CONTENTS The Prophet, having been led by the hand through all the Apartments of this wonderful house, is now, in the close of the whole, instructed concerning the portions of the people. The several tribes of Israel are enumerated, with their several proportions, and the prophecy closeth with the m... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reader will observe, that the Prophet is here describing the several tribes on the north, according to their portions. I the rather wish to consider the subject spiritually, and therefore cannot but behold what is here said, as being in reference to the glorious state of the Church, in the latte... [ Continue Reading ]
Here are directions, very largely given, for the different services of the several tribes, and their importance; of which we cannot now speak particularly. It is on these points, this striking prophecy more immediately abounds with difficulties. Probably the millennium will explain the whole.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the same observation meets us concerning the southern situation of the tribes, as in the former of the northern. Blessed is it to behold the Lord Jesus Christ the one portion of all!... [ Continue Reading ]
It is hardly possible to read this account of the gates, and of the tribes, in each direction of the gates, without having our minds instinctively led to the contemplation of the beloved Apostle's account of the New Jerusalem. Revelation 21:10, etc. But what crowns all, and gives the highest finishi... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS AND now, Reader! before closing the book of this prophecy, say, what hath the Lord taught thee of its blissful contents? Taken in one great whole, it seems evident, amidst all the obscurity upon those writings of Ezekiel, that it is the Gospel Church, and not the Temple of the Jews, afte... [ Continue Reading ]