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“This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
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Verse 12. Border. Nothing but the temple shall be on his mountain. It shall be wholly consecrated to the Lord. This was ill observed. The Asmonean princes erected the famous tower Antonia, at the north side. Jos. See verse 8. The Jews assert that it was unlawful to spit on this ground, and so forth but no such thing is specified in Josephus or in Scripture, only we find that none were to go out by the same door at which they had entered, (Calmet. 46:9. Calmet.) except the king.
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