This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.
God renews His covenant with Israel through this vision, much as He once did through Moses. They must remember their former sins, how they defiled His name by setting their own thresholds and doorposts beside His, mixing their inventions with His institutions as if human commands held equal weight with divine ones. This conviction prepares them for the mercy that follows.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 43:7-12
This is the law of the house,.... Which follows, the more general one, which comprehends the rest: upon the top of the mountain; denoting the exaltation and visibility of the church of Christ in the latter day, as well as its firmness and stability; see Isa 2:2, the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy; all belonging to it shall be as the...
whole . . . most holy--This superlative, which had been used exclusively of the holy of holies (Exo 26:34), was now to characterize the entire building. This all-pervading sanctity was to be "the law of the (whole) house," as distinguished from the Levitical law, which confined the peculiar sanctity to a single apartment of it.