Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 43:13-17
Ezekiel 43:13-17. These are the measures of the altar The Jews, after their return out of captivity, had an altar long before they had a temple, Ezra 3:3; but the altar here spoken of is an altar in the temple, the mystical temple emblematical of the gospel church; and this altar is mystical too, for Christ is our altar. The bottom shall be a cubit, &c. To render the dimensions here specified of the altar more intelligible to an English reader, it may be best to observe, that it was... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 43:14
The bottom - The basement just described is now called “the bottom upon the ground.” The altar (independently of the bottom) was composed of two stages called “settles,” the base of the “upper settle” (M) being less than that of the “lower” (L).To the lower settle - That is, to the top of “the lower settle,” which was to be “two cubits high.”From the lesser settle ... to the greater settle - i. e., from the top of the “lower settle” to the top of the “upper settle,” called “lesser” and... read more