The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:1-31

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The prophet, having finished his account of the temple, or place of worship, proceeds, in the second section of his vision (Ezekiel 44-46.), to set forth the culture, or ritual, to be performed in the temple; treating first of the several classes in the new community, and of their relation to the sanctuary (Ezekiel 44:1-31.); next of the regulations to be observed in the maintenance of worship (Ezekiel 45:1-25.); and, thirdly, of certain supplementary orders for the prince, the people, and the priests, when engaged in the solemnities of their religion (Ezekiel 46:1-24.). In particular, the present chapter deals

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commentaryMatthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:1-31This chapter contains ordinances relative to the true priests. The prince evidently means Christ, and the words in 2, may remind us that no other can enter heaven, the true sanctuary, as Christ did; namely, by virtue of…Matthew Henry commentaryMessage of the House of Israel. (b. c. 574.)MESSAGE OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. (B. C. 574.) The prophet is here brought to review what he had before once surveyed; for, though we have often looked into the things of God, they will yet bear to be looked over again, s…Matthew Henry commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:1-3The relation of the prince to the sanctuary.Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:1The gate of the outward sanctuary, the outer gate of the sanctuary (Revised Version)—which looketh toward the east. To this door the prophet was conducted back, by way of the inner north or south gate, from the inner co…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:1-3The prerogative of the prince. The regulation prescribed in these verses is very remarkable, and is not free from difficulties. It appears that a peculiar sanctity attached to the eastern gate of the temple, owing to th…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:2This gate shall be shut, The prophet must have noted this as an important difference between the new sanctuary and the old (whether temple or tabernacle), in which the east gate stood always open. That the gate of the n…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:3It is for the prince conveys an erroneous impression, as if the edict, excluding all from passing through the east outer gate, did not apply to the prince; but even for him the gate was not to serve as a mode of entranc…Joseph S. Exell and contributors commentaryIdolatry of the Levites. (b. c. 574.)IDOLATRY OF THE LEVITES. (B. C. 574.) This is much to the same purport with what we had in the beginning of Ezekiel 43:1-31 As the prophet must look again upon what he had before seen, so he must be told again what he h…Matthew Henry