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The door of the church itself, the Prophet said, had a width of ten cubits, and the verges on both sides were five cubits wide, so that here too the complexity was twenty cubits. He measured, says the Prophet, the church itself, and showed me the length of forty cubits and the width of twenty - evenly with the porch. I saw, says the Prophet, another inner door, which was six cubits wide, and the doorways on both sides were seven cubits. Therefore, fourteen added to six cubits makes a total of twenty. He says that he also saw the doors separating the holy from the holy of holies, and their width was equal to the church, that is, twenty cubits, and the height was forty cubits. Having found the measures in the Syriac and Hebrew lists, I found that the height is equal to the width. For both the Syrian translator and the Hebrew original, in agreement with each other, indicated both the width and height of twenty cubits. The Prophet says that he saw a double building around the church, and other walls built outside the roof, and passages and passages between the two walls. He also explains the reason for this arrangement, for he says that no one should approach the “walls of the church.” And this very circular narrow passage, the Prophet said, was divided into lower and upper, and had windows, narrow on the outside and widened on the inside, which we usually call sloped. He also saw, says the Prophet, two other churches on both sides of the Church of God, one facing north and the other south, and he called the latter a prayer, because it was the custom of the Jews living north of Jerusalem to pray facing the south, in accordance with the position of the city. The Prophet says that between the church of God and the so-called church the distance was five cubits, and from the western wall to this church seventy cubits. The middle was occupied by God's church; Everything in it was covered with boards, not only the walls, but also the floor and ceiling. The windows in it were lattice, that is, they were translucent like frost. The sculptures on the walls and on the doorposts depicted cherubs and dates, each cherub had two faces, a lion's face and a human face, and one was turned to one date, and the other to the other. The Prophet saw two faces sculptured instead of four, because it was impossible to carve an exact image on the boards. The Prophet also says that he saw the breviary in front of the sanctuary; and it was three cubits in height, two in length and the same in breadth, that is, it formed an equilateral quadrangle. From him who showed me this, says the Prophet, I learned that this is “a table before the Lord” (Ezek. 41:22). It should be noted that he called the meal at which the showbread was laid a “breviary,” while the great Moses called it only a meal; therefore, by this prophecy the door to our sacraments is opened. And the door to the Holy Place, the Prophet said, was not double-leafed, but four-leafed, so that when the doors opened, then the doors were folded one on top of the other, and the sculptures on them were the same as everywhere else.