The gate of Nicanor, or the east gate of the court of Israel.
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The history alleged is thus:--Nicanor was one of the captains of the Greeks; and every day he wagged his hand towards Judea and Jerusalem, and said, "Oh! when will it be in my power, to lay them waste!" But when the Asmonean family prevailed, they subdued them, and slew him, and hung up his thumbs and great toes upon the gates of Jerusalem. Hence 'Nicanor's day' is in the Jewish calendar.
This gate was 'fifty cubits in height'; the doors contained forty cubits, and very richly adorned with silver and gold, laid on to a great thickness.
In that gate sat a council of three and twenty; as there was another in the gate of Susan.
None of the gates had (a small scroll of paper fixed to the posts), but the gate of Nicanor.