Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 43:8
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
8. Ref. is to the fact that the royal palace and the first temple stood virtually within the same enclosure and were one ensemble of edifice. See the sketch in W. R. Smith’s Art. Temple, Encyc. Brit.
and the wall between ] with but the wall between me and them; and they defiled.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 8. In their setting of their threshold] They had even gone so far as to set up their idol altars by those of Jehovah; so that their abominable idols were found in the very house of God! therefore, “he consumed them in his anger.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The idolatrous kings of Judah and Israel built, temples and altars for their idols, and these are called their thresholds. The Jews, or people of Judah, and their kings, erected these in the courts, or near the courts., of the temple, and so ill local nearness their threshold was by Gods thresholds, and their posts by his, that they were a nuisance to him. And there was but a wall between me and them, that under my eye, and within my hearing, they have with greatest presumption defiled my name.
Defiled my holy name; despised my ordinances, corrupted my worship, or forsaken it, used me as if I were neither great nor holy.
Abominations; abominable idolatries, and wickednesses not to be named.
Committed; acted boldly and openly, against precept, threat, and admonitions.
Wherefore I have consumed them; for which sins I brought destruction upon them. The Chaldeans ruined them, but they were the rod of Gods anger.
In mine anger; in great displeasure and wrath, i.e. in my provoked justice, as Eze 20:13; 22:31.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
In their setting of their threshold by my threshold,…. The threshold is the way of entrance into the house; when men open any other way of entrance into the house of God than he has directed, it is setting up their threshold by his: the Gospel way of entrance into the church of Christ is Christ himself, and faith in him, and a profession of it, and submission to the ordinance of baptism, Joh 10:1 Ac 2:41 but when men make carnal descent, religious education, mere morality and civility, the way of entrance into church communion; this is opposite to God’s way, and is resented by him; this shall not be hereafter:
and their post by my post; which is done when the ordinances of men are substituted in the room of the ordinances of God, or set upon a level with them; when the ordinances of God are changed and altered, or that brought into his worship which he has not commanded; and the commandments of men are taught for the doctrines of God: so the Pharisees set up the traditions of the elders as equal to the written word, and, made it of no effect by them; as the Papists do, by setting up their traditions, under the name of the traditions of the apostles, and of the church, upon a level with the Scriptures; and the same is done when men set up their own doctrines, concerning the Persons in the Godhead, concerning the power and purity of human nature, and the way of redemption; and oppose their own works to the grace of God, in justification, pardon, and salvation; the allusion is to the setting up of altars and idols in the house of the Lord, by his altar, 2Ki 21:4:
and the wall between me and them; that these sins and abominable practices were a wall of separation between God and them, and caused him to hide himself from them, withdraw his presence, and deny them communion with him, Isa 49:2, some render it, “for” or “so that there was but a wall between me and them” s; so near were their thresholds, posts, and altars, to his:
they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: by their false doctrines, idolatrous worship, and immoral lives; such abominations as before mentioned:
wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger; as the Jews are now, and all the antichristian states will be.
s “ita ut paries [tantum esset] inter me et illos”, Piscator.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(8) And the wall between.The sense is given in the margin: there was only a wall between me and them.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 43:8. And the wall And but a wall. Houbigant.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 43:8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Ver. 8. In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds. ] By broaching falsehoods for truth, and setting human devices in competition with the good Word of God. That detestable decree of the Council of Trent is well known, whereby the Apocrypha is set cheek by jowl, as they say, with the holy canon; the Vulgate translation with the original; traditions with Scriptures, and unwritten verities with those that are written. This is intolerable presumption. Jews and Turks do the like in their Talmud and Koran; that I speak not of our sect masters, who boldly obtrude their placits without just reproof, and require to be believed.
And the wall between me and them.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
setting, &c. Compare Eze 5:11; Eze 8:3-16; Eze 23:39; Eze 44:7. 2Ki 16:14, 2Ki 16:15; 2Ki 21:4-7; 2Ki 23:11, 2Ki 23:12; 2Ch 33:4, 2Ch 33:7.
by close by, alongside of.
and the wall: or, “For [there was but a] wall”.
abominations = idolatries.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
setting: Eze 5:11, Eze 8:3-16, Eze 23:39, Eze 44:7, 2Ki 16:14, 2Ki 16:15, 2Ki 21:4-7, 2Ki 23:11, 2Ki 23:12, 2Ch 33:4, 2Ch 33:7
and the wall between me and them: or, for there was but a wall between me and them
Reciprocal: Exo 20:23 – General 1Ki 12:32 – like unto 2Ki 16:10 – the pattern Jer 7:30 – they Jer 35:4 – door Eze 37:23 – shall they defile Eze 40:6 – threshold
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 43:8. The gist of this verse is that the people tried to mix the true with the false religion, and such a practice was always abominable in the sight of God. (Lev 10:10; Lev 11:47.) Have consumed them means they had lost their national standing by being exiled from their own land.