shall so forth Go must be read, the prince being subject. Heb. text reads: when they go forth they shall go forth(i.e. prince and people; R.V. to make this plain supplies together). This is a very unnatural reading. Read in either way the words mean that the prince and people come in and go out simultaneously. This would suggest that the worshipping of the prince and people was contemporaneous with the act of the priests in offering, and that when this act was over the people dispersed and the prince departed. The Syr. followed by Corn. reads: but the prince in their midst, by the gate at which he came in shall he go outfinding a repetition of Ezekiel 46:8, giving a freedom to the prince denied to the people (Ezekiel 46:9).

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