Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 43:23
When thou hast made an end of cleansing [it], thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
23. The burnt-offering, following the sin-offering, was a young bullock and a ram.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
There was, on each of the seven days, a burnt-offering of a bullock and a ram, preceded by a sin-offereng of a bullock on the first day, and of a kid of the goats on the other days.
Eze 43:24
Salt is here added to the burnt-offering to express still more the idea of purification. In the second temple no sacrifice was complete without the use of salt, and the rabbis assert that there was a great heap of salt close to the altar, always ready for use, and that the inclined plane to the altar was kept covered with salt. Compare Mar 9:49.
Eze 43:26
Consecrate themselves – literally, as in the margin. Lev 8:27. The priests are already consecrated, but the memory of their consecration was thus kept up at the dedication of the altar.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Made an end of the first and second days sacrifices, and cleansing the altar.
Thou shalt offer on the third day, and so on, through seven days.
A ram: a kid, Eze 43:22, now a ram; both, or either, as God appoints; there was no inherent excellency in either one or other to commend them to God, but a male and without blemish it must be.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
When thou hast made an end of cleansing it,…. The altar, by the sacrifices of the bullock and the kid, on the first and second days; then, on the third day,
thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish; all these sacrifices point at the one sacrifice of Christ; which was pure and perfect, and once offered up for the sins of many, and needs no reiteration; only the doctrine of it is to be frequently inculcated in the ministry of the word and ordinances.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(23) Hast made an end of cleansing it.Not an end of the entire service of consecration, but of the sin offering for the day, for Eze. 43:25 says distinctly that both a sin offering and a burnt offering were to be offered on each day of the seven. The reason that the burnt offering is not mentioned on the first day is, that the sin offering being changed on the second day, the prophet first describes that for both days, and then goes to the other, which remained the same throughout. Here the burnt offering is a bullock and a ram; in Exodus 29 two rams.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 43:23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing [it], thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
Ver. 23. Thou shalt offer. ] See on Eze 43:19 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 43:23. Another repetition is required even after the altar had been cleansed, It signified that the fitness of the divine institutions is not all that is required, but the worshiper must also be present with the suitable preparation.