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418 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. senting an admirable sight to the beholders. And not even the pavement was neglected by him, for this, too, he splendidly adorned with marble, and then proceeded to the rest, and to the parts out of the temple. He provided spacious exhedrae and oeci on each side, united and attached to the cathedral (palace), and communicating with the entrances to the middle of the tem ple. Which buildings were erected by this our most peaceful Solomon,)- the founder of the temple, for those who require yet the purification and the sprinklings of water and the holy Spirit. So that the prophecy repeated above, seems to consist no longer in words, but in facts and deeds : ' For the glory of this latter house is truly far beyond the former.' " For it was just and consistent, that as her (the church) pas tor and Lord had once submitted to death on her account, and after his suffering had changed that vile body, which he assumed for her sake, into a splendid and glorious body, and had conduct ed the flesh that had been dissolved from corruption into incorruption, that she should likewise enjoy these dispensations J of our Saviour ; because, having received a promise of far better things from him, the far greater glory of a regeneration, in the resurrec tion of an incorruptible body, with the choir of the angels of light, in the very celestial palace of God ; above all these, she desires also to obtain them with Christ Jesus himself, her all-gracious benefactor and Saviour hereafter for ever. In the mean time, * The exhedrae and oeci were vestry-rooms on each side of the cathedral, and connected with it. On each side of the edifice there was a long passage to the body or nave of the building, and these exhedrse and oeci were in the same right line, and communicated with them by doors. They were also baptisteries, consis tories, and, in general, places intended for the various subordinate purposes of the church. See Valesius's note on Book III. De Vit. Const, ch. 1. Also, Bingham's Orig. •j-Eusebius takes occasion to compliment the bishop on his resemblance to the royal founder of the Jewish temple, in the similar capacity which he had here sus tained. In this resemblance, he also alludes to the signification of Solomon's name, peaceful. $ The word oixoyopia, here occurring, is used by our author in the comprehensive sense, for whatever our Saviour did for our salvation. Here it is evidently applied not only to the death but the resurrection of our Lord.