Ezekiel

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Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut. See also: Ezekiel 43:1 Ezekiel 40:6 Ezekiel 40:17The LORD said to me, “This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut. See also: Ezekiel 43:2-4 Exodus 24:10 Isaiah 6:1-5As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the LORD. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way.” See also: Ezekiel 46:2 Ezekiel 37:25 1 Corinthians 10:18-33Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the LORD’s glory filled the LORD’s house; so I fell on my face. See also: Ezekiel 1:28 Revelation 1:17 Ezekiel 3:23The LORD said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the LORD’s house and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. See also: Ezekiel 40:4 Ezekiel 43:10-11 Deuteronomy 32:46You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations, See also: Ezekiel 45:9 Ezekiel 3:9 1 Peter 4:3in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood; and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations. See also: Leviticus 22:25 Jeremiah 9:26 Jeremiah 4:4You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.” See also: Numbers 18:3-5 Numbers 18:7 1 Chronicles 23:32The Lord GOD says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel. See also: Joel 3:17 Zechariah 14:21 Ezekiel 44:7“‘“But the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity. See also: Ezekiel 48:11 Ezekiel 22:26 1 Timothy 5:22Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. See also: Numbers 16:9 2 Chronicles 29:34 1 Chronicles 26:1-19Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord GOD, “and they will bear their iniquity. See also: Psalms 106:26 2 Kings 16:10-16 Ezekiel 14:3-4They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed. See also: Numbers 18:3 2 Kings 23:9 Ezekiel 36:7Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service and for all that will be done therein. See also: 1 Chronicles 23:28-32 Numbers 18:4“‘“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord GOD. See also: Ezekiel 48:11 Deuteronomy 10:8 Ezekiel 44:7“They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction. See also: Ezekiel 41:22 Numbers 18:7-8 Malachi 1:7“‘“It will be that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. See also: Revelation 19:8 Exodus 28:43 Exodus 39:27-29They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat. See also: 1 Corinthians 14:40 Exodus 39:28 1 Corinthians 11:4-10When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments. See also: Ezekiel 46:20 Leviticus 6:27 Leviticus 6:10-11“‘“They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads. See also: 1 Corinthians 11:14 Numbers 6:5 Deuteronomy 14:1None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court. See also: Leviticus 10:9 Titus 1:7-8 Luke 1:15They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. See also: Leviticus 21:7 Leviticus 21:13-14 1 Timothy 3:4-5They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. See also: Ezekiel 22:26 Leviticus 10:10-11 2 Timothy 2:24-25“‘“In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy. See also: 1 Chronicles 23:4 Ezekiel 22:26 2 Chronicles 19:8-10“‘“They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves. See also: Leviticus 22:4 Matthew 8:21-22 Luke 9:59-60After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. See also: Numbers 6:10-21 Hebrews 9:13-14 Numbers 19:11-14In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the Lord GOD. See also: Numbers 6:9-11 Leviticus 8:14-36 Ezekiel 44:17“‘They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession. See also: Numbers 18:20 Joshua 13:33 Deuteronomy 18:1-2They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. See also: Numbers 18:14 Leviticus 27:21 Leviticus 27:28The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house. See also: Nehemiah 10:35-37 Numbers 18:12-18 Numbers 15:19-21The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself or is torn, whether it is bird or animal. See also: Leviticus 22:8 Exodus 22:31 Deuteronomy 14:21

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)17 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 44:2–3

Ver. 2-3. Opened. No man perfectly understands the Scriptures but the Son of God. Mat. xi. 27.

S. Jer. --- This also insinuates, that Mary ever remained a pure virgin. S. Aug.

&c. W. --- Shut, even for the prince. Some (H.) kings of Juda claimed the privilege of entering by it at any time, and passed through a part of the court assigned to the priests. 2 Par. vi. 12. and 4 K. xvi. 18. This shall be no longer tolerated. The gate might be opened in the week days if the prince wished to offer sacrifice, but not else, except on the sabbaths. C. xlvi. 1, 12. --- Lord, in peace offerings and religious feasts. --- Porch. Each had two doors. C. xlvi. 2.

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Ezekiel 44:4

Ver. 4. Face. This astonishment and attention (v. 5.) intimate the mysteries of the Church, prefigured by the Jewish rites. W.

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Ezekiel 44:5

Ver. 5. Ways, or "the going in," and all that concerns the temple and sacrifices.

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Ezekiel 44:7

Ver. 7. Flesh. People of this description were not to enter the temple, which is here called the sanctuary, even though they adored God. In some cases pagans were admitted into any part, except the most holy. Epiphanes (C.) and Pompey forced their passage thither, to the great sorrow of the Jews. Jos. Bel.

i. 5. See Eccli. lii. Acts xxi. 28. --- During the plundering of the city, the Chaldees did the like; (Lam. i. 10. H.) and while idols were set up, all rules were neglected. --- Doings. You observe the exterior, and not the spirit of religion.

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Ezekiel 44:8

Ver. 8. Yourselves, out of ambition, contrary to the regulations of David. C.

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Ezekiel 44:10

Ver. 10. Levites, or priests, (H.) who were seduced by Jeroboam, or offered victims on the high places. 4 K. xxiii. 9. Such lost their privileges and were condemned to serve in the meanest offices. It seems the race of Ithamar was alone guilty, and the threat against his house was now put in execution. 1 K. ii.

39. and iii. 14. Lev. xxi. 17. and 2 Esd. vii. 64. C.

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Ezekiel 44:11

Ver. 11. Slay. Levites might do this, but the priests poured the blood round the altar. v. 15.

They could not well slay all the victims.

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Ezekiel 44:15

Ver. 15. And Levites, of the higher order. H. --- No simple Levites wee of this family. It enjoyed the high priesthood from the time of Solomon.

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Ezekiel 44:17

Ver. 17. Court; that is to do duty. --- Linen. Wool might have been taken from a dead sheep, which would render the person unclean. C.

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Ezekiel 44:18

Ver. 18. Sweat, or so as to make them perspire. Sept. "girded violently." H. ---

They must have liberty to move, (S. Jer.) and have the girdle about their breast.

Braun.

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Ezekiel 44:19

Ver. 19. Sanctify, by exposing them to the danger of touching the sacred vestments, which none were to touch but they that were sanctified. Ch. ---

Sanctify here means to defile. Ex. xxx. 29.

C. and xxix. 37. Holy things must be done in holy places. W. --- Divine religion has different clothing for the ministry, from what is used in common life. S. Jer.

Ex. xxviii. 40. C.

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Ezekiel 44:20

Ver. 20. Shave, like the priests of Isis. Juv. vi.

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Ezekiel 44:21

Ver. 21. Wine. Lev. x. 9. The priests on duty abstain from wine. Jos. Bel. vi. 15.

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Ezekiel 44:22

Ver. 22. Widow. Moses laid this restraint upon the high priest. Lev. xxi. 13. C.

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Ezekiel 44:25

Ver. 25. Unclean, attending the funeral, which inferior priests alone might do.

Lev. xxi. 10. M.

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Ezekiel 44:27

Ver. 27. Day, after the seven first, (C.) though this would be a new regulation.

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Ezekiel 44:28

Ver. 28. No. This is omitted in Heb. Sept. &c. God was their portion. C. --- They had no land but what lay near their cities. H.

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License: 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

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