It is for the prince, the ruler of the Lord's people; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate and shall go out by the way of the same. It is evident that the prophecy here has Messianic conditions in mind, that we have here "an ideal description of coming realities under the form and aspect of the old relations. " The leaders of the Church of the New Testament were to refrain from all corruptions which brought destruction upon the Old Testament Israel.

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