| Ezekiel 41:6
| And the side-chambers one by another, were twice thirty-three; and they bore outwards, that they might enter in through the wall of the house in the sides round about, to hold in, and not to touch the wall of the temple.
| One by another, or one over another: literally, side to side, or side upon side. (Challoner) --- The word side is here equivocal, like Hebrew tsela, sometimes denoting the boards, and at other times the apartments round the temple, except on the west, over against the sanctuary, which seems to be the case here. It is true, we shall not easily find sixty-six chambers. But the Hebrew, etc., have only thirty-three. (Calmet) --- Villalpand rightly translated anterides, (ver. 5.) but here he substitutes trabes, "beams or thick planks," to make it agree with 3 Kings 6:6., as if the same temple were meant. He also adopts the Vulgate bis. --- Twice. Hebrew pehamim. Yet he afterwards places in his commentary, pedes, "thirty-three feet, that is twenty-two cubits," though feet are never used at all as a measure in Scripture. (Houbigant)
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