John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:25
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves ,.... Shall not come into places where they are, nor touch them, nor attend their funerals, Leviticus 21:1 , that their work might not be interrupted, or they through grief and sorrow be made unfit for it, Matthew 8:22 , this, in a spiritual sense, may signify, that they should have no conversation or fellowship with men dead in trespasses and sins; and should abstain from all dead works, as all sinful ones are: but for... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 44:17-31
God's priests must be regulars, not seculars; and therefore here are rules laid down for them to govern themselves by and due encouragement given them to live up to those rules. Directions are here given, I. Concerning their clothes; they must wear linen garments when they went in to minister or do any service in the inner court, or in the sanctuary, and nothing that was woollen, because it would cause sweat, Ezek. 44:17, 18. They must dress themselves cool, that they might go the more readily... read more