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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:4

From the outside of the east gate of the outer court the prophet was brought the way of the north gate , but whether of the outer or of the inner is uncertain, and set down before the house. On the ground that the prophet at his new station was in front of the temple, Hitzig, Keil, and others decide for the north gate of the inner court; whereas Kliefoth, looking to the circumstance that the first communications made to the prophet at his new post concerned "the entering in of the house,"... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:4

Reverence. The prophet was brought "the way of the north gate before the house," because it was thence that, on a previous occasion, he had been directed to gaze upon the provision for idolatrous worship which aroused the indignation of Jehovah. Instructions were about to be given which would be the means of preventing a repetition of the infamous defilement of God's holy place which in times past had taken place within the temple precincts. And that a suitable impression might be made,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:4-9

Church-worship vital to the soul. As the heart is vital to the body, and sends its tide of life to every organ in the system, so the sanctuary is the central source of spiritual life to the human commonwealth. What the Church is, the home will be, the town will be, the nation will be. The guilt contracted by Israel in the temple was a fount of iniquity whence defilement spread to every part of the body politic. The sin of the sanctuary was the sin of sins. On the other hand, the sanctuary... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:4-16

The relations of the people , Levites , and priests to the sanctuary . read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:5

Having fallen on his face before the renewed theophany, the prophet was summoned as once before ( Ezekiel 40:4 ), but with greater emphasis than before, to mark well, or set his heart to observe, the communications about to be made to him concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and. all the laws thereof (see on Ezekiel 43:11 ), more especially with regard to the persons who should have a right to participate in its services. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:5

The attentive consideration of religious truth. Ezekiel was to mark well the minute directions which were given to him concerning the temple. He was not a builder, and there is no reason to think that he was expected to consider these matters with a view to carrying out the work of constructing the new temple. But it was important that he should attend to the suggestiveness of every detail, because all that was here set forth was symbolical of spiritual truth. The smallest points of this... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:6

Let it suffice you of all your abominations . It was not without sights canoe that at the north gate, which had formerly been represented as the scene of Israel's idolatries ( Ezekiel 8:5 ), the prophet should be reminded of those past iniquities of his nation, and receive instructions as to how the new community should be preserved from lapsing into similar transgressions. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:6

A sufficiency of sin. I. OBSERVE IN WHAT THE SUFFICIENCY OF SIN CONSISTS . All sin is in excess of what it should be, for no sin is permissible. How, then, can there be such a thing as a sufficiency of it? We may regard this as an ironical idea, or as a thought that is useful in the argumentum ad hominem . It is as though a man had said he must have some sin, and now the question is raised—Has he not had enough? Those who sin greatly may be said to have had more than... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:7

The special sin chargeable against Israel in the past had been the introduction into the sanctuary, while the priests were engaged in sacrifice, of strangers — aliens (Revised Version); literally, sons of a stranger— uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh , in express contravention of Jehovah's covenant. Ewald, Havernick, Hengstenberg, Schroder, and Currey restrict the designation "strangers" to unfaithful and unauthorized priests, who, as in the days of Israel's apostasy,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:8

Instead of having exercised a holy solicitude for the purity of the temple and the regularity of its rites, by keeping strict watch over the holy things of Jehovah, the house of Israel had set keepers ; literally, had set them , i.e. the uncircumcised "strangers" above referred to, as keepers of Jehovah's charge in his sanctuary for themselves , i.e. to please themselves, irrespective altogether of Jehovah's enactments. From this it has been argued, by Wellhausen, Smend, Driver,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:4

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