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Ezekiel 40:25

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

"And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits." Among these matters, however, it can be asked, since there are four parts of this world, why in this building of the outer court are not four but three gates mentioned? This would rightly have needed to be asked if the Prophet had seen a corporeal rather than a spiritual building. …

Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 2, Homily 7 ↗