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<div2 id="Ez.xlvii" n="xlvii" next="Ez.xlviii" prev="Ez.xlvi" progress="66.63%" title="Chapter XLVI">
<h2 id="Ez.xlvii-p0.1">E Z E K I E L.</h2>
<h3 id="Ez.xlvii-p0.2">CHAP. XLVI.</h3>
<p class="intro" id="Ez.xlvii-p1" shownumber="no">In this chapter we have, I. Some further rules
given both to the priests and to the people, relating to their
worship, <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p1.1" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.1-Ezek.46.15" parsed="|Ezek|46|1|46|15" passage="Eze 46:1-15">ver. 1-15</scripRef>. II.
A law concerning the prince's disposal of his inheritance,
<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p1.2" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.16-Ezek.46.18" parsed="|Ezek|46|16|46|18" passage="Eze 46:16-18">ver. 16-18</scripRef>. III. A
description of the places provided for the boiling of the
sacrifices and the baking of the meat-offerings, <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p1.3" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.19-Ezek.46.24" parsed="|Ezek|46|19|46|24" passage="Eze 46:19-24">ver. 19-24</scripRef>.</p>
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<h4 id="Ez.xlvii-p1.7">Rules Relating to Worship. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p1.8">b. c.</span> 574.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Ez.xlvii-p2" shownumber="no">1 Thus saith the Lord <span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p2.1">God</span>; The gate of the inner court that looketh
toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the
sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall
be opened.   2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the
porch of <i>that</i> gate without, and shall stand by the post of
the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his
peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate:
then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the
evening.   3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at
the door of this gate before the <span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p2.2">Lord</span> in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
  4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto
the <span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p2.3">Lord</span> in the sabbath day <i>shall
be</i> six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.  
5 And the meat offering <i>shall be</i> an ephah for a ram, and the
meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin
of oil to an ephah.   6 And in the day of the new moon <i>it
shall be</i> a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a
ram: they shall be without blemish.   7 And he shall prepare a
meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and
for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and a hin of
oil to an ephah.   8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall
go in by the way of the porch of <i>that</i> gate, and he shall go
forth by the way thereof.   9 But when the people of the land
shall come before the <span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p2.4">Lord</span> in the
solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to
worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that
entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of
the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby
he came in, but shall go forth over against it.   10 And the
prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when
they go forth, shall go forth.   11 And in the feasts and in
the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock,
and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and
a hin of oil to an ephah.   12 Now when the prince shall
prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily
unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p2.5">Lord</span>, <i>one</i> shall then
open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall
prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on
the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth
<i>one</i> shall shut the gate.   13 Thou shalt daily prepare
a burnt offering unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p2.6">Lord</span>
<i>of</i> a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt
prepare it every morning.   14 And thou shalt prepare a meat
offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the
third part of a hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat
offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p2.7">Lord</span>.   15 Thus shall they prepare the
lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning <i>for</i>
a continual burnt offering.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Ez.xlvii-p3" shownumber="no">Whether the rules for public worship here
laid down were designed to be observed, even in those things
wherein they differed from the law of Moses, and were so observed
under the second temple, is not certain; we find not in the history
of that latter part of the Jewish church that they governed
themselves in their worship by these ordinances, as one would think
they should have done, but only by law of Moses, looking upon this
<i>then</i> in the next age after as mystical, and not literal. We
may observe, in these verses,</p>
<p class="indent" id="Ez.xlvii-p4" shownumber="no">I. That the place of worship was fixed, and
rules were given concerning that, both to prince and people.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Ez.xlvii-p5" shownumber="no">1. The east gate, which was kept shut at
other times, was to be opened on the sabbath days, on the moons
(<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p5.1" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.1" parsed="|Ezek|46|1|0|0" passage="Eze 46:1"><i>v.</i> 1</scripRef>), and whenever
the prince offered a voluntary offering, <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p5.2" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.12" parsed="|Ezek|46|12|0|0" passage="Eze 46:12"><i>v.</i> 12</scripRef>. Of the keeping of this gate
ordinarily shut we read before (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p5.3" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.44.2" parsed="|Ezek|44|2|0|0" passage="Eze 44:2"><i>ch.</i> xliv. 2</scripRef>); whereas the other gates
of the court were opened every day, this was opened only on high
days and on special occasions, when it was opened for the prince,
who was to <i>go in by the way of the porch of that gate,</i>
<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p5.4" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.2 Bible:Ezek.46.8" parsed="|Ezek|46|2|0|0;|Ezek|46|8|0|0" passage="Eze 46:2,8"><i>v.</i> 2, 8</scripRef>. Some
think he went in with the priests and Levites into the <i>inner
court</i> (for into that court this gate was the entrance), and
they observe that magistrates and ministers should join forces, and
go the same way, hand in hand, in promoting the service of God. But
it should rather seem that he did not go <i>through</i> the gate
(as the glory of the Lord had done), though it was open, but he
went <i>by the way of the porch of the gate,</i> stood <i>at the
post of the gate,</i> and <i>worshipped at the threshold of the
gate</i> (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p5.5" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.2" parsed="|Ezek|46|2|0|0" passage="Eze 46:2"><i>v.</i> 2</scripRef>),
where he had a full view of the priests' performances at the altar,
and signified his concurrence in them, for himself and for the
people of the land, that stood behind him <i>at the door of that
gate,</i> <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p5.6" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.3" parsed="|Ezek|46|3|0|0" passage="Eze 46:3"><i>v.</i> 3</scripRef>. Thus
must every prince show himself to be of David's mind, who would
very willingly be a <i>door-keeper in the house of his God,</i>
and, as the word there is, <i>lie at the threshold,</i> <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p5.7" osisRef="Bible:Ps.84.10" parsed="|Ps|84|10|0|0" passage="Ps 84:10">Ps. lxxxiv. 10</scripRef>. Note, The greatest of
men are less than the least of the ordinances of God. Even princes
themselves, when they draw near to God, must worship <i>with
reverence and godly fear,</i> owning that even they are unworthy to
approach to him. But Christ is <i>our prince,</i> whom God causes
to <i>draw near</i> and <i>approach to him,</i> <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p5.8" osisRef="Bible:Jer.30.21" parsed="|Jer|30|21|0|0" passage="Jer 30:21">Jer. xxx. 21</scripRef>.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Ez.xlvii-p6" shownumber="no">2. As to the north gate and south gate, by
which they entered into the <i>court of the people</i> (not into
the inner court), there was this rule given, that whoever came in
at the <i>north gate</i> should go out at the <i>south gate,</i>
and whoever came in at the <i>south gate</i> should go out at the
<i>north gate,</i> <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p6.1" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.9" parsed="|Ezek|46|9|0|0" passage="Eze 46:9"><i>v.</i>
9</scripRef>. Some think this was to prevent thrusting and jostling
one another; for God is <i>the God of order, and not of
confusion.</i> We may suppose that they came in at the gate that
was next their own houses, but, when they went away, God would have
them go out at that gate which would lead them <i>the furthest way
about,</i> that they might have time for meditation; being thereby
obliged to go a great way round the sanctuary, they might have an
opportunity <i>to consider the palaces</i> of it, and, if they
improved their time well in fetching this circuit, they would call
it the nearest way home. Some observe that this may remind us, in
the service of God, to be still pressing forward (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p6.2" osisRef="Bible:Phil.3.13" parsed="|Phil|3|13|0|0" passage="Php 3:13">Phil. iii. 13</scripRef>) and not to <i>look
back,</i> and, in our attendance upon ordinances, not to go back as
we came, but more holy, and heavenly, and spiritual.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Ez.xlvii-p7" shownumber="no">3. It is appointed that <i>the people shall
worship at the door of the east gate,</i> where the prince does, he
at the head and they attending him, both <i>on the sabbath and on
the new moons</i> (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p7.1" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.3" parsed="|Ezek|46|3|0|0" passage="Eze 46:3"><i>v.</i>
3</scripRef>), and that, when they come in and go out, the prince
shall be <i>in the midst of them,</i> <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p7.2" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.10" parsed="|Ezek|46|10|0|0" passage="Eze 46:10"><i>v.</i> 10</scripRef>. Note, Great men should, by
their constant and reverent attendance on God in public worship,
give a good example to their inferiors, both engaging them and
encouraging them to do likewise. It is a very graceful becoming
thing for persons of quality to go to church with their servants,
and tenants, and poor neighbours about them, and to behave
themselves there with an air of seriousness and devotion; and those
who thus honour God with their honour he will delight to
honour.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Ez.xlvii-p8" shownumber="no">II. That the ordinances of worship were
fixed. Though the prince is supposed himself to be a very hearty
zealous friend to the sanctuary, yet it is not left to him, no, not
in concert with the priests, to appoint what sacrifices shall be
offered, but God himself appoints them; for it is his prerogative
to institute the rites and ceremonies of religious worship. 1.
Every morning, as duly as the morning came, they must offer <i>a
lamb</i> for a <i>burnt-offering,</i> <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.1" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.13" parsed="|Ezek|46|13|0|0" passage="Eze 46:13"><i>v.</i> 13</scripRef>. It is strange that no mention
is made of the evening sacrifice; but Christ having come, and
having offered himself now <i>in the end of the world</i>
(<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.2" osisRef="Bible:Heb.9.26" parsed="|Heb|9|26|0|0" passage="Heb 9:26">Heb. ix. 26</scripRef>), we are to
look upon him as the evening sacrifice, about the time of the
offering up of which he died. 2. On the sabbath days, whereas by
the law of Moses four lambs were to be offered (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.28.9" parsed="|Num|28|9|0|0" passage="Nu 28:9">Num. xxviii. 9</scripRef>), it is here appointed that (at
the prince's charge) there shall be <i>six lambs</i> offered,
<i>and a ram</i> besides (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.4" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.4" parsed="|Ezek|46|4|0|0" passage="Eze 46:4"><i>v.</i>
4</scripRef>), to intimate how much we should abound in sabbath
work, now in gospel-time, and what plenty of the spiritual
sacrifices of prayer and praise we should offer up to God on that
day; and, if <i>with such sacrifice God is well-pleased,</i> surely
we have a great deal of reason to be so. 3. On the new moons, in
the beginning of their months, there was over and above the usual
sabbath-sacrifices the additional offering of a young bullock,
<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.5" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.6" parsed="|Ezek|46|6|0|0" passage="Eze 46:6"><i>v.</i> 6</scripRef>. Those who do
much for God and their souls, statedly and constantly, must yet,
upon some occasions, do still more. 4. All the sacrifices were to
be <i>without blemish;</i> so Christ, the great sacrifice, was
(<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.6" osisRef="Bible:1Pet.1.19" parsed="|1Pet|1|19|0|0" passage="1Pe 1:19">1 Pet. i. 19</scripRef>), and so
Christians, who are to present themselves to God as living
sacrifices, should aim and endeavour to be—<i>blameless, and
harmless, and without rebuke.</i> 5. All the sacrifices were to
have their meat-offerings annexed to them, for so the law of Moses
had appointed, to show what a good table God keeps in his house and
that we ought to honour him with the fruit of our ground as well as
with the fruit of our cattle, because in both he has blessed us,
<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.7" osisRef="Bible:Deut.28.4" parsed="|Deut|28|4|0|0" passage="De 28:4">Deut. xxviii. 4</scripRef>. In the
beginning, Cain offered the one and Abel the other. Some observe
that the meat-offerings here are much larger in proportion than
they were by the law of Moses. Then the proportion was <i>three
tenth-deals to a bullock,</i> and <i>two to a ram</i> (so many
tenth parts of an ephah) and half a hin of oil at the most
(<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.8" osisRef="Bible:Num.15.6-Num.15.9" parsed="|Num|15|6|15|9" passage="Nu 15:6-9">Num. xv. 6-9</scripRef>); but here,
for every bullock and every ram, a whole ephah and a whole hin of
oil (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.9" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.7" parsed="|Ezek|46|7|0|0" passage="Eze 46:7"><i>v.</i> 7</scripRef>), which
intimates that under the gospel, the great atoning sacrifice having
been offered, these unbloody sacrifices shall be more abounded in;
or, in general, it intimates that as now, under the gospel, God
abounds in the gifts of his grace to us, more than under the law,
so we should abound in the returns of praise and duty to him. But
it is observable that in the meat-offering <i>for the lambs</i> the
prince is allowed to offer <i>as he shall be able to give</i>
(<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.10" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.5-Ezek.46.6 Bible:Ezek.46.11" parsed="|Ezek|46|5|46|6;|Ezek|46|11|0|0" passage="Eze 46:5,6,11"><i>v.</i> 5, 7, 11</scripRef>),
<i>as his hand shall attain unto.</i> Note, Princess themselves
must spend as they can afford; and even in that which is laid out
in works of piety God expects and requires but that we should do
according to our ability, every man <i>as God has prepared him,</i>
<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.11" osisRef="Bible:1Cor.16.2" parsed="|1Cor|16|2|0|0" passage="1Co 16:2">1 Cor. xvi. 2</scripRef>. God has not
<i>made us to serve with an offering</i> (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p8.12" osisRef="Bible:Isa.43.23" parsed="|Isa|43|23|0|0" passage="Isa 43:23">Isa. xliii. 23</scripRef>), but considers our frame and
state. Yet this will not countenance those who pretend a disability
that is not real, or those who by their extravagances in other
things disable themselves to do the good they should. And we find
those praised who, in an extraordinary case of charity, went not
<i>only to their power,</i> but <i>beyond their power.</i></p>
</div><scripCom id="Ez.xlvii-p8.13" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.16-Ezek.46.18" parsed="|Ezek|46|16|46|18" passage="Eze 46:16-18" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Ez.xlvii-p8.14">
<h4 id="Ez.xlvii-p8.15">Laws Concerning the Prince's
Inheritance. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p8.16">b. c.</span> 574.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Ez.xlvii-p9" shownumber="no">16 Thus saith the Lord <span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p9.1">God</span>; If the prince give a gift unto any of his
sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it <i>shall
be</i> their possession by inheritance.   17 But if he give a
gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be
his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince:
but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.   18 Moreover
the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by
oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; <i>but</i> he
shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my
people be not scattered every man from his possession.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Ez.xlvii-p10" shownumber="no">We have here a law for the limiting of the
power of the prince in the disposing of the crown-lands. 1. If he
have a <i>son</i> that is a favourite, or has merited well, he may,
if he please, as a token of his favour and in recompence for his
services, settle some parts of his lands upon him and his heirs for
ever (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p10.1" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.16" parsed="|Ezek|46|16|0|0" passage="Eze 46:16"><i>v.</i> 16</scripRef>),
provided it do not go out of the family. There may be a cause for
parents, when their children have grown up, to be more kind to one
than to another, as Jacob gave to Joseph one portion <i>above his
brethren,</i> <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p10.2" osisRef="Bible:Gen.48.22" parsed="|Gen|48|22|0|0" passage="Ge 48:22">Gen. xlviii.
22</scripRef>. 2. Yet, if he have a servant that is a favourite, he
may not in like manner settle lands upon him, <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p10.3" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.17" parsed="|Ezek|46|17|0|0" passage="Eze 46:17"><i>v.</i> 17</scripRef>. The servant might have the
rents, issues, and profits, for such a term, but the inheritance,
the <i>jus proprietarium—the right of proprietorship,</i> shall
remain in the prince and his heirs. It was fit that a difference
should be put between a child and a servant, like that <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p10.4" osisRef="Bible:John.8.35" parsed="|John|8|35|0|0" passage="Joh 8:35">John viii. 35</scripRef>. <i>The servant abides
not in the house for ever,</i> as the son does. 3. What estates he
gives his children must be of his own (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p10.5" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.18" parsed="|Ezek|46|18|0|0" passage="Eze 46:18"><i>v.</i> 18</scripRef>): He <i>shall not take of the
people's inheritance,</i> under pretence of having many children to
provide for; he shall not find ways to make them forfeit their
estates, or to force them to sell them and so <i>thrust his
subjects out of their possession;</i> but let him and his sons be
content with their own. It is far from being a prince's honour to
increase the wealth of his family and crown by encroaching upon the
rights and properties of his subjects; nor will he himself be a
gainer by it at last, for he will be but a poor prince when the
people are <i>scattered every man from his possession,</i> when
they quit their native country, being forced out of it by
oppression, choosing rather to live among strangers that are free
people, and where what they have they can call their own, be it
ever so little. It is the interest of princes to rule in the hearts
of their subjects, and then all they have is, in the best manner,
at their service. It is better for themselves to gain their
affections by protecting their rights than to gain their estates by
invading them.</p>
</div><scripCom id="Ez.xlvii-p10.6" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.19-Ezek.46.24" parsed="|Ezek|46|19|46|24" passage="Eze 46:19-24" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Ez.xlvii-p10.7">
<h4 id="Ez.xlvii-p10.8">Buildings about the Temple. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Ez.xlvii-p10.9">b. c.</span> 574.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Ez.xlvii-p11" shownumber="no">19 After he brought me through the entry, which
<i>was</i> at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the
priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there
<i>was</i> a place on the two sides westward.   20 Then said
he unto me, This <i>is</i> the place where the priests shall boil
the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake
the meat offering; that they bear <i>them</i> not out into the
utter court, to sanctify the people.   21 Then he brought me
forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four
corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court
<i>there was</i> a court.   22 In the four corners of the
court <i>there were</i> courts joined of forty <i>cubits</i> long
and thirty broad: these four corners <i>were</i> of one measure.
  23 And <i>there was</i> a row <i>of building</i> round about
in them, round about them four, and <i>it was</i> made with boiling
places under the rows round about.   24 Then said he unto me,
These <i>are</i> the places of them that boil, where the ministers
of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Ez.xlvii-p12" shownumber="no">We have here a further discovery of
buildings about the temple, which we did not observe before, and
those were places to boil the flesh of the offerings in, <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p12.1" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.20" parsed="|Ezek|46|20|0|0" passage="Eze 46:20"><i>v.</i> 20</scripRef>. He that kept such a
plentiful table at his altar needed large kitchens; and a wise
builder will provide conveniences of that kind. Observe, 1. Where
those boiling-places were situated. There were some at the entry
into the inner court (<scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p12.2" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.19" parsed="|Ezek|46|19|0|0" passage="Eze 46:19"><i>v.</i>
19</scripRef>) and others under the rows, in the four corners of
the outer court, <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p12.3" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.21-Ezek.46.23" parsed="|Ezek|46|21|46|23" passage="Eze 46:21-23"><i>v.</i>
21-23</scripRef>. These were the places where, it is likely, there
was most room to spare for this purpose; and this purpose was found
for the spare room, that none might be lost. It is a pity that holy
ground should be waste ground. 2. What use they were put to. In
those places they were to <i>boil the trespass-offering and the
sin-offering,</i> those parts of them which were allotted to the
priests and which were more sacred than the flesh of the
peace-offerings, of which the offerer also had a share. There also
they were to <i>bake the meat-offering,</i> their share of it,
which they had from the altar for their own tables, <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p12.4" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.46.20" parsed="|Ezek|46|20|0|0" passage="Eze 46:20"><i>v.</i> 20</scripRef>. Care was taken that
they should not <i>bear them out into the outer court, to sanctify
the people.</i> Let them not pretend to sanctify the people with
this holy flesh, and so impose upon them; or let not the people
imagine that by touching those sacred things they were sanctified,
and made any the better or more acceptable to God. It should seem
(from <scripRef id="Ez.xlvii-p12.5" osisRef="Bible:Hag.2.12" parsed="|Hag|2|12|0|0" passage="Hag 2:12">Hag. ii. 12</scripRef>) that
there were those who had such a conceit; and therefore the priests
must not carry any of the holy flesh away with them, lest they
should encourage that conceit. Ministers must take heed of doing
any thing to bolster up ignorant people in their superstitious
vanities.</p>
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