BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
may have been one, but whether one or many the library or library-archive was in the Treasury, in whose porticos also Jesus Christ walked and taught and in some adjoining chamber to which He sat, hearing the teachers and asking questions, when He went up to the temple at the age of twelve years. In this lecture room, reading room, or schola, according to Greek and Roman usage, the council might also meet—which suggests the "Chamber of the counsellors" which has been by some located in the "House between the two gates"—but whether this could adjoin the treasury is a question. At all events all those elements, library, portico for walking instruction, council room, schola, are known to have been in the temple at this time somewhere, probably all in the inner temple.
Neither teaching nor council meetings were, however, confined to the inner temple. Both Jesus and the Apostles taught
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