The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.
Diligence in the plainer parts of Scripture leads to the mysteries of the kingdom. Those willing to dwell in God's courts shall be brought into His temple; Ezekiel, a priest barred from serving, is dignified above his order by this prophetical vision of Christ's body, the church, where all are living temples.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 41:1-11
The door ten cubits broad speaks to Christ the door into the church and fellowship with God. This temple's dimensions exactly match Solomon's, a figure of the Gospel church, showing continuity of Christ's design across the ages.
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length thereof--namely, of the holy place [FAIRBAIRN].