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Ezekiel
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“Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion. See also: Ezekiel 47:15-17Joshua 19:40-472 Samuel 24:2“By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion. See also: Joshua 19:24-31Genesis 30:12-13“By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one portion. See also: Joshua 19:32-39Genesis 30:7-8“By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion. See also: Joshua 17:1-11Joshua 13:29-31Genesis 48:14-20“By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion. See also: Joshua 17:8-10Joshua 17:14-18Joshua 16:1-10“By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one portion. See also: Joshua 13:15-21Genesis 29:32Genesis 49:3-4“By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion. See also: Joshua 15:1-63Joshua 19:9Genesis 29:35“By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side; and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it. See also: Isaiah 12:6Ezekiel 45:1-6Isaiah 33:20-22“The offering that you shall offer to the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand in width. For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in width, and toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length; and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the middle of it. See also: Ezekiel 45:4Ezekiel 44:281 Corinthians 9:13-14It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. See also: Ezekiel 40:46Ezekiel 44:10Matthew 24:45-46It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a most holy thing, by the border of the Levites. See also: Ezekiel 45:4Leviticus 27:21“Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width. All the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the width ten thousand. See also: Luke 10:7Deuteronomy 12:19Ezekiel 45:3They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated, for it is holy to the LORD. See also: Leviticus 27:28Leviticus 27:9-10Ezekiel 48:12“The five thousand cubits that are left in the width, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for pasture lands; and the city shall be in the middle of it. See also: Ezekiel 45:6Ezekiel 42:201 Timothy 3:15These shall be its measurements: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred. See also: Revelation 21:16The city shall have pasture lands: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty. The remainder of the length, alongside the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward; and it shall be alongside the holy offering. Its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city. See also: Nehemiah 7:46-62Ezekiel 45:6Ezra 2:43-58Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it. See also: 1 Kings 4:7-23Nehemiah 11:1-36Ezekiel 45:6All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city. See also: Revelation 21:16Hebrews 12:17“The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. The holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it. See also: Ezekiel 48:22Ezekiel 48:8Ezekiel 45:7-8Moreover, from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the middle of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince. “As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion. See also: Joshua 18:21-28Genesis 35:16-19Ezekiel 48:1-7“By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion. See also: Joshua 19:1-9Genesis 29:33Genesis 49:5-7“By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion. See also: Joshua 19:17-23Genesis 30:14-18“By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion. See also: Joshua 19:10-16Genesis 30:19-20“By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion. See also: Joshua 13:24-28Genesis 30:10-11“By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. See also: Ezekiel 47:15Ezekiel 47:19-202 Chronicles 20:2“This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord GOD. See also: Numbers 34:2Ezekiel 47:13-22Joshua 13:1-21“These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand five hundred reeds by measure; See also: Ezekiel 48:16Ezekiel 48:32-35Revelation 21:16and the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one. See also: Revelation 21:12-13Isaiah 26:1-2Revelation 21:25“At the east side four thousand five hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one. “At the south side four thousand five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one. “At the west side four thousand five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one. “It shall be eighteen thousand reeds in circumference; and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘The LORD is there.’ See also: Revelation 21:3Zechariah 2:10Jeremiah 33:16
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 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 48:1
Ver. 1. Dan. This division is very different from that of Josue, and was never literally executed, being rather of a mystical nature. The limits are not marked out, as each lot was equal. C. See C. xlv. 1. and xlvii. 14. H. --- By the twelve tribes all the glorified saints are meant. No cities of refuge occur, because in heaven all are perfect, all secure. S. Jer. W.
↑ 1Ezekiel 48:8
Ver. 8. Apart, for the Levitical tribe and the prince. C. --- As the first-born and things which spring first, so also the land consecrated to the Lord is called first-fruits. W. --- Thousand cubits (C. xlv. 1.) or 12,500 paces, (H.) allowing two cubits for each. This would not reach to the Jordan River. But thrice that space must be reckoned, the king having two of them (C.) on each side of the temple, namely, towards the sea, and on the other side of the Jordan. H.
↑ 8Ezekiel 48:11
Ver. 11. Astray, &c. By this we see, that in the worst of times God always preserves some of the priests from going astray; an that the synagogue never fell so universally into idolatry, but that a remnant was still left free from this corruption. Ch.
↑ 11Ezekiel 48:13
Ver. 13. Ten. Their city was only 18,000 cubits in circumference. v. 16.
↑ 13Ezekiel 48:15
Ver. 15. Profane, where servants of the priests may reside. C. --- On the north and south, (H.) 1000 cubits broad and 25,000 long were left for fields, gardens,
&c. C.
↑ 15Ezekiel 48:16
Ver. 16. Five. Heb. has, "five five hundred:" but one five is properly omitted in several MSS.
and in all the ancient versions. Kennicott. --- Four thousand five hundred cubits was the length and breadth of the town and temple, which were 18,000
cubits round, (C.) or so many reeds, which would make 36 miles of 1000 paces each. As the earthly Jerusalem was certainly never so large, the modern rabbins assert that the Messias will build it to that extent; but Catholic doctors understand it mystically of the Church. Thus S. John saw the New Jerusalem or Church triumphant. Apoc. xxi. and xxii. W.
↑ 16Ezekiel 48:17
Ver. 17. Suburbs, separating the Levites from laics, different from what is mentioned v. 15.
↑ 17Ezekiel 48:18
Ver. 18. As the, &c. They shall not be alienated, as some might infer from its being said to be profane, which term is used because it was the habitation of laymen.
↑ 18Ezekiel 48:19
Ver. 19. Israel. People from all parts might serve the Levites. This tribe was not to engage in labourious or sordid employments, being attached to the service of the Lord, and bound to instruct others. But this was more perfectly fulfilled in the Christian Church, where the clergy enjoy great immunities, and are forbidden to exercise any trade or employment which may take them off from their more important spiritual concerns, or render their ministry contemptible.
See Ex. xix. 6.
↑ 19Ezekiel 48:20
Ver. 20. City, where the Levites and their servants, artisans, &c. dwelt. C.
↑ 20Ezekiel 48:21
Ver. 21. Thereof. The domains of the prince touched the limits of Juda on the north, and of Benjamin on the south, as the portion of Levi did also. The prince occupied the east and west square of this division. H.
↑ 21Ezekiel 48:28
Ver. 28. Inheritance. Heb. nachal, signifies also "torrent;" and S. Jerom seems to prefer this meaning, as he explains it of the torrent which goes by Rhinocorura, and is commonly supposed to be the southern boundary. C.
↑ 28Ezekiel 48:30
Ver. 30. Out, or gates. H. --- There were three on each of the four sides. C.
↑ 30Ezekiel 48:35
Ver. 35. The Lord is there. This name is here given to the city; that is, the Church of Christ; because the Lord is always with her till the end of the world.
Mat. xxviii. 20. Ch. --- He always adorns the Church triumphant; (Apoc. xxii.) but has deserted the synagogue. Mat. xxiii. 38. W.
--- Jerusalem certainly never bore this name, nor is it requisite that she should, if the prophecy had been literally understood. It would suffice, if she could justly claim such a prerogative. See Is. vii. 14. and 2 K. xii. 25. The Church of Christ possesses God for ever. C.
↑ 35License: 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