EZEKIEL 40-48. RELIGIOUS ORGANISATION OF THE PEOPLE IN THE MESSIANIC DAYS. To a modern taste these Chapter s, crowded with architectural and ritual detail, may seem dreary and irrelevant: to Ezekiel they are the real climax of his book, the crown as well as the conclusion of all his literary and rel... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SABBATH, NEW MOON, AND OTHER FESTIVALS. On the Sabbath day, seven animals, besides meal and oil, were to be offered; on the new moon the offering was the same, with the addition of a bullock. The prince, who might not enter into the sacred inner court, watched the sacrifice being offered from hi... [ Continue Reading ]
CROWN RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS. The prince was at liberty to gift part of his estate inalienably to his sons: but what was deeded to a courtier reverted to the crown on the year of release (_i.e._ the seventh year, _cf._ Jeremiah 34:14, or, less probably, the fiftieth year, _cf._ Leviticus 25:10). Th... [ Continue Reading ]
KITCHENS FOR PRIESTS AND PEOPLE. To preserve the distinction between the less and the more holy there were two sets of kitchens for the boiling and baking of the sacrificial offerings for the priests, at the north-west and south-west corners of the inner court, and for the people at the four corners... [ Continue Reading ]