And the four tables were of hewn stone
These are either the same tables as before, the four that were on one side, and the four that were on the other; they were all made of hewn stone: in the second temple they were made of marble; so it is said in the Misnah F17,
``the marble tables were between the pillars;''and they were made of marble, as the commentators F18 say, because that cools the flesh, and preserves it from corruption: they were both decent and durable; and may denote the continuance of the ordinance of the Lord's supper till his second coming; and which is a decent and becoming ordinance, as well as perpetual: or these were other four tables, as Cocceius thinks; and which he places without the porch, near the cell or chamber, where the burnt offering was washed, ( Ezekiel 40:38 ) , and these are said to be for that, as follows, for the burnt offering:
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