EZEKIEL 40-48. RELIGIOUS ORGANISATION OF THE PEOPLE IN THE MESSIANIC
DAYS.
To a modern taste these Chapter s, crowded with architectural and
ritual detail, may seem dreary and irrelevant: to Ezekiel they are the
real climax of his book, the crown as well as the conclusion of all
his literary and rel... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIESTS. (_Their estates._) A rectangular space, roughly eight
miles by three, in the centre of which was the sanctuary, is to be
reserved for the priests.
Immediately north of this was an area of similar extent for the
Levites (Ezekiel 45:5), and south of it lay the city with its adjacent
terr... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRINCE. (_His duties and rights._) The ominous allusion in Ezekiel
45:8 to the oppression of Israel by her kings in the past leads
Ezekiel to an earnest exhortation to have done with injustice and to
maintain inflexible moral principles in civil and commercial life for
the days to come. This was... [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL 45:18 TO EZEKIEL 46:15. FESTIVALS AND OFFERINGS.
Ezekiel 45:18. The Passover and Harvest Festivals. The mention of the
prince's responsibility for providing the festival offerings is
appropriately followed by a description of the festivals themselves.
And first the two half-yearly festivals... [ Continue Reading ]