Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31
THE RELATION OF PRINCE AND PRIESTS TO THE TEMPLE (Chap. 44)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 44:1. “The gate of the outward sanctuary”—the court of the priests as distinguished from the Temple itself. “This gate shall be shut”—shut to the people, but opened on certain days for the prince (chap. Ezekiel 46:1), he holding the place of God in political concerns, as the priests do in spiritual. Only a prince of the House of David might sit down in the priests’ court. As a mark of respect to an Eastern... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 44:18
This verse recounts but two garments of linen, the bonnet and the breeches, but Exodus 28:39; 1 Samuel 2:18,1 Samuel 2:28; 1 Samuel 14:3, mention a linen coat, or ephod; so they had three linen garments, and a girdle of fine twined linen about to gird the coat fast, yet so as not to make them sweat, or smell offensively. read more