George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 45:3
Measure, from the centre of the temple; so that the dimensions given must be doubled, (chap. xlviii. 10.) as also ver. 5.
Measure, from the centre of the temple; so that the dimensions given must be doubled, (chap. xlviii. 10.) as also ver. 5.
Verse Ezekiel 45:3. _AND OF THIS MEASURE_] See the plan, A, B, C, D, E. Ezekiel 48:35....
CHAPTER 45 _ 1. The portions of the priests, the Levites, of the whole house of Israel, and the prince (Ezekiel 45:1) _ 2. Concerning the prince (Ezekiel 45:9) 3. The feast of Passover and the feas...
THE PRIESTS. (_Their estates._) A rectangular space, roughly eight miles by three, in the centre of which was the sanctuary, is to be reserved for the priests. Immediately north of this was an area of...
FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND. about sixty or seventy miles, according to the length of the cubit. MOST HOLY PLACE. holy of holies....
The portion of the sacred land assigned to the priests shall consist of a tract 25,000 long by 10,000 broad. _sanctuary_and _the most holy_ SANCTUARY, (even) THE MOST HOLY THING. The whole area of la...
_5. THE APPORTIONMENT OF THE SACRED PORTION OF THE LAND_ (_45:1-8_) TRANSLATION (1) Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, a holy...
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. No JFB commentary on these ver...
THE LANDS FOR THE PRIESTS, LEVITES, PRINCE, AND CITY The division of the whole country is described in ch. 48, which includes the substance of the present passage, and shows the position of these land...
_And_ THE MOST HOLY _place_] RV 'which is most holy.'...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 45 THE *LORD’S PART OF THE COUNTRY – EZEKIEL 45:1-8 V1 ‘You will divide the cou...
Round the open area were the houses for the priests. Their duties brought them closer to God than anyone else. So their houses should be closer to the *temple than anyone else. The purpose of their li...
OF THIS MEASURE. — If the Hebrew text of Ezekiel 45:1 be preserved unchanged, we must understand this to refer to the whole oblation of 25,000 reeds broad which was in the prophet’s mind, though he do...
וּ מִן ־הַ מִּדָּ֤ה הַ זֹּאת֙ תָּמֹ֔וד
PRINCE AND PEOPLE Ezekiel 44:1; Ezekiel 45:1; Ezekiel 46:1, PASSIM IT was remarked in a previous chapter that the "prince" of the closing vision appears to occupy a less exalted position than the Mes...
Seeing that the priests were to have no inheritance, the next section of the prophecy dealt fittingly with the method of their support. After the distribution of the land, a description of which follo...
If there were no other evidence but what those six verses contain, in proof, that somewhat of an higher nature, and design, than any event which ever yet took place, in the Jewish history, in the exte...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 AND 46. The portion of the priests in the land is assigned them-close to that of the sanctuary. The portion of the Levites was to adjoin that of the priest...
AND OF THIS MEASURE SHALT THOU MEASURE THE LENGTH OF FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND, AND THE BREADTH OF TEN THOUSAND,.... Not that the sense is, that of and according to the cubit measure last mentioned, th...
And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary [and] the most holy [place]. Ver. 3. _The length of fi...
_Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length,_ &c. If we understand these dimensions of _cubits_, it exactly agrees with the opinion of the Jews, that the temple stood in an area o...
And of this measure, that is, according to this measure, SHALT THOU MEASURE THE LENGTH OF FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND AND THE BREADTH OF TEN THOUSAND; AND IN IT SHALL BE THE SANCTUARY AND THE MOST HOLY P...
THE PORTION OF THE LAND...
OF, or _by_, or from this cubit measure, EZEKIEL 45:2, shalt thou measure. So express, that indeed I wonder a dispute can arise; and this justifies the French version, which from this verse no doubt t...
Ezekiel 45:3 district H4060 measure H4058 (H8799) twenty-five H6242 H2568 thousand H505 long H753 ten H6235 thousand...
THE ALLOTMENT OF THE SACRED PORTION. “Moreover when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you will offer a gift-offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land. The length shall be the length of...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's portion of the land and the prince's portion. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, prince. CONCLUSION: In the kingdom age Israel will honor Jehovah with portions of land set apart for divin...
Ezekiel 45:18. _Thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary._ In the ancient tabernacle all the vessels were touched with blood, to purify and consecrate them to sacred...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 45:1 This definition of a sacred space within the wider context of renewed Israel provides a summary that will be described in greater detail in Ezekiel 48:8. Ezekiel depicts t
THE APPORTIONMENT OF TERRITORY AROUND THE TEMPLE (Chap. 45) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 45:1. “DIVIDE BY LOT”—not by casting lots, but by allotment, the several portions being assigned according to rul...
EXPOSITION From the sustenance of the priests (Ezekiel 44:29-26), the new Torah naturally passes in the present chapter to the maintenance of the temple service as a whole, setting forth in the first...
CHAPTER 45. THE SACRED ALLOTMENTS IN LAND AND GIFTS. Ezekiel 45:1. _And when ye shall divide the land by lot, ye shall offer an oblation to the Lord; an holy portion of the land, in length five and...
Now in chapter 45 he describes here the length and all of the city, of the land itself. And it is described here as being, in length twenty-five thousand reeds, and in breadth ten thousand reeds. And...
Ezekiel 48:10...
And in it — In the center of this....