And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
These eight tables show us what the gospel-temple will become: not one altar in the midst, but many tables for many spiritual sacrifices brought by many hands. The tables, the knives, the hooks, the washing, all this readiness speaks to us: come with clean hands and a washed heart, for you cannot draw near to God's altar in disorder.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 40:39-49
And he brought me to the porch of the house,.... Having passed through the inner court, and measured that, he came to the body of the fabric, the principal part of it, the house or temple; to the porch that led into it. Here of right a new chapter should begin, for this and the next verse more properly "belong" to the following chapter.
Eze 40:38-47 Eze 40:38. And a cell with its door was by the pillars at the gates; there they had to wash the burnt-offering. Eze 40:39. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that, to slay thereon the burnt-offering, the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering. Eze 40:40.
Commenting on Ezekiel 40:38-47