CHAPTER 40-48. PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE VISION IN CHAP. 40-48, WITH RESPECT TO THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH IT OUGHT TO BE INTERPRETED. WE have now, with God's help, reached the closing vision of Ezekiel's prophecies; but so far from seeing all difficulties behind us, we find ourselves in front of the... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 40:1-48. THE POSITION, WALLS, GATES, AND COURTS OF THE TEMPLE. IT is not our purpose to go into greater length on the details of this closing vision, than is absolutely necessary to convey a pretty distinct idea of the revelation contained in it. And as the readiest and most satisfactory w... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 40:5. _And behold a wall outside the house (viz. the house of God) round about, and in the man's hand a measuring rod of six cubits, by the cubit and an handbreadth;_ (The exact proportions of the Hebrew measures of length cannot be ascertained with absolute correctness, as they were derived... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 40:17. _And he brought me to the outer court, and lo, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court round about; thirty rooms for the pavement._ Ezekiel 40:18. _And the pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this is the lower pavement._ Ezekie... [ Continue Reading ]
Now follows a brief description of the north and south gates: Ezekiel 40:20. _And the gate of the outer court which looks toward the north he measured in its length and its breadth._ Ezekiel 40:21. _And its three chambers were on the one side, and three on the other; and its pillars and its porche... [ Continue Reading ]
Having thus finished the boundary wall and the outer court, he comes to the inner court: Ezekiel 40:28. _And he brought me to the inner court, by the south gate; and he measured the gate beyond the south according to these measures (the measures, namely, of the outer gate the inner were of the same... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 40:44. _And outside the inner gate were apartments for the singers in the inner court, which were alongside the north gate, and looking toward the south; and one alongside the east gate, looking toward the north._ Ezekiel 40:45. _And he said to me, This apartment which looks towards the sou... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPER 40:48-41:11. THE TEMPLE ITSELF. Ezekiel 40:48. _And he brought me to the porch of the house, and he measured for the porch five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other; and the breadth of the gate three cubits on the one side, and three cubits on the other._ Ezekiel 40:49. _The... [ Continue Reading ]