The Pulpit Commentary — Ezekiel — Volume 2 — Section 403

on the fifteenth after the Pasoh.e.l Iamb had day thirteen young bullocks, two rams, e.nd been ale.in and eaten (Lev. xxiii. 8). In fourteen lambs, e.nd so on, diminishing by the second place, the sin offering was to one bullock each de.y, till the seventh, when consist of e. bullock instead of a he-goat as seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen formerly (Numb. xxviii. 22). In the third lambs should be sacrificed; and for a meal place, it was not intended to be renewed on offering three-tenths of an ephah of flour for each of the seven following days of the fee.et, every bullock, e.ncl two-ten the of an ephah but wae designed, by repeating the sacrifice for every ram, e.nd one-tenth of an epliah of the first and seventh days, to connect these for ea.eh Iamb, according to the number of with the fourteenth, on which the fee.at bullocks, rams, o.nd Iambs for each de.y. In proper opened. addition, the Mosaic celebration concluded Vere. 23, 24.-Tbe deviationsofEzekiel'e with a solemn assembly with special Torah from that of Moses in regard to the sacrifices on the eighth day (see Lev. offerings to be me.de during the seven de.ye x.xiii. 34-3G; Nomb. xxix. 12-39), of of the fee.et e.re also unmistakable (see which no mention is made in Ezekiel. Numb. x.xviii. 19-22). (1) While the Nor should it be overlooked tbe.t Eze'del's Pentateuchal code demanded, as a daily '£orah omits all reference to the other great burnt offering, two bullocks, one re.m, and festive.I that figures in the Mosaic Torah, viz. seven yearling lambs, this of Ezekiel pre- the.t of Pentecost, or the Feast of Weeks, as scribes seven bullooks and seven re.ms. (2) well o.s to the Feast of Trumpets e.r.d the great While that enjoined, a, a meat offering, three- De.y of Atonement (see on var. 21), although tenths of an cpbah of flour mixed with oil Hengstenberg is of opinion that Ezekiel, for each bullock, two-tenths for a ram, and having instanced the Passover e.nd Taber- one-tenth for eaoh lnmb, this asks an ephah nacles, the beginning and end of the fee.st- of flour with a bin of oil for each bullook oycle already known to the Jews, designed and each re.m. (3) The sin offering in the that all the feasts which lay between should new Torah should be the ea.me e.s in the old, be included. Be this, however, as it may, a he-goat daily. to infer from the deviations in Ezekiel's Ver. 25.-In the seventh month, i.e. in Torah from the.t of Moses, a.a George, Vatke, month of Tishri (1 Kings viii. 2), in the Knanen, Wellhe.usen, Smend, Robertson fifteenth day of the month, shall he, i.e. Smith, Cornill, and Driver he.ve done, the.t the prince, e.s in ver. 22, do the like in the the latter he.d no e.xistenoe in the time of feast of the seven days ; or, in the feast shall Ezekiel is, e.s Ho vernick observes, not ouly he do the like the seven days (Revised to reuder Ezekiel's representntions com- Versiou). The.t is, the so.me sacrifices pletely unintelligible, but to beg the entire should be offered daily throughout the questiou betweeu the newer criticism a.nd seven days of this feast e.s he.d been offered the old fe.ith. "How will one generally during the seven de.ys of the former feast. explain;' asks Cornill (' Einleitung in daa The.t this feast we.a designed to represent Alte Testament,' p. 64), "that a Jerusalem the 1moient Fee.et of Taberne.oles ce.u priest sets up a Torah for the future scarcely be doubted, though the pre.otioe of whioh oompletely ignores the priest code(?), li viug in booths (Lev. xxili. 40-43) is not in all points remains far behiud its require- adverted to. Possibly this me.y he.vo been ments (?), e.nd iu a groping manner Joys omitted, ne Keil remarks, "because the hold of the future, illBtend of appropriating prnotice of living in booths would be dropped to himself the finished system (i.e. of Lhe in the time to oomo" (see, however, Neh. so-called priest-code, supposing it to h1we viii. 14-17), or, as Kliefoth observes, "be- theu existed)? Why does Ezokiel require oe.use, when Ezekiel's Torah should oome in the oultus (which ho sets up) so muoh into operation, the people of God would be less tbo.n Numb. x.xviii. o.nd xxix.? Where dwelling in the eternal tabernacles of in Ezekiel is the high priest, who for the whioh the booths of the Mosa.io Torah were priest-oode is the ceutre of tho theocre.oy ? but the types." Nor are the deviations of Where is the great De.y of Atonement of Ezekiel's Torah from that of Moses, in Lev. xvi.?" e.nd so on. Tbo a.newer to these respect of tho daily offerings prescribed for interrogations is that Ezokiel ,lid not inteud this fee.at, fewer or of less importanoe than to republish the Mosaio Torah, but to those whioh he.ve been noted in oonneotion modify it so e.s to meet the roquirewents of with the Pll8sover. Ezekiel's Torah pre- the new era., or (perhaps better) to express scribes for a burnt offering seven bullocks more adeque.tely the new conceptions of e.nd seven rams de.ily,'for a sin offering a he- religion aud worship he had boeu commis- goe.t daily, for a meat offering an ephah of sioned to set before his fellow-exiles; 1md flour with a hin of oil for eaoh bullock and that Ezekiel ha.d a perfeot right tu dot1l eaoh ram daily : the Mosaio Torah, while in this way even with the Mosaio Torah, in- retaining the he-goe.t for a sin offering, asmuoh ae he distinctly claimed, in com- required-for a burnt otfering on the first mitting to writing the details of his temple- EZEKrni:.-n. 2 g 418 THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL. [err. nv, 1-25.