Ezekiel 46:1 - Exposition

Like the preceding sections which introduced distinctly new enactments in Ezekiel's Torah (see Ezekiel 44:9 ; Ezekiel 45:9 , Ezekiel 45:18 ), this properly opens with a Thus saith the Lord God , since it refers to the worship that should be celebrated at the gate of the inner court which looketh toward the east. Ewald, after the LXX . ( ἡ πύλη ἡ ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ τῇ ἐσωτέρᾳ ), changes the text so as to read the outer court gate , and understands the statement here made to be a qualification of that contained in Ezekiel 44:1-3 . It is, however, the inner east gate to which the present clause alludes, and the announce-meat made concerning it is that, like the outer east gate, it should be shut on the six working days ; literally, the six days of the business ; but that, unlike the outer east gate, it should be opened on the sabbath (literally, in the day of the sabbath ) and in the day of the new moon , both of which clays had been marked under the Law, and should in future continue to be marked, by special sacrificial celebrations.