To return to the brink. — The angel, having called the prophet’s attention to this marvellous increase, now causes him to return along the bank to observe other things. The word brink in this verse and bank in the next are the same in the original. The prophet does not return to the brink, for he had not left it, but is told to pass along it.
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...
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1....
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...
_to the brink_ Perhaps: ALONG the brink. _River_is brook or wady as Ezekiel 47:5....
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 he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
§ 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...
Ezekiel was only a little more than a mile from the *temple. (That is, about 2 kilometres.) But already the stream had become a river. It had not become a river because other streams had joined it. It...
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...
וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלַ֖י הֲ רָאִ֣יתָ בֶן ־אָדָ֑ם
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...
If we compare scripture with scripture, (and, which God the Holy Ghost commands, 1 Corinthians 2:13) we shall take the most effectual method of arriving to the proper apprehension of what is here said...
_THE RIVER OF LIFE_ Ezekiel 47:1 To Ezekiel the river meant the blessings of Messiah’s reign. The last page of the Apocalypse tells of the river of water of life that proceeds from the throne of God...
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 HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, HAST THOU SEEN THIS? c]. That is, the man that measured the waters said to the prophet, hast thou carefully observed all this from whence the waters flowed? from what...
And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. Ver. 6. _Son of man, hast thou seen this?_] And art thou soundly sensibl...
_And he said, Son of man, hast thou seen this?_ Hast thou considered, or taken notice of, this vision now showed unto thee? To _see_, often signifies to take notice of what we see: on the contrary, th...
THE STREAM OF LIVING WATERS...
And He said unto me, in order to impress upon the prophet every detail of the picture, SON OF MAN, HAST THOU SEEN THIS? THEN HE BROUGHT ME, AND CAUSED ME TO RETURN, TO THE BRINK OF THE RIVER, back to...
HE SAID, i.e. the man with measuring line in hand. SEEN THIS; observed and considered this; hast thou well seen this? CAUSED ME TO RETURN: it is not said whether he was gone from the bank, though it b...
Ezekiel 47:6 said H559 (H8799) Son H1121 man H120 seen H7200 (H8804) brought H3212 (H8686) returned...
‘Then he brought me and caused me to return to the bank of the river. Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.' This verse is a...
‘When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles. Again he measured a thousand, a...
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...
_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 40:4; Ezekiel 44:5; Ezekiel 8:17; Jeremiah 1:11; Matthew 13: