Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven 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
Then went he inward,.... Through the temple or holy place he had measured, to the holy of holies: and measured the post of the door two cubits; this was the door into the most holy place; there was one in Solomon's temple; but in the second temple there was none; but two rails instead of it, which were rent at the death of Christ; and...
The measurements give us thirty-two cubits for the front wall: pillars of six on each side, a door of ten between them, and shoulders of five on either side. These figures yield the holy place's internal breadth of twenty cubits with six-cubit walls on either side.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 41:1-4