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Ezequiel 42:20
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Por los cuatro lados lo midió; tenía un muro todo alrededor de quinientas cañas de largo y quinientas de ancho, para dividir entre lo sagrado y lo profano.
A los cuatro lados lo midi�; ten�a un muro todo alrededor de quinientas ca�as de longitud, y quinientas ca�as de anchura, para hacer separaci�n entre el santuario y el lugar profano.
A los cuatro lados lo midi�; tuvo el muro todo alrededor quinientas ca�as de longitud, y quinientas ca�as de anchura, para hacer separaci�n entre el Santuario y el lugar profano.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
it had: Ezekiel 40:5, Song of Solomon 2:9, Isaiah 25:1, Isaiah 26:1, Isaiah 60:18, Micah 7:11, Zechariah 2:5
five hundred: Ezekiel 45:2, Ezekiel 48:20, Revelation 21:12-17
a separation: Ezekiel 22:26, Ezekiel 44:23, Ezekiel 48:15, Leviticus 10:10, Luke 16:26, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Revelation 21:10-27
Reciprocal: Exodus 27:9 - the court Isaiah 54:11 - I will lay Ezekiel 43:11 - show them Ezekiel 43:12 - Upon Ephesians 2:21 - all Revelation 11:2 - the court
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He measured it by the four sides,.... Which were equilateral, parallel to each other, each measuring five hundred reeds; which in all made up two thousand reeds, or seven thousand yards: this shows that no material building can be designed; never was an edifice of such dimensions; this seems rather to describe a city than a temple; and denotes the largeness of the Gospel church state in the latter day, when the Jews will be converted, and the fulness of the Gentiles brought in:
it had a wall round about: the same with that in Ezekiel 40:5:
five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad; it was foursquare, as the building was, and exactly answered to that in its dimensions. The Jews say l the mountain of the house was five hundred cubits by five hundred; that is, a perfect square of five hundred cubits on every side, two thousand cubits in the whole compass about. Josephus m says the whole circuit was half a mile, every side containing the length of a two hundred and twenty yards. Now, says Doctor Lightfoot n, if any will take up the full circuit of the wall that encompassed the holy ground, according to our English measure, it will amount to half a mile and about one hundred and sixty six yards; and whosoever will likewise measure the square of Ezekiel, Ezekiel 42:20, will find it six times as large as this, Ezekiel 40:5, the whole amounting to three miles and a half, and about one hundred and forty yards, a compass incomparably larger than Mount Moriah divers times over; and by this very thing is showed that that is spiritually and mystically to be understood; wherefore these measures no doubt did, as Mr. Lee o observes, signify the great fulness of the Gentiles, and that compass of the church in Gospel days should be marvellously extended. The use of it was,
to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place: the church and the world; the world is profane, and lies in wickedness, and the men of it ought not to be admitted into the church of God, and partake of holy things in it; a difference must be made between the precious and the vile; and greater care will be taken in the latter day of the admission of members into Gospel churches, Isaiah 52:1,
Isaiah 52:1- :.
l Misn. Middot, c. 2. sect. 1. m Antiqu. l. 15. c. 11. sect. 3. Ed. Hudson. n Prospect of the Temple, c. 2. p. 1051. o Temple of Solomon portrayed, &c. p. 241.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The “sanctuary” proper is probably here the most holy place as distinguished from the rest of the temple Ezekiel 41:23; Ezekiel 45:3; but the term was capable of extension first to the whole temple, then to all the ground that was separated to “holy” as distinguished from “profane,” i. e., common uses.
In the vision the courts rose on successive platforms, the outer court being raised seven steps above the precincts, the inner court eight steps above the outer, and the temple itself ten steps above the court of sacrifice.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 42:20. It had a wall round about-to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. — The holy place was that which was consecrated to the Lord; into which no heathen, nor stranger, nor any in a state of impurity, might enter. The profane place was that in which men, women, Gentiles, pure or impure, might be admitted. Josephus says War, lib. vi., c. 14, that in his time there was a wall built before the entrance three cubits high, on which there were posts fixed at certain distances, with inscriptions on them in Latin and Greek, containing the laws which enjoined purity on those that entered; and forbidding all strangers to enter, on pain of death. See Calmet.
