28o Phvfical and Mifcelhmeous 



No Breach Whcii the Ufe then of thefe Phrafes^ and the Fafliion of 



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Ti/h's- thefe Houfes are rightly confidered^ there will be no Keaion, 

 I prefume, for fuppoling any Breach to have been made in the 

 tegulce or yl^i^^, fince all that was to be done in the Cafe of 

 the Taralytk, 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 \jiW] 

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

 the Opening or Implm'mm,) into the Midft (of the Court) 

 before Jefus. 



Small Houfes To iiioft of thefc Houfcs, there is a fmaller one annexed ; 



"tlTgrLtn; which fometimes rifeth one Story higher than theHoufe; 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 Ihut at the Difcretion of the Mafter of the Family ; belides 

 another Door, which opens immediately from a Privy-Stairs 

 down into the Porch or Street, without giving the leaft 



called oiecs. Difturbance to the Houfe. Thefe Back-Houfes are known by 

 the Name of ^f>^^ ^lee 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 Thc r,»'?j; of the H. Scriptures is literally the fame Appella- 



"Lme^f^r tiott with s-aV", beiug accordingly fo rendered in the Arahtch 

 Verfion. We may fuppofe it then to have been a Structure 

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

 built by the Shunamite for EliJJja, (whither, as the Text inftrud:s 

 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 Qandlefiichj and it Jhall be when he comcth to us, that heJJjall turn In 

 thither, z Kings 4. 10. 



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