Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
Ezekiel Ch.40 / 48 Ch.s
EZE:40
* The Vision of the Temple.
- Here is a vision, beginning at ch. 40, and continued to the
end of the book, ch. 48, which is justly looked upon to be one
of the most difficult portions in all the book of God. When we
despair to be satisfied as to any difficulty we meet with, let
us bless God that our salvation does not depend upon it, but
that things necessary are plain enough; and let us wait till God
shall reveal even this unto us. This chapter describes two
outward courts of the temple. Whether the personage here
mentioned was the Son of God, or a created angel, is not clear.
But Christ is both our Altar and our Sacrifice, to whom we must
look with faith in all approaches to God; and he is Salvation in
the midst of the earth, #Ps 74:12|, to be looked unto from all
quarters.