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Ezekiel
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He brought me to the nave and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent. See also: Ezekiel 40:2-3Ezekiel 40:17Ezekiel 41:23The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits. See also: 2 Chronicles 3:31 Kings 6:21 Kings 6:17Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits. See also: Ezekiel 40:16He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the nave. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.” See also: 1 Kings 6:20Hebrews 9:3-8Exodus 26:33-34Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side. See also: Ezekiel 42:3-141 Kings 6:5-6Ezekiel 41:6-9The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in each story. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported and not penetrate the wall of the house. See also: 1 Kings 6:10Ezekiel 40:171 Peter 1:5The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level. See also: 1 Kings 6:8Matthew 13:32Hebrews 6:1I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits. See also: Ezekiel 40:5Revelation 21:16The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house. See also: Ezekiel 41:11Ezekiel 42:4Ezekiel 42:1Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side. See also: Ezekiel 40:17The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around. See also: Ezekiel 41:9Ezekiel 42:4The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. See also: Ezekiel 42:10Ezekiel 42:1Ezekiel 42:13So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; See also: Ezekiel 40:47also the width of the face of the temple, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits. He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court, See also: Ezekiel 42:3Ezekiel 42:1Ezekiel 41:17the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), See also: 1 Kings 6:41 Kings 6:15Ezekiel 40:16to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. See also: Ezekiel 42:15It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, See also: 1 Kings 7:36Ezekiel 40:16Ezekiel 40:22so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around. See also: Ezekiel 10:14Ezekiel 1:10Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this. See also: Ezekiel 41:18The door posts of the nave were squared. As for the face of the nave, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple. See also: Ezekiel 41:11 Kings 6:33Ezekiel 40:14The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.” See also: Ezekiel 23:41Malachi 1:7Malachi 1:12The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. See also: 1 Kings 6:31-352 Chronicles 4:22Ezekiel 41:1The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other. See also: 1 Kings 6:34Ezekiel 40:48There were made on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. See also: Ezekiel 41:18There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the temple and the thresholds were arranged. See also: Ezekiel 41:16Ezekiel 40:16Ezekiel 41:5
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)16 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 41:1
Ver. 1. The temple. This plan of a temple, which was here shewn to the prophet in a vision, partly had relation to the material temple, which was to be rebuilt: and partly, in a mystical sense, to the spiritual temple of God, the Church of Christ. Ch. --- The description seems grander than Solomon's; and yet Zorobabel's temple was meaner than his. Hence this prophecy, and those of Aggeus and Zacharias, cannot be understood of it, but of the Church. S. Jer. S.
Aug. de Civ. Dei.
xviii. 45. W.
↑ 1Ezekiel 41:3
Ver. 3. Front, or door-posts. The temple was 20 cubits broad.
↑ 3Ezekiel 41:5
Ver. 5. Four. Herein it differed from Solomon's chambers, which were in breadth five, six, and seven cubits, in the three stories, respectively. C.
↑ 5Ezekiel 41:6
Ver. 6. One by another, or one over another: literally, side to side, or side upon side. Ch. --- The word side is here equivocal, like Heb. tselá, sometimes denoting the boards, and at other times the apartments round the temple, except on the west, over against the sanctuary, which seems to be the case here. It is true, we shall not easily find sixty-six chambers. But the Heb. &c.
have only thirty-three. C. --- Villalpand rightly translated anterides, (v. 5.) but here he substitutes trabes, "beams or thick planks," to make it agree with 3 K.
vi. 6. as if the same temple were meant. He also adopts the Vulg. bis. --- Twice.
Heb. pehamim. Yet he afterwards places in his commentary, pedes, "thirty-three feet, that is twenty-two cubits," though feet are never used at all as a measure in Scripture. Houbigant.
↑ 6Ezekiel 41:7
Ver. 7. Broader, as the wall was not so thick. H. --- Midst. The two staircases were round in the hollow of the wall, (M.) at the eastern end of the chambers.
Jos. See 3 K. C.
↑ 7Ezekiel 41:9
Ver. 9. House. Because these side-chambers were in the very walls of the temple all around: or it may also be rendered, (more agreeably to the Heb.) so as to signify, that the thickness of the wall for the side-chambers within was the same as that of the wall without; that is, equally five cubits.
Ch. --- Prot. "and that which was left, was the place of the side-chambers that were within." H.
--- To manifest a greater respect for God, the apartments of the priests were twenty-five cubits from the temple, (v. 10.) and divided by a wall, which Josephus describes as three cubits high.
Ant. viii. 2. This wall was at the distance of five cubits from the temple. C.
↑ 9Ezekiel 41:11
Ver. 11. Prayer, or "separated;" munnach, (H.) the inner house, v. 9.
↑ 11Ezekiel 41:13
Ver. 13. Separate, different from that v. 9. (C. Heb. gizra. H.) between the temple and the priests' apartments, which it may also designate, (C.) unless it (H.) mean the temple itself, which was divided from the rest, (M.) and set aside for prayer, &c. H.
↑ 13Ezekiel 41:15
Ver. 15. Galleries; Ethecas, or as the more correct MSS. of S. Jerom read, Ecthetas, seems to be formed from (C.) Heb. athikim, (H.) which S. Jerom explains a balcony, portico, or gallery.
↑ 15Ezekiel 41:16
Ver. 16. About. Thus he intimates the inner temple, which was covered with boards. ---
Windows. The temple was hidden so far by the chambers; or rather he measured (C.) "the ground and up to the windows, which were" shut up with lattices, affording light over the doors (H.) and apartments, fifteen cubits from the ground.
↑ 16Ezekiel 41:18
Ver. 18. Two. Before he describes them with four faces. But they varied, (Ex.
xxv. 18.) or the other two might be against the wall. C. --- The cherub signified
"knowledge," and the palm-tree victory, to shew that man must be instructed with divine knowledge, and so fight for the victory.
The face of man implied that Christ would suffer, and that of a lion announced that he would overcome all his enemies. W.
↑ 18Ezekiel 41:21
Ver. 21. The threshold was four-square. That is, the gate of the temple was four-square, and so placed as to answer the gate of the sanctuary within. Ch.
--- It was not an arch, though not a perfect square. 3 K. vi. 34.
↑ 21Ezekiel 41:22
Ver. 22. Table, or altar of incense, larger than that of Moses. Ex. xxx. 1.
↑ 22Ezekiel 41:23
Ver. 23. Sanctuary. One folding door opened into it, the other into the temple.
↑ 23Ezekiel 41:24
Ver. 24. Other. It was not perhaps necessary to open the large door.
↑ 24Ezekiel 41:26
Ver. 26. Sides, ( humerulis) or pilasters. Heb. "on the shoulder of the porch, and on the sides of the house, and beams." C.
↑ 26License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses