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<p id="Chapter44" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 44
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<p id="Eze44_1"><a onclick="return mV('Eze',44,'1-31');">Eze 44:1-31</a>. ORDINANCES FOR THE PRINCE AND THE PRIESTS.
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<p id="Eze44_2"><b>2. shut...not be opened</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Job',12,14);">Job 12:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',22,22);">Isa 22:22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',3,7);">Rev 3:7</a>). "Shut" to the people (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',19,21,22);">Exd 19:21-22</a>), but open to "the prince" (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',44,3);">Eze 44:3</a>), he holding the place of God in political concerns, as the priests do in spiritual. As a mark of respect to an Eastern monarch, the gate by which he enters is thenceforth shut to all other persons (compare <a onclick="return mV('Exd',19,24);">Exd 19:24</a>).
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<p id="Eze44_3"><b>3. the prince</b>—not King Messiah, as He never would offer a burnt offering for Himself, as the prince is to do (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',46,4);">Eze 46:4</a>). The prince must mean the civil ruler under Messiah. His connection with the east gate (by which the Lord had returned to His temple) implies, that, as ruling under God, he is to stand in a place of peculiar nearness to God. He represents Messiah, who entered heaven, the true sanctuary, by a way that none other could, namely, by His own holiness; all others must enter as sinners by faith in His blood, through grace.
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<br><br><b>eat bread before the Lord</b>—a custom connected with sacrifices (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',31,54);">Gen 31:54</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',18,12);">Exd 18:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',24,11);">24:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',10,18);">1Cr 10:18</a>).
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<p id="Eze44_4"><b>4-6.</b> Directions as to the priests. Their acts of desecration are attributed to "the house of Israel" (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',44,6,7);">Eze 44:6-7</a>), as the sins of the priesthood and of the people acted and reacted on one another; "like people, like priest" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,31);">Jer 5:31</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',4,9);">Hsa 4:9</a>).
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<p id="Eze44_7"><b>7. uncircumcised in heart</b>—Israelites circumcised outwardly, but wanting the true circumcision of the heart (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',10,16);">Deu 10:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',7,51);">Act 7:51</a>).
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<br><br><b>uncircumcised in flesh</b>—not having even the outward badge of the covenant-people.
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<p id="Eze44_8"><b>8. keepers...for yourselves</b>—such as you yourselves thought fit, not such as I approve of. Or else, "Ye have not <i>yourselves</i> kept the charge of My holy things, but have set <i>others as</i> keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for yourselves" [MAURER].
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<p id="Eze44_10"><b>10, 11. Levites...shall...bear</b>—namely, the punishment of
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<br><br><b>their iniquity...Yet they shall be ministers</b>—So Mark, a <i>Levite,</i> nephew of Barnabas (<a onclick="return mV('Act',4,36);">Act 4:36</a>), was punished by Paul for losing an opportunity of bearing the cross of Christ, and yet was afterwards admitted into his friendship again, and showed his zeal (<a onclick="return mV('Act',13,13);">Act 13:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',15,37);">15:37</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Col',4,10);">Col 4:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ti',4,11);">2Ti 4:11</a>). One may be a believer, and that too in a distinguished place, and yet lose some special honor—be acknowledged as pious, yet be excluded from some dignity [BENGEL].
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<br><br><b>charge at the gates</b>—Better to be "a doorkeeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',84,10);">Psa 84:10</a>). Though standing as a mere doorkeeper, it is in the <i>house</i> of God, which hath foundations: whereas he who <i>dwells</i> with the wicked, dwells in but shifting <i>tents.</i>
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<p id="Eze44_13"></a> <a name="Eze44_14"></a>
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<p id="Eze44_15"><b>15. Zadok</b>—The priests of the line of Ithamar were to be discharged from ministrations in the temple, because of their corruptions, following in the steps of Eli's sons, against whom the same denunciation was uttered (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',2,32, 35);">1Sa 2:32, 35</a>). Zadok, according to his name (which means "righteous") and his line, were to succeed (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',2,35);">1Ki 2:35</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Ch',24,3);">1Ch 24:3</a>), as they did not take part in the general apostasy to the same degree, and perhaps [FAIRBAIRN] the prophet, referring to their original state, speaks of them as they appeared when first chosen to the office.
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<p id="Eze44_17"><b>17. linen</b>—symbolical of purity. Wool soon induces perspiration in the sultry East and so becomes uncleanly.
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<p id="Eze44_18"><b>18. bonnets</b>—turbans.
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<p id="Eze44_19"><b>19. not sanctify the people with their garments</b>—namely, those peculiarly priestly vestments in which they ministered in the sanctuary.
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<p id="Eze44_20"><b>20. Neither...shave...heads</b>—as mourners do (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',21,'1-5');">Lev 21:1-5</a>). The worshippers of the Egyptian idols Serapis and Isis shaved their heads; another reason why Jehovah's priests are not to do so.
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<br><br><b>nor suffer...locks to grow long</b>—as the luxurious, barbarians, and soldiers in warfare did [JEROME].
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<p id="Eze44_21"><b>21. Neither...wine</b>—lest the holy enthusiasm of their devotion should be mistaken for inebriation, as in Peter's case (<a onclick="return mV('Act',2,13,15);">Act 2:13, 15, 18</a>).
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<p id="Eze44_24"></a> <a name="Eze44_25"></a>
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<p id="Eze44_28"><b>28. I am their inheritance</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Num',18,20);">Num 18:20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',10,9);">Deu 10:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',10,9);">18:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jos',13,14,32);">Jos 13:14, 32</a>).
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<p id="Eze44_30"><b>30. give...priest the first...that he may cause the blessing to rest</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',3,9,10);">Pro 3:9-10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mal',3,10);">Mal 3:10</a>).
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