28ο Thyfical and Mifcellaneous 



No Breach Whcii tlic Ufc thcii of thefe Phrafes^ and the Failiion of 



made hi ihe 



Tiiivg. thefe Houfes are rightly confidered, there will be no Reafon, 

 I prefume^ for fuppofmg any Breach to have been made in the 

 ieguL• or yiζ^μJt>ι, fince all that was to be done in the Cafe of 

 the Taralytic, was to carry him up to the Top of the Houfe, 

 either by forcing their Way, through the Crowd, up the Stair 

 Cafe, or elfe by conveying him over fome of the neighbour- 

 ing Terraces ; and there, after they had drawn away the \jiiW\ 

 Veil, to let him down , along the Side of the Roof (through 

 the Opening or Imphmum,) into the Mid β (of the Court) 

 hefore Jefus. 

 Sfnaii Houfes To moft of tliefe Houfes, there is a fmaller one annexed• 

 ThTgreater, which fomctimes rifeth one Story higher than the Houfe ; at 

 other Times confifteth of one or two Rooms only and a Terrace'^ 

 whilft others, that are built, ( as they frequently are) over 

 the Porch or Gate-way, have, if we except the Ground Floor, 

 all the Conveniences that belong to the Houfe. There is a Door 

 of Communication from Them into the Gallery of the Houfe, kept 

 open or fhut at the Difcretion of the Mailer of the Family ; befides 

 another Door, which opens immediately from a Privy-Stairs 

 down into the Porch or Street, without giving the leaft 

 called o\cts. Diftutbance to the Houfe. Thefe Back-Houfes are known by 

 the Name of ^i>^^ Alee or Oleah, (for the Houfe properly fo 

 called is T)ar j^^ or Beet c^^^ and in them Strangers are ufually 

 lodged and entertained ; in them the Sons of the Family are 

 permitted to keep their Concubines ; whither likewife the Men 

 are wont to retire, from the Hurry and Noife of their Fami- 

 lies, to be more at Leifure for Meditation or Diverfions : be- 

 fides the Ufe, they are at other Times put to, in ferving for 

 Wardrobes and Magazines. 

 The Hebrew The "''?y of thc H. Scripturcs is literally the fame Appella- 

 "κατηΓίοτ tioH With ϊ.λ1γ, belug accotdiugly fo rendered in the Arahick 

 ^*""'*' Verfion. We may fuppofe it then to have been a Struolure 

 of the like Contrivance. The little Chamber ' then that was 

 built by the Shunamite for Elifia, (whither, as the Text inftruols 

 us, he retired at his Pleafure, without breaking in upon the 

 private Affairs of the Family, or being in his turn interrupted 



I Let us make a little Chamber I pray thee on the Wall, and let us fet for him there a Bed and a 

 Table and a Stool and a Candlefiickj and it βαΙΙ be when he cometh to us, that ΙιεβαΙΙ turn in 

 thither. 2 Kings 4. 10. 



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