Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. Ver. 1. _Thus saith the Lord God._] In this chapter are set forth _rationes et ritus,_ the... [ Continue Reading ]
And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of [that] gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut unti... [ Continue Reading ]
Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons. Ver. 3. _Likewise the people of the land._] The meanest of his subjects, if faithful, may have as near access to God as himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day [shall be] six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. Ver. 4. _Six lambs without blemish._] This was a larger sacrifice than Moses had appointed Num 28:9 - Christians have more cause than Jews had to sanc... [ Continue Reading ]
And the meat offering [shall be] an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. Ver. 5. _As he shall be able to give._] Heb., The gift of his hand. Some render it, According as it shall be given unto his hand - _i.e., _ as God sha... [ Continue Reading ]
And in the day of the new moon [it shall be] a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. Ver. 6. _And in the day of the new moon._] Which pointed them to the coming of Christ, by whom all things are become new. _ It shall be a young bullock._] It was w... [ Continue Reading ]
And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. Ver. 7. _An ephah for a bullock._] This was to shadow out, saith Polanus, the communion of the saints with Christ, and that... [ Continue Reading ]
And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of [that] gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof. Ver. 8. _He shall go in by the way of the porch._] This was the prince's privilege, that, as likewise the priests, he might go in and go out at the same east gate. It is... [ Continue Reading ]
But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return b... [ Continue Reading ]
And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. Ver. 10. _And the prince in the midst of them, &c._] For example sake, _Vita Principis censura est,_ and to see that all things be rightly carried in God's service. And although the prince hat... [ Continue Reading ]
And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. Ver. 11. _An ephah to a bullock, and a hin of oil._] A whole ephah, and a whole hin, whereas in the Mosaical servi... [ Continue Reading ]
Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, [one] shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD [of] a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning. Ver. 13. _Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering._] God must be served daily and duly, not on the Sabbath day only. See Psalms 72:15. The Papists are at the... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD. Ver. 14. _The sixth part of an ephah._] This is also different from the Le... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning [for] a continual burnt offering. Ver. 15. _Every morning._] Understand it of every evening also. _as _ Exo 29:38... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it [shall be] their possession by inheritance. Ver. 16. _If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons._] As Jehoshaphat did cities to every one of his sons; though they long enjoye... [ Continue Reading ]
But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them. Ver. 17. _But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants._] As Alexander the Great, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; [but] he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession. Ver. 18. _To thrust them out of their possession._... [ Continue Reading ]
After he brought me through the entry, which [was] at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there [was] a place on the two sides westward. Ver. 19. _Afterward he brought me._] Here he returneth again to things sacred - viz., to show... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said he unto me, This [is] the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear [them] not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people. Ver. 20. _Where they shall bake the meat offering,_] _i.e., _ The m... [ Continue Reading ]
Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court [there was] a court. Ver. 21. _In every corner of the court there was a court._] And buildings in every of them for the same purpose round about. Eze 46:2... [ Continue Reading ]
In the four corners of the court [there were] courts joined of forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four corners [were] of one measure. Ver. 22. _Courts joined._] Or made with chimneys. _Caminata, vaporaria._ See on Ezekiel 46:21 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And [there was] a row [of building] round about in them, round about them four, and [it was] made with boiling places under the rows round about. Ver. 23. _With boiling places._] Such as the ancients called popinas. “ _Nolo ego Florus esse,_ Latitare per popinas. ” a “I do not wish to be Florus,... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said he unto me, These [are] the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people. Ver. 24. _These are the places of them that boil._] Of God's cooks, who dress spiritual food for the use of his people. See Ezekiel 46:20 .... [ Continue Reading ]