GISON, or Geison. Thus Josephus calls Antiq. l.8. c.2. p. 262. & de Bello, l.6.p.918.a little wall about breast-high made round the Temple properly so called, and the Altar of Burnt-sacrifices, to keep the people at a distance. In his Books of Antiquities, he makes it to be three cubits high, and but one, in his history of the Jewish war.
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