Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
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
Thou son of man, show the house,.... That is, the house the prophet had seen measured, its gates, courts, and all belonging to it; which he was at first bid to observe, that he might show it to others; the house that the glory of the Lord was now come into, and had filled; and which is no other than the Gospel church in its...
show the house . . . that they may be ashamed of their iniquities--When the spirituality of the Christian scheme is shown to men by the Holy Ghost, it makes them "ashamed of their iniquities."