Introduction
The obligation of the prince to furnish the sacrifices is not limited to the passover (Ezekiel 45:18) and feast of tabernacles (Ezekiel 45:25), but he must also provide for the Sabbaths and new moons and daily offerings. It has already been stated that the outer gate was to be kept perpetually closed (see notes Ezekiel 44:1-3); it is now added that the inner gate must also be shut excepting on Sabbaths and new moons. On such occasions the prince could come as far as the threshold and look through the open gateway at the offering of the sacrifices within, which he himself had provided, but even the king could not enter the holy inner court. The threshold from the earliest time was a peculiarly sacred spot and place of sacrifice. It was the primitive family altar. (See extended argument and illustration in Trumbull’s Threshold Covenant.)
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