a fortress in Jerusalem, on the north side of the area of the temple, originally built by the Maccabees, under the name of Baris, and afterwards rebuilt with great strength and splendour by the first Herod. Josephus states that the fortress stood upon a rock or hill fifty cubits high, at the north-west corner of the temple area, above which its walls rose to the height of forty cubits. Within, it had the extent and appearance of a palace, being divided into apartments of every kind, with galleries and baths, and broad halls or barnacks for soldiers; so that, having everything necessary within itself, it seemed a city, while in magnificence it resembled a palace. The fortress communicated with the northern and western porticoes of the temple area, and had flights of stairs descending into both, by which the garrison could at any time enter the courts of the temple, and prevent tumults. This is the "castle" into which Paul was carried from the temple by the soldiers; and from the stairs of which he addressed the people collected in the adjacent court (Acts xxi. 31-40).

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