And the height in the breadth was five cubits— The Hebrew is, and its height in the breadth: an expression, which specifies only the height of the hanging.

REFLECTIONS.—Behold a figure of the church of God: a little inclosure, with Christ in the midst of it, and his worshippers around him, separated from the world, and ready to remove out of it. Death is coming to fold up the curtains; and then we shall have a more durable abode, translated from the church militant on earth, to the church triumphant in heaven.

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