Ezekiel 44:28

AND IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM FOR AN INHERITANCE: I AM THEIR INHERITANCE: AND YE SHALL GIVE THEM NO POSSESSION IN ISRAEL: I AM THEIR POSSESSION. I am their inheritance - ( , "THOU SHALT HAVE NO INHERITANCE IN THEIR LAND, NEITHER SHALT THOU HAVE ANY PART AMONG THEM: I AM THY PART AND THINE INHERITANCE AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL;" ; ; ; )....

Verse Ezekiel 44:28. _I_ AM _THEIR INHERITANCE_] Those who affect to form their ecclesiastical matters on the model of the Jewish Church have with one consent left this out of the question. They will not live on the _free-will offerings of the people_; but must have vast revenues, and these secured to them by _law_. That every minister of God should be supported by the altar I grant; but I think, instead of that method of paying the parochial clergy which I see is so much objected to, and breeds so much dissension between the pastors and their flocks, it would be better, _on these accounts_, to assign them a portion of land adequate to their supply, or let the state maintain them as it does its other officers. In Israel God was their _inheritance_ and their _possession_; but _they_ had the _breast_ and _shoulder_ of all sin-o...

Regulations as to the priests’ services. The garments of the priests are defined and various rules prescribed in the Law are repeated with some additions in order to denote additional care to avoid uncleanness. Ezekiel 44:18 The material of which the four vestments of the ordinary priest were made was “linen,” or, more accurately, “byssus,” the cotton stuff of Egypt. The two special qualities of the byssus - white and shining - are characteristic, and on them part of the symbolic meaning depended. Compare Revelation 19:8. Ezekiel 44:19 THEY SHALL NOT SANCTIFY THE PEOPLE - They shall not touch the p

EXPOSITION The prophet, having finished his account of the temple, or place of worship, proceeds, in the second section of his vision (Ezekiel 44-46.), to set forth the culture, or ritual, to be performed in the temple; treating first of the several classes in the new community, and of their relation to the sanctuary (Ezekiel 44:1.); next of the regulations to be observed in the maintenance of worship (Ezekiel 45:1.); and, thirdly, of certain supplementary orders for the prince, the people, and the priests, when engaged in the solemnities of their religion (Ezekiel 46:1.). In particular, the present chapter deals (1) with the relation of the prince to the sanctuary ...

AND IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM FOR AN INHERITANCE,.... Either the sin offering, or the priesthood, and the perquisites belonging to it: or, THEY SHALL HAVE AN INHERITANCE r; but what shall it be? God himself: I AM THEIR INHERITANCE; the Lord is the portion and inheritance of his people, who are made priests unto him, whether in a private or public capacity; they are heirs of God, he is their portion in the land of the living, and forever: God in all his perfections is theirs; and though incommunicable, they have the use and advantage of them, so far as they are capable and stand in need of them; as his eternity, immutability, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, grace, mercy, goodness, truth, and faithfulness: he is theirs in all his persons; God the Father is their covenant God and Father; the Son of God is their Head and Husband, their Saviour and Redeemer, Mediator and Peacemaker, the...

CHAPTER 44 _ 1. The outward eastern gate for the prince (Ezekiel 44:1) _ 2. The charge concerning the strangers and the rebellious tribes (Ezekiel 44:4) 3. The charge concerning the priests, the sons of Zadok (Ezekiel 44:15) 4. The inheritance of the priests (Ezekiel 44:28)...

THE PRIESTS. (_Their revenues._) Certain offerings are to be the perquisites of the priests, also as they are the representatives of the Deity the best of the first-fruits. Formerly the sin-offering and the guilt-offering had been paid to them in money (2 Kings 12:16). The welfare of the people would depend upon their fidelity to the claims of the priests. The restrictions in Ezekiel 44:31 had formerly applied to all the people (Exodus 22:31). (In Ezekiel 44:28 for an read no.)...

I AM THEIR INHERITANCE. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 18:20; Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 18:1; Deuteronomy 18:2). App-92....

_it shall be … inheritance_ This cannot refer to the sin-offering (Ezekiel 44:27), which was burnt entire outside the sanctuary. To translate: _This shall be their inheritance_(viz.) _I am their inheritance_, making the words "I am" &c. subject is too artificial. The balance of sentence seems to require, _they shall have no inheritance_, I am &c., corresponding to the second half of the verse. So Vulg., cf. Numbers 18:20; Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 18:1-2; Joshua 13:14 &c....

AND IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM, &C.— Houbigant very properly, after the Vulgate, reads, _And they shall have no inheritance;_ agreeably to what follows....