Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 47:12
Consumed — Never be consumed, never decay, there shall always be fruit, and enough. Their waters — Those that watered them. Issued out — And so carried a blessing with them.
Consumed — Never be consumed, never decay, there shall always be fruit, and enough. Their waters — Those that watered them. Issued out — And so carried a blessing with them.
Verse Ezekiel 47:12. _SHALL GROW ALL TREES FOR MEAT, WHOSE LEAF SHALL NOT_ _FADE_] A description that suits the righteous, who are still producing - 1. The _fruits_ of _faith_. 2. The _fruits_ of th...
III. THE VISION CONCERNING THE LAND (47-48) CHAPTER 4 7 _ 1. The waters of healing from the temple (Ezekiel 47:1) _ 2. Borders of the land (Ezekiel 47:13) 3. Concerning the stranger in the land ...
EZEKIEL 47, 48. THE HOLY LAND, ITS BEAUTY, BOUNDARIES, AND DIVISIONS. Now that the Temple and its worship, which are indispensable to the welfare of the land, have been described, Ezekiel directs his...
TREES FOR MEAT. Hebrew "trees of meat". Genitive of Relation. App-17. Compare Genesis 2:9. CONSUMED. fail. NEW. ripe. MEDICINE. healing. The Divine provision for preserving and restoring health in t...
The river issuing from the temple. The prophet saw a stream issuing from beneath the threshold of the house, which pursued its way eastward, passing the altar on the south side and emerging into the o...
_according to his months_ EVERY MONTH. For issued, ISSUE. The fruit of these trees shall not "be consumed" i.e. fail; it shall renew itself every month, and the leaves shall be ever green and possess...
WHOSE LEAF SHALL NOT FADE— Flourishing like the trees of paradise; a very proper emblem of the righteous and faithful; _still bringing forth fruit unto holiness, and whose end is everlasting life._ Se...
III. THE FUTURE LAND 47:1-48:35 In his last vision Ezekiel observes the blessing which the people of God would enjoy in the new Temple age. In that blessed land the tribes of Israel would have eternal...
_ And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new...
47:12 fruit (a-36) Or 'ripe fruit,' as 'first-ripe,' Hosea 9:10 . see Note b, Leviticus 2:12 ; Leviticus 23:17 . month, (b-38) Lit. 'according to its months.'...
BE CONSUMED] RV 'fail', ACCORDING TO HIS MONTHS] RV 'every month', MEDICINE] RV 'healing.'...
§ 2. THE ORDINANCES OF THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 40-48) This concluding section of the book is dated in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity, i.e. the fourteenth year after the fall of Jerusalem...
THE LIFEGIVING STREAM Ezekiel was now brought in his vision to the door of the Temple proper. Here he saw a stream of water which came from beneath the threshold somewhat to the S. of the entrance, an...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 47 THE *TEMPLE RIVER – EZEKIEL 47:1-12 V1 The man brought me back to the entran...
Usually trees only have fruit in certain months. But these trees in the *vision did something that would be impossible by natural means. They had fruit all the year. They had fruit because of the wate...
BE CONSUMED. — Better, _fail._ The fruit is to be eaten, but shall not fail to grow as it is wanted. These trees with their supernatural virtues are represented as produced by the waters because “they...
וְ עַל ־הַ נַּ֣חַל יַעֲלֶ֣ה עַל ־שְׂפָתֹ֣ו
RENEWAL AND ALLOTMENT OF THE LAND Ezekiel 47:1; Ezekiel 48:1 IN the first part of the forty-seventh chapter the visionary form of the revelation, which had been interrupted by the important series of...
Again Ezekiel was taken to the door of the house, and there beheld the wonderful symbolic river. Its source was the sanctuary. It proceeded under the threshold, and past the altar, and outward in an e...
First-fruits, or most excellent. (Haydock) --- St. John saw such (Worthington) a tree of life, Apocalypse xxii. (Haydock) --- The doctrine of the gospel, and the study of the sacred books, have the mo...
Here are many similar allusions, such as were before, in reference to the Lord Jesus, and his Gospel. The trees on the bank of this river cannot be misunderstood, if we read what is here said, with wh...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 47 AND 48. The last two Chapter s do not require any lengthened remarks. The waters that issue from the sanctuary represent the life-giving power that proceed...
AND BY THE RIVER ON THE BANKS THEREOF, ON THIS SIDE AND ON THAT SIDE,.... On each side of the river, on the banks of it: SHALL GROW ALL TREES FOR MEAT; such as bear fruit, that may be eaten, and is g...
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new f...
_And by the river, upon the bank thereof, shall grow all trees for meat_ See the note on Ezekiel 47:7. By these trees may be understood, “the plenteous provisions of the gospel, the precious promises...
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, springing lip and bearing the richest kind of food, WHOSE LEAF SHALL NOT FADE, NEITHER SHALL THE F...
THE STREAM OF LIVING WATERS...
SHALL GROW: _ Heb._ shall come up NEW: Or, principal FOR MEDICINE: Or, for bruises and sores...
BY THE RIVER; all along this river, which way soever it runs, it shall make its banks so fruitful, that on both sides thereof it shall be abundantly planted with best trees. Shall grow; take root, flo...
Ezekiel 47:12 bank H8193 river H5158 grow H5927 (H8799) trees H6086 food H3978 leaves H5929 wither H5034 ...
“And by the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf will not wither, nor will its fruit fail. It will bring forth firstfruits every month because it...
CHAPTER EZEKIEL 47:1 THE RIVERS OF LIVING WATER. The first twelve verses of this chapter deal with the vision of rivers of living water flowing from the temple, beginning as a small streamlet and mult...
CONTENTS: River of the new sanctuary. Borders of the land. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Revelation 22:1-2; Zechariah 14:8-9. KEY WORD: River of sanctuary, Ezekiel 47:1
Ezekiel 47:16. _Hamath,_ a city commanding the passage of mount Lebanon, and the north-west boundary of the Israelites. 1 Chronicles 13:5. REFLECTIONS. The jews rejoiced more when they poured water...
_It shall bring forth new fruit according to his months._ OLD TRUTHS AND NEW FORMS It is one proof of the divinity of the Gospel that, while maintaining its own character, unaffected by the changing...
_He measured a thousand cubits._ CURIOUS THINGS IN LIFE This chapter is a chapter of measurement. Everything is meted out, as it were, by so many cubits and inches. The voice is very dogmatic:--“This...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 47:1 The tour brings Ezekiel back into the inner court. The DOOR OF THE TEMPLE (v. Ezekiel 47:1) is that of the sanctuary itself. There begin
THE VISION OF THE HOLY WATERS ISSUING FROM THE TEMPLE. (Chap. 47) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 47:1. “THE HOUSE EASTWARD.” The house is the Temple itself; the waters issued from beneath the south-east...
EXPOSITION As the first part of Ezekiel's vision (Ezekiel 40-43.) dealt with the temple, or "house," and the second (Ezekiel 44-47.) with the ritual, or "worship," so the third, which beans with the p...
CHAPTER 47:1-12. VISION OF THE TEMPLE WATERS. IT is necessary to take the first part of this chapter apart from the second, which relates to a different subject, the new division of the land, and whi...
Now in chapter 47 we find this river that comes forth from this east gate. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, the waters issued out from under the threshold of the...
Ezekiel 47:7; Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 60:21; Isaiah 61:3; Jeremiah 17:8;...