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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ezekiel
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Chapter XXIX. The Ritual. Chapters xlv., xlvi.
Let us now look at some details of the scheme in which this important idea is embodied. The foundation of the whole system is the daily burnt‐ offering—the _tāmîd_. Under the first Temple the daily offering seems to have been a burnt‐offering in the morning and a meal‐offering (_minhah_) in the evening,(281) and this p…
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Of the elements that contributed to this change the most important was the deepened consciousness of sin that had been produced by the teaching of the prophets as verified in the terrible calamity of the Exile. We have seen how frequently Ezekiel insists on this effect of the divine judgment; how, even in the time of h…
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The meaning of the two atoning services appointed for the beginning of the first and the seventh month is now clear. They are intended to renew periodically the holiness of the sanctuary established by the initiatory rites just described. For it is evident that no indelible character can attach to the kind of sanctity …
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Hence we see that the whole system of sacrificial worship is firmly knit together, being pervaded from end to end by the one principle of expiation, behind which lay the assurance of pardon and acceptance to all who approached God in the use of the appointed means of grace. Herein lay the chief value of the Temple ritu…
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Thou desirest not sacrifice that I should give it, Thou delightest not in burnt‐offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.(297) Finally, we have learned from Ezekiel that the idea of atonement is not lodged in any particular rite, but pervades t…
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In the first part of the forty‐seventh chapter the visionary form of the revelation, which had been interrupted by the important series of communications on which we have been so long engaged, is again resumed. The prophet, once more under the direction of his angelic guide, sees a stream of water issuing from the Temp…
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But with all its idealism, Ezekiel’s conception presents many points of contact with the actual physiography of Palestine; it is less universal and abstract in its significance than that of the Apocalypse. The first thing that might have suggested the idea to the prophet is that the Temple mount had at least one small …
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Ezekiel’s map of Palestine is marked by something of the same mathematical regularity which was exhibited in his plan of the Temple. His boundaries are like those we sometimes see on the map of a newly settled country like America or Australia—that is to say, they largely follow the meridian lines and parallels of lati…
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This seeming indifference of the prophet to the secular interests represented by the metropolis strikes us as a singular feature in his programme. It is strange that the man who was so thoughtful about the salt‐pans of the Dead Sea should pass so lightly over the details of the reconstruction of a city. But we have had…
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“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be …
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1 Herodotus, i. 103‐106. 2 If the “thirtieth year” of ch. i. 1 could refer to the prophet’s age at the time of his call, his birth would fall in the very year in which the Law Book was found. Although that interpretation is extremely improbable, he can hardly have been much more, or less, than thirty years old at …
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16 An ingenious attempt has been made by Professor Cornill to rearrange the verses so as to bring out two separate series of actions, one referring exclusively to the exile and the other to the siege. But the proposed reading requires a somewhat violent handling of the text, and does not seem to have met with much …
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31 Especially if we read ver. 12, as in LXX., “That he may not be seen by any eye, and he shall not see the earth.” 32 By this name for Chaldæa Ezekiel seems to express his contempt for the commercial activity which formed so large an element in the greatness of Babylon (ch. xvi. 29 R.V.), perhaps also his sense of…
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48 The verses xx. 45‐49 of the English Version really belong to ch. xxi., and are so placed in the Hebrew. In what follows the verses will be numbered according to the Hebrew text. 49 At three places the meaning is entirely lost, through corruption of the text. 50 Cf. ch. xvii. 51 The reference is to the Messiah,…
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55 None of the interpretations of ver. 29 gives a satisfactory sense. Cornill rejects it as “absonderlich und aus dem Tenor des ganzen Cap. herausfallend.” 56 See Dillmann’s note on Lev. xxvii. 32, quoted by Davidson. 57 Reading במספר for במסרת with the LXX. 58 The transition ver. 39 is, however, very difficult. A…
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68 This appears to be the meaning of the simile in ver. 24; the judgment is conceived as a parching drought, and the point of the comparison is that its severity is not tempered by the fertilising streams which should have descended on the people in the shape of sound political and religious guidance. 69 Following…
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96 The details of the description are nearly all illustrated in pictures of Phœnician war‐galleys found on Assyrian monuments. They show the single mast with its square sail, the double row of oars, the fighting men on the deck, and the row of shields along the bulwarks. In an Egyptian picture we have a representat…
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107 Ch. xxxii. 17, following the LXX. reading. 108 Migdol was on the north‐east border of Egypt, twelve miles south of Pelusium (Sin), at the mouth of the eastern arm of the Nile. Syene is the modern Assouan, at the first cataract of the Nile, and has always been the boundary between Egypt proper and Ethiopia. 109…
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123 _Ibid._, 1884, pp. 87 ff., 93 ff. 124 See Schrader, _Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek_, III. ii., pp. 140 f. 125 The hypothesis of a joint reign of Hophra and Amasis from 570 to 564 (Wiedemann) may or may not be necessary to establish a connection between the Babylonian inscription and that of Nes‐hor; it is cert…
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154 Vv. 20, 22, 23. 155 James ii. 7. 156 Psalm xlii. 10. 157 Ch. xxxix. 23. 158 The phrase “cause you to walk” (ver. 27) is very strong in the Hebrew, almost “I will bring it about that ye walk.” 159 The thirty‐seventh verse hardly bears the sense which is sometimes put upon it: “I am ready to do this for the ho…
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205 The beginning of the year is that referred to in Lev. xxv. 9, the tenth day of the seventh month (September‐October). From the Exile downwards two calendars were in use, the beginning of the sacred year falling in the seventh month of the civil year. It was not necessary for Ezekiel to mention the number of the…
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217 Smend and Stade assume that it was a hundred and ten cubits long, and extended five cubits to the west beyond the line of the square to which it belongs. This was not necessary, and it would imply that the _binyā_ behind the Temple, to be afterwards described, was without a wall on its eastern side, which is ex…
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232 Cf. ch. xxiv. 17; Lev. x. 6, xxi. 5, 10. 233 It is remarkable that neither here nor in Leviticus (ch. xxi. 1‐3) is the priest’s wife mentioned as one for whom he may defile himself at her death. 234 Cf. 2 Kings xii. 11, xxiii. 14, xxv. 18; Jer. xx. 1. 235 Hence it does not seem to me that any argument can be b…
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252 Ezek. xlv. 12, according to the LXX. 253 Prov. xi. 1. 254 Lev. xix. 35, 36. 255 Ezek. xlv. 13‐16. 256 The exact figures are, one part in sixty of cereal produce (wheat and barley), one share in a hundred of oil, and one animal out of every two hundred from the flock (ch. xlv. 13‐15). 257 Neh. x. 32, 33: cf. …
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286 2 Kings xii. 17. 287 Cf. ch. xliii. 21. 288 Another explanation, however, is possible, and is adopted by Smend and Davidson. Assuming that a burnt‐offering was offered on the first day, and holding the whole description to be somewhat elliptical, they bring the entire process within the limits of the week. Th…
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