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     * the goings.
     # 16,32-35; Re 21:16|
     * four.
       It is certainly most obvious to interpret these measures, not
       of cubits, but of the measuring reed which the prophet's
       conductor had in his hand; according to which, the city would
       be about thirty-six miles in circumference, and nine miles on
       each side of the square; which was nearly nine times larger
       than the greatest extent to which Jerusalem ever attained,
       (See on ver. 15; ch. 42:16.)  The large dimensions of the city
       and land were perhaps intended to intimate the extensive and
       glorious propagation of the gospel in the times predicted; and
       the land was not called Canaan, nor the city Jerusalem,
       probably because they were figurative of spiritual blessings
       to the church and to Israel.