To the gate. — There business was transacted. (Comp. the expression, which is still used with reference to the Turkish Empire, of “the Sublime Porte,” or the supreme Place of government; Psalms 127:5; Jer. 35:20, &c.)
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Job 29:7
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!