Ezechiel 41:21
The threshold was foursquare, and the face of the sanctuary, sight to sight.
Challoner: The threshold was foursquareThat is, the gate of the temple was foursquare: and so placed as to answer the gate of the sanctuary within.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Limen quadrangulum, et facies sanctuarii, aspectus contra aspectum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ τὸ ἅγιον καὶ ὁ ναὸς ἀναπτυσσόμενος τετράγωνα· κατὰ πρόσωπον τῶν ἁγίων ὅρασις ὡς ὄψις
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַֽהֵיכָ֖ל מְזוּזַ֣ת רְבֻעָ֑ה וּפְנֵ֣י הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ הַמַּרְאֶ֖ה כַּמַּרְאֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
The threshold was four-square. That is, the gate of the temple was four-square, and so placed as to answer the gate of the sanctuary within. (Challoner)
It was not an arch, though not a perfect square, 3 Kings vi. 34.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.