John Trapp on Ezekiel 41:1

CHAP. XLI.

Ver. 1. AFterward] This Chapter is no leſſe dark and difficult then was the former: which made Hierom ready to deſiſt and give over commenting, but that he thought it better to ſay ſomething then nothing, and was brought to know and ſay that the greateſt part of thoſe things he knew, were but the leaſt part of that he knew not. What I do underſtand is good; ſo I think, is that I underſtand not, ſaid Socrates once of a certain dark Author. We may be ſure it is ſo here, and muſt mirari potius quàm rimari: waiting for more light, and praying to that purpoſe, as Epheſ. 1.17, 18.

He brought me to the Temple] Who had hitherto been held in the Porch. There was a new Church to be now erected by the preaching of the Goſpel: and this, the meaſuring of the houſe, chap. 40. of the Temple, 41. of the courts, 42. and of all the parts, noteth.

And meaſured the poſts] Or Fronts, or Frontispiece, as the Vulgar hath it.

Which was the bredth of the Tabernacle] Made of old by Moſes.