The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 45:17
The prince, as receiver-general of the people's offerings, should devote them to maintaining (literally, it should be upon him, and so form part of his duty to maintain) the sacrificial worship of the new temple, in the feasts ( הַגִּים , or joyous celebrations), and in the now moons , and in the sabbaths , and generally in all solemnities ( מוֹעָדִים , or appointed times, hence festal seasons) of the house of Israel , that thereby he might make reconciliation (or, ... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 45:16
All the people of the land shall give (literally, shall be for ) this oblation (or, terumah ) for the prince in Israel . Assuming that the prince here refers to the ordinary civil magistrate, Hengstenborg founds on this an argument in support of state Churches: "This is also the general doctrine, that the magistrate shall take first of all from the taxes levied the means for the proper observance of Divine worship." But if the oblations above referred to were not properly taxes, and... read more