Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31
Chapter 44Now as we get to chapter 44, we come to a prophecy that is so often misinterpreted. And I must confess to you that I have often misinterpreted this prophecy. And as I read it more carefully and have read it more carefully this time, and this is one of the problems I have with this last portion of Ezekiel, that every time I read it I seem to see something else that I didn't quite understand before and my whole views have to change again.But he brought me back to the way of the gate of... read more
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