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<p id="Chapter42" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 42
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<p id="Eze42_1"><a onclick="return mV('Eze',42,'1-20');">Eze 42:1-20</a>. CHAMBERS OF THE PRIESTS: MEASUREMENTS OF THE TEMPLE.
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<p id="Eze42_2"><b>2. Before the length of an hundred cubits</b>—that is before "the separate place," which was that length (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',41,13);">Eze 41:13</a>). He had before spoken of chambers for the officiating priests on the north and south gates of the inner court (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',40,'44-46');">Eze 40:44-46</a>). He now returns to take a more exact view of them.
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<p id="Eze42_5"><b>5. shorter</b>—that is, the building became <i>narrower</i> as it rose in height. The chambers were many: so "in My Father's house are many mansions" (<a onclick="return mV('Jhn',14,2);">Jhn 14:2</a>); and besides these there was much "room" still left (compare <a onclick="return mV('Luk',14,22);">Luk 14:22</a>). The chambers, though private, were near the temple. Prayer in our chambers is to prepare us for public devotions, and to help us in improving them.
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<p id="Eze42_16"><b>16. five hundred reeds</b>—the <i>Septuagint</i> substitutes "cubits" for "reeds," to escape the immense compass assigned to the whole, namely, a square of five hundred rods or three thousand cubits (two feet each; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',40,5);">Eze 40:5</a>), in all a square of one and one-seventh miles, that is, more than all ancient Jerusalem; also, there is much space thus left unappropriated. FAIRBAIRN rightly supports <i>English Version,</i> which agrees with the <i>Hebrew.</i> The vast extent is another feature marking the ideal character of the temple. It symbolizes the great enlargement of the kingdom of God, when Jehovah-Messiah shall reign at Jerusalem, and from thence to the ends of the earth (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,'2-4');">Isa 2:2-4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',3,17);">Jer 3:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,12,15);">Rom 11:12, 15</a>).
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<p id="Eze42_19"><b>20. wall...separation between...sanctuary and...profane</b>—No longer shall the wall of partition be to separate the Jew and the Gentile (<a onclick="return mV('Eph',2,14);">Eph 2:14</a>), but to separate the sacred from the profane. The lowness of it renders it unfit for the purpose of defense (the object of the wall, <a onclick="return mV('Rev',21,12);">Rev 21:12</a>). But its square form (as in the city, <a onclick="return mV('Rev',21,16);">Rev 21:16</a>) is the emblem of the kingdom that cannot be shaken (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',12,28);">Hbr 12:28</a>), resting on prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ being the chief corner-stone.
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