to Halle, and allowed anyone who desired to see it publicly. He was a man of good knowledge regarding the Jewish Law and their Temple, for whose rebuilding the Jews hope as longingly as we Christians hope for eternal life.

IX. However, the model he made with his own hand showed that he was not particularly experienced in mechanics original Latin: mechanicis and had little knowledge original: Cognition of architecture. For the Holy of Holiesthe inner sanctuary of the Temple, which should have been as long as it was wide, was about five ells wide and nearly twenty ells long. He had surrounded the Temple with many high and pointed towers, like Christian churches, and he made the roofs slope together at the top, both of which are not in accordance with antiquity original: antiquitæt. The columns Jachin and Boaz, which stood freely, he had built into the wall as pilasters. The interior space of the Temple went up to the vault, and there was no upper chamber, though one existed. The fifteen steps upon which the Songs of Ascentsoriginal: Stufen-Psalmen; Psalms 120–134, traditionally sung by Levites on the fifteen steps of the Temple were sung were very flat original: depreß, almost like circles fitted into one another, totaling not even half a finger high—not to mention several other errors.

X. Notwithstanding these [errors], once the resolution was made