Ezekiel 46
DOYLYEzekiel 46:23
- — a row of building] On the inside of these courts. W. Lowth.
Ezekiel 46:24
- — the ministers of the house] Probably the Levites, or inferiour ministers. The former sacrifices were boiled by the priests in the court properly belonging to them; see chap. xl. 45, and note. W. Lowth. Chap. XLVII. ver. 1. — the door of the house;] The door of the temple, which is described, chap. xli. 2. W. Lowth. — waters issued out from under the threshold— eastward:] There was a great quantity of water necessary for the uses of the temple, for washing the bodies of those that officiated, as well as the sacrifices which they offered; this was conveyed in pipes under ground from the fountain Etam. These waters gave occasion to the vision here related. Dr. Lightfoot, W. Lowth. The progressive establishment of the Messiah’s kingdom is declared by some of the later Prophets under the most striking and lively representations. In Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, related by the Prophet Daniel, and by him expounded of successive kingdoms, that last kingdom set up by the God of heaven was at first no more than “a stone,” but “it became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth,” Dan. ii. 34, 35. In way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.