The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:1-12
The consecration of the temple by the entrance into it of the glory of the God of Israel. read more
エゼキエル書 43:6-9 Jcb
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:6
And I heard him (better, one) speaking unto me out of the house; and the (literally, a) man stood by me . Two questions arise—Who was the speaker? and, Who the man? As to the speaker , the natural reply is that the One who addressed Ezekiel from the interior of the "house" was Jehovah himself, whose "glory" had just entered in to take possession of the house, and this view is adopted by most interpreters, though Hengstenberg and Schroder regard the man who stood beside the prophet as... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:7
The LXX . and the Vulgate divide the present verse into two parts, and take the first as equivalent to a solemn word of consecration, the former supplying ἑώρακας the latter vidisti , "thou hast seen." The Chaldee Targum inserts, hic est locus , "this is the place," and in so doing is followed by Luther and the Revised Version. Some word, it is obvious, either a "see!" or a "behold!" must be interpolated, in thought at least, unless one adopts the construction of the Authorized... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:7
The Divine indwelling. There peculiar solemnity in this utterance. The prophet has beheld the return of the Lord's glory to his house , and has seen its courts filled with the mystic luster. He stands in the ironer court, the attendant angel being by his side. And the voice of the Lord, mighty as the sound of many waters, addresses him as the son of man, and assures him that the Eternal. Spirit has now takes up a perpetual abode within his consecrated temple, and that those courts... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:7-9
God's unapproachable sovereignty. God now appears among his people as their Divine Sovereign; the house to which he comes in glorious manifestation is "the place of his throne" ( Ezekiel 43:7 ). There he is resolved to rule. Other kings, human potentates, had been reigning there, but their rule should now be over. They had been usurpers in that they had set up their will against his, "their threshold by his thresholds, their post by his posts" ( Ezekiel 43:8 ); but all such pretensions... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:7-12
Debate exists as to who the speaker in the seventh verse was, whether Jehovah or the man—some holding with Kliefoth, Ewald, Smend, and Currey, that he was Jehovah; others, with Havernick, Keil, Hengstenberg, and Schroder, that he was "the man;" and still others, with Plumptre, that it cannot be decided which he was. One thing is clear, that if "the man" was the speaker, his words and message were not his own, but Jehovah's. Yet unless the man had been the angel of the Lord—the view of... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:8
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds etc. The first "their" can only refer to "the house of Israel and their kings;" the second "their" may also allude to these, but is best taken as pointing to the "idols," whose thresholds or temples, according to the view adopted of the preceding verse, were set up in the court of Jehovah's temple, and so close to the latter that nothing stood between them except the temple wall Smend, who favors the second view of the preceding verse,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:9
Now let them put away their whoredom , etc. What has just been declared to be the necessary consequence of Jehovah's abiding in the midst of Israel is now enjoined upon Israel as an indispensable prerequisite of Jehovah's taking up his residence amongst them. Ezekiel's theology in this respect harmonizes with that of Old and New Testament writers generally, who invariably postulate purity of heart and life as a necessary condition of God's abiding in the heart, while asserting that such... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:1-9
Sunshine after storm. The prophet of Jehovah has inspected all the plans of the second temple. In clearest vision he has seen all its parts arranged. The sacred edifice has grown to perfection before his eyes. Court within court has successively appeared. And now the great question arises, "Will the God of heaven again stoop to dwell there?" In vain will be all this preparation and toil unless Jehovah shall fill the house again with his presence. In vain will be all ceremony and all... read more