The appearance of brass - Brightly shining.
A line of flax - For measuring the ground plan.
A measuring reed - For the walls (compare Jeremiah 31:38). To measure implied a separation for sacred purposes. The measurements are:
(1) exact, to show that the promise is certain;
(2) equal, to denote harmony;
(3) vast, to mark majesty and grandeur.
Verse Ezekiel 40:3. _A MAN, WHOSE APPEARANCE_ WAS _LIKE - BRASS_] Like _bright_ _polished brass_, which strongly reflected the rays of light. Probably he had what we would term a _nimbus_ or _glory_ r...
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...
BEHOLD, Figure of speech _Asteriamos_. App-6. MAN. Hebrew tsh. App-14. REED. See App-51....
there was _a man_ The "man" is not to be identified with Jehovah himself, who brought the prophet to him. It is scarcely necessary to enquire who the man is. He is a creation of the prophet's own mind...
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...
A MAN, &C.— That is, an angel deputed from God to give him the dimensions of the temple. See chap. Ezekiel 1:7 and Ezekiel 43:6. The Hebrew _cubit_ was equal to about eighteen inches of our measure. T...
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...
And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. BEHOLD,...
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...
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...
The man was like *bronze. Clearly, this was not an ordinary man. Ezekiel’s guide to this *temple would be an *angel. The *angel moved and walked like a man. But his skin seemed like metal. So the *ang...
A LINE OF FLAX... A MEASURING REED. — The former for the longer, the latter for the shorter measures, a characteristic definiteness in details....
וַ יָּבֵ֨יא אֹותִ֜י שָׁ֗מָּה וְ הִנֵּה ־אִישׁ
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...
And he brought me there, and, behold, [there was] a (b) man, whose appearance [was] like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. (b)...
_Brass: shining. (Haydock) --- This angel waited for the prophet at the northern gate, but introduced him by that looking towards the east, ver. 16. --- Line. It seems never to have been used. (Calmet...
The place to which the Prophet was brought by vision, no doubt was Jerusalem. Here is nothing said of a Temple, but of a city: but from what follows in this Chapter, and the several succeeding ones, t...
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...
AND HE BROUGHT ME THITHER,.... Being brought into the land of Israel in vision, and to a high mountain in it, by which were as the frame of a city; he was from thence brought to the city or temple its...
And he brought me thither, and, behold, [there was] a man, whose appearance [was] like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. Ver. 3...
_Behold, there was a man_ The same no doubt that appeared to the prophet, Ezekiel 1:20, (where see the note,) _whose name is the Branch, and who builds the temple of the Lord, Zechariah 6:12_; _whose...
And He brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, a heavenly being in the form and appearance of a man, WHOSE APPEARANCE WAS LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF BRASS, bright, shining, resplendent, as befit...
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....
HE BROUGHT ME; the Lord by his Spirit, as EZEKIEL 40:1. THITHER: see EZEKIEL 40:1. A MAN; the same, no doubt, which appeared to the prophet, EZEKIEL 1:26, whose name is The Branch, and who builds the
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‘And he brought me there, and behold there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed, and he stood in the gate.' The man's appe...
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...
A MAN The theophanies. (Daniel 8:15); (Daniel 10:6); (Daniel 10:10); (Daniel 10:18); ...
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...
Daniel 10:5; Daniel 10:6; Ezekiel 1:27; Ezekiel 1:7; Ezekiel 47:3;...
A man — The same no doubt that appeared to the prophet, Ezekiel 1:26, whose name is the branch, and who builds the temple, Zechariah 6:12, whose colour was like burnished brass; Revelation 1:15, which...