BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
and there is hardly so much as a chance that Herod or Augustus, planning for this temple at this time, should not have provided a public library or libraries in connection with it. Indeed no one in any Greek or Roman city of the time would not have done so. On the other hand the archive was an "archive" not a "library-archive," and the chances are that the Greek books were not kept there. Again it was inevitably in a Portico, wherever it was, and near a council room. Once more both Jesus Christ and his Apostles taught in Solomon's porch which suggests, perhaps implies, an adjoining library i.e. the usual place of public teaching implies it. Again the ground plan of the Roman libraries of Augustus all show a central council room or "schola" or both, combined with libraries on both sides—Greek on one, Latin on the other. Once more the entrances at the south permit of it—coming in underneath and leaving
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