Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 40:2
In the visions of God — By this it appears it was not a corporeal transportation of the prophet. The frame — The portrait of a city. On the south — On the south of the mountain, where the prophet was set.
In the visions of God — By this it appears it was not a corporeal transportation of the prophet. The frame — The portrait of a city. On the south — On the south of the mountain, where the prophet was set.
Verse Ezekiel 40:2. _SET ME UPON A VERY HIGH MOUNTAIN_] Mount _Moriah_, the mount on which Solomon's temple was built, 2 Chronicles 3:1....
BY WHICH - Better as in the margin. (compare Ezekiel 43:12). AS THE FRAME OF A CITY - It is not “a city” which is seen, but a building (the temple and its courts) like a city in its construction, sur...
Chapter s 40-48. The final nine Chapter s of this book form the climax of the great prophecies of Ezekiel; they belong to the most difficult in the entire prophetic Word. Once more the hand of the Lor...
EZEKIEL 40-48. THE TEMPLE. Ezekiel 40:1. It is worthy of note that the sketch starts with the old familiar phrases the hand of Yahweh was upon me and in the visions of God (_cf._ Ezekiel 1:1). These...
VISIONS OF GOD. Compare Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 43:3. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THE LAND OF ISRAEL. One of the three occurrences in Ezekiel with _'erete_ instead of _'admath_. See notes
_visions of God_ ch. Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 11:24. _a very high mountain_ The site is the ancient hill of Zion, but it is now exalted above the hills,...
Ezekiel 40:1-27. The outer gateway and court In the 25th year of Jehoiachin's captivity, which was the 14th year after the fall of the city (b.c. 572), the prophet fell into a prophetic trance (Ezeki...
SET ME UPON A VERY HIGH MOUNTAIN— The expression points out mount Moriah, whereon the temple was built. It is here called _a very high mountain,_ because it represents the seat of the Christian church...
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN GOD'S FUTURE TEMPLE 40:1-43:12 The Book of Ezekiel ends as it began, with a vision. In Chapter s 1-3 Ezekiel sees a vision illustrating how God had visited His people in Exile; these...
In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south. IN THE VISIONS OF GOD - divinely-sent visions....
40:2 upon (b-23) Or 'by.'...
THE NEW TEMPLE Ezekiel, transported in vision to Palestine, is set down on the N. side of the Temple mountain, and sees the Temple buildings extending to the S. like a city. A supernatural figure, li...
At first sight, Ezekiel thought that he saw a city. But actually, this was just the *temple and the *holy buildings that surrounded it. The old *temple was in a city, that is, Jerusalem. But Ezekiel s...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ ABOUT EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 Terrible events happened in Jerusalem during Ezekiel’s...
IN THE VISIONS OF GOD. — This expression presupposes that what follows is an ideal description rather than an account of anything that ever had or ever should have a literal existence. The same expres...
בְּ מַרְאֹ֣ות אֱלֹהִ֔ים הֱבִיאַ֖נִי אֶל ־אֶ֣רֶץ...
THE IMPORT OF THE VISION WE have now reached the last and in every way the most important section of the book of Ezekiel. The nine concluding Chapter s record what was evidently the crowning experienc...
This final section must be studied in relation to all that has immediately preceded it, wherein the spiritual restoration and cleansing of the people had been foretold. The picture of the restored ord...
Mountain; Moria, in spirit. On the eastern side, the road to the city was level. Walls were added after the captivity, on the other sides. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 6.) --- City, the temple was so la...
There is somewhat very striking in the Prophet's method of describing this vision: the hand of the Lord (he saith) was upon him. And certain it is, that whosoever reads this Chapter, and all the remai...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 40, 41, 42, AND 43. The remaining part of the prophecy is the establishment of His sanctuary in the midst of His people. The reader will perceive that we find...
IN THE VISIONS OF GOD BROUGHT HE ME INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL,.... Or by the spirit of prophecy, as the Targum again; that is, being under the impressions of the Spirit of God, it appeared to him, in a...
In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which [was] as the frame of a city on the south. Ver. 2. _Brought he me,_] _i.e., _ The Spirit br...
_In the five and twentieth year of our captivity_ Of the captivity of those that were carried away with Jehoiachin, eleven years before Jerusalem was taken. _In the beginning of the year_ In the month...
In the visions of God, in which his mind was entirely detached from his body, BROUGHT HE ME INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND SET ME UPON A VERY HIGH MOUNTAIN, figurative for the mountain of God's holiness,...
THE VISION OF THE TEMPLE-BUILDING. The remaining Chapter s of Ezekiel's prophecy give an ideal picture of the spiritual temple of the Lord, of His Church of the New Testament, of his glorious kingdom....
BY WHICH: Or, upon which...
IN THE VISIONS: by this it appears it was not a corporeal transumption of the prophet: see EZEKIEL 8:3. BROUGHT ME: see EZEKIEL 40:1. INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL; the land of Canaan was in a scheme repres...
Ezekiel 40:2 visions H4759 God H430 took H935 (H8689) land H776 Israel H3478 set H5117 (H8686) very...
THE NEW TEMPLE (EZEKIEL 40:1 TO EZEKIEL 48:35). The book of Ezekiel began with a vision of the glory of God and the coming of the heavenly chariot throne of God in order to speak directly to His peopl...
CONTENTS: Vision of the man with the measuring reed. The future temple and its service. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, sons of Zadok. CONCLUSION: A great and beautiful temple, framed in detail in the cou...
Ezekiel 40:1. _In the five and twentieth year of our captivity._ When the pious jews were dispirited, the Lord revived them with the hopes of a better temple than that which Solomon had built. This wh...
_A measuring reed._ THE MEASURING REED It is a complex and mysterious thing,--this human life which it is appointed us to live. At first glance it seems as if it were simply the outflowing of ourselv...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 40:1 Vision of Restoration. With the last date in the book appearing at Ezekiel 40:1, Ezekiel arrives at the beginning of the end. The book’s fin
THE IDEAL TEMPLE OF THE FUTURE (Chap. 40) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 40:1. “IN THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH YEAR.” The fiftieth year from the 18th of Josiah, the year of his memorable passover (2 Kings 22:1...
EXPOSITION The magnificent temple-vision, as it is usually styled, a description of which forms the closing section of this book (Ezekiel 40-48.), was the last extended" word" communicated to the prop...
CHAPTER 40:1-48. THE POSITION, WALLS, GATES, AND COURTS OF THE TEMPLE. IT is not our purpose to go into greater length on the details of this closing vision, than is absolutely necessary to convey a...
We want to get into the study of Ezekiel tonight, and right off the top I would like to confess to you that of all of the Bible and the passages in the Bible, I understand this the least. I do not pre...
1 Chronicles 28:12; 1 Chronicles 28:19; 2 Corinthians 12:1; Acts 16:9;...