The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 45:22
The first day of the feast proper, i.e. the fourteenth, should be distinguished by the prince's presenting, for himself and for all the people of the land, a bullock for a sin offering. That this was a deviation from the earlier Mosaic legislation in three particulars is apparent. In, the first place, the "sin offering" here prescribed was manifestly to take precedence of the Paschal feast proper, whereas in the Paschal festival of the so-called priest-code the daffy sacrifices were... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 45:21
The moral of the Passover. This great feast, which was so solemnly though hastily inaugurated, and so solemnly and joyously renewed after a discreditable lapse ( Exodus 12:1-51 .; 2 Chronicles 30:1-27 .), had an historical and also a religious aspect. I. ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE . It recalled one great event of surpassing national interest; it brought back to memory the pitiless cruelty, the blind obduracy, the false confidence of Egypt, and, at the same time, the sad... read more