Eze 44:1-3, 46:2, Col 1:18 | TSK | STEP | The east gate assigned only to the prince. The priests reproved for polluting the sanctuary. Idolaters incapable of the priests office. The sons of Zadok are accepted thereto. Ordinances for the priests. the outward.So called in opposition to the temple itself, which was the inner sanctuary. looketh.

Ezekiel 44:1-3

1 The east gate assigned only to the prince.

4 The priests reproved for polluting the sanctuary.

9 Idolaters incapable of the priests office.

15 The sons of Zadok are accepted thereto.

17 Ordinances for the priests.

the outward.So called in opposition to the temple itself, which was the inner sanctuary.

40:6,17; 42:14; 2Ch 4:9; 20:5; 33:5; Ac 21:28-30

looketh.

43:1,4; 46:1

because.

43:2-4; Ex 24:10; Isa 6:1-5

for.

46:2,8; 2Ch 23:13; 34:31

the prince.It is probable that the prince mentioned here and elsewhere, does not mean the Messiah, but the ruler of the Jewish nation for the time being. For it is not only directed where he should sit in the temple, and eat his portion of the sacrifices, and when and how he should go out; but it is also ordered (ch. 45:22,) that at the passover he shall offer a bullock, a sin offering for himself and the people; and to guard him against any temptation of oppressing the people, he had a provision of land allotted to him, (ch. 45:8,) out of which he is to give an inheritance for his sons, (ch. 46:18.) These appear plainly to be political rules for common princes, and for a succession of them; but as no such rules were observed under the second temple, the fulfilment of it must still be future.

34:24; 37:25; Zec 6:12,13

to eat.

Ge 31:54; Ex 24:9-11; De 12:7,17,18; Isa 23:18; 62:9; 1Co 10:18-33

Re 3:20

he shall enter.

40:9; 46:2,8-10

Ezekiel 46:2

the porch.

Joh 10:1-3

by the post.

8; 44:3; 2Ch 23:13; 34:31

the priests.

Col 1:28

prepare.Or, "offer," as the word {âsah} frequently denotes. The whole of this seems to intimate the constant, reverential, and exemplary attendance of kings on the pure ordinances of religion, in the approaching flourishing days of the church.

he shall worship.

1Ki 8:22,23; 1Ch 17:16; 29:10-12; 2Ch 6:13; 29:29; Mt 26:39

Heb 5:7,8

but the gate.

Colossians 1:18

he is.

24; 2:10-14; 1Co 11:3; Eph 1:10,22,23; 4:15,16; 5:23

the beginning.

Joh 1:1; 1Jo 1:1; Re 1:8; 3:14; 21:6; 22:13

the firstborn.

Joh 11:25,26; Ac 26:23; 1Co 15:20-23; Re 1:5,18

in all. or, among all.

Ps 45:2-5; 89:27; So 5:10; Isa 52:13; Mt 23:8; 28:18; Joh 1:16,27

Joh 3:29-31,34,35; Ro 8:29; 1Co 15:25; Heb 1:5,6; Re 5:9-13; 11:15

Re 21:23,24