Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 45:25
In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.
25. Feast of tabernacles on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. Render: in the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like, the seven days. The “feast” is that of tabernacles, the feast par excellence of the year, concluding the yearly round of festivals (Isa 29:1). For this feast the prince makes the same provision as for the feast of unleavened bread ( Eze 45:23).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 25. In the seventh month] He shall do at the feast of tabernacles the same things that he was desired to do on the passover. The prince should offer the same number of victims, of the same quality, and with the same ceremonies, as during the above seven days. The offerings were, sin-offerings, burnt-offerings, and peace-offerings.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The seventh month, according to their ecclesiastical account, Tisri, which answers to part of our August and September.
The fifteenth day; on that day the feast of tabernacles began, and it continued seven days.
Shall he, the prince, as before, Eze 45:24, do the like, in every respect, for sacrifices, and all that belonged to them.
According to the sin offering, & c.: as was required at the passover, so at this feast also, and therefore you are referred to the particulars of that feast.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month,…. The month Tisri, which answers to part of our September and October:
shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days; the feast of tabernacles, which began the fifteenth of Tisri, and was kept seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, which is not here taken notice of: this feast was in commemoration of the Jews dwelling in tabernacles in the wilderness; and was typical of Christ’s tabernacling in our nature, or of his incarnation; and which feast is to be kept in Gospel times, and particularly in the latter day, by believing in the incarnate Saviour, and in all the blessings flowing from his incarnation; and by attending the Gospel feast, his word and ordinances, which hold him forth as the only Saviour; [See comments on Zec 14:16], now, the same things are to be done at this feast as at the feast of the passover:
according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil: that is, so many bullocks and rams for the burnt offering, and a kid of the goats for the sin offering, as before; and the same quantity of fine flour and oil for the meat offering: this also is a new thing, as Kimchi observes; for, according to the law, the sacrifices at the feast of passover, and at the feast of tabernacles, were very different; and it might be further observed, that no notice is taken of the feast of pentecost, or first fruits; and the whole confirms what has been already observed, that this shows the abrogation of the Mosaic economy; and that these things are to be understood in a spiritual and evangelic sense.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(25) In the seventh month.This corresponds to the Feast of Tabernacles, though the name is not mentioned, doubtless because the custom of living in booths is to be discontinued. The sacrifices at this feast are to be the same as at the Passover, and are to be repeated for each day of the feast. There is in this an entire change from the peculiar ordinances of the Mosaic law (Num. 29:12-24), and on the whole a great diminution in the number of sacrifices, with a simplification of the ritual, and an omission of the eighth day, added to the feast by the Mosaic law.
Ezekiel here omits altogether the Feast of Pentecost, the Day of Atonement, and the Day of Trumpets (the first of the seventh month); for these he substitutes a special sin offering for the first and seventh days of the first month, and for the first day of the Paschal feast; he, moreover, largely modifies the ritual of the two feasts which he retains. All this essentially transforms the ideas which form the basis of the cycle of the Mosaic feasts. No attempt was ever made by the Jews of the restoration to carry out the scheme here set forth; and it appears to have been regarded by the prophets contemporaries and successors as purely ideal.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
“In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, during the feast he will do the like for seven days, with regard to the sin offering, with regard to the whole burnt offering, with regard to the meal offering and with regard to the oil.”
In the seventh month, the agricultural new year, at the feast of tabernacles, the same process would be repeated.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 45:25. In the seventh month “He shall do at the feast of tabernacles all the same things which have already been appointed for him to do on the passover.”
REFLECTIONS.1st, The division of the land here directed is very different from that made by Moses and Joshua, and the extent of the country divided vastly exceeds that ancient inheritance of God’s Israel, the land of Canaan: this, therefore, may properly be referred to the kingdom of Christ, and his church, enlarged by the vast accession of converts both of Jews and Gentiles.
1. The first portion is for God, his sanctuary in the midst, and around it the abode of the priests and Levites, with the land appropriated for their use; and this is considered as an oblation unto the Lord; for what is done to them for his sake, he accepts as done unto himself. Their residence is near the sanctuary, for there must their constant attendance be. A non-resident minister of Christ is a contradiction in terms.
2. The next portion is for the city, where the whole house of Israel, some at least of every tribe, dwelt: a figure of the Israel of God, united in one communion, and become one fold under one shepherd.
3. The portion of the prince is allotted him without: the admeasurement is not mentioned, but enough to maintain his dignity, and prevent the oppression of the people; which some interpret of the prince Messiah, whose dominion shall extend east and west, and who is around his church and people as a guard to protect them from the inroads of every enemy. (But see the Annotations).
4. The rest of the land is appointed for the tribes to inhabit, who, under the government of their prince Messiah, shall be safe and happy.
2nd, We have,
1. An injunction laid on the princes to avoid all oppression, and minister true judgment to the people, it being high time to put an end to the past scene of extortion and violence. Princes must remember that they are but men, and accountable to him from whom they have received their power; the abuse of which will in the end prove fatally ruinous to themselves.
2. The people must exercise uprightness in their dealings toward each other, and particularly be conscientiously exact in their coins, weights, and measures. True piety towards God will ever produce honesty towards men.
3rdly, Particular directions are laid down for the service of God.
1. Respecting the oblations to be offered by all the people of the land: of their corn a sixtieth part; of their wine a hundredth; of their lambs one in two hundred, from the fattest pastures, must be offered, for the prince in Israel, or to the prince in Israel, the Lord Jesus, to whose honour these were devoted for the more immediate service of his church, and for whose sake they are accepted. Note; (1.) They who enjoy the blessings of God’s providence are bound to honour him with a part of their abundance. (2.) Our oblations, prayers, and praises are then accepted, when the atoning blood of the Lamb has made the reconciliation, and opened for us a way to the throne of God.
2. Respecting their solemnities, which differed very much from the Mosaical institutions, and intimated a change in that dispensation:
[1.] On the first day of the year the sanctuary was to be cleansed by the blood of a sin-offering; and the same ceremony was to be repeated on the seventh day for him that had erred and was simple. Even sanctuaries on earth have need of the atoning blood; the purest societies of Christians must ever apply to the atoning blood; and we are bound every year, yea, every day, to beg the forgiveness of our negligences and ignorances, which, without the all-powerful intercession and oblation of the great high priest of our profession, Jesus Christ, must eternally destroy us.
[2.] On the fourteenth of Nisan the passover is to be kept, with the seven days of unleavened bread; and a bullock each day, offered for a sin-offering, prepared by the prince, with its meat and drink-offering; besides a kid of the goats each day for a sin-offering, and seven bullocks and rams for a burnt-offering. All which are typical of the Lord Jesus, who has prepared himself a sacrifice for us, and is our passover, by whose blood we have received the atonement, to whom we must have an eye in all our approaches to God, and on whom by faith we must feast, to the strengthening and refreshing of our souls.
[3.] On the seventh month, the fifteenth day, the feast of tabernacles is ordered to be observed seven days, with the same sacrifices as before: all pointing to the great Redeemer, and directing us to him in and through whom alone all our services are accepted of God.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
REFLECTIONS
To whom shall I look, blessed Jesus, but to thee, as the glorious Prince here spoken of, and the sovereign of thy Church, thine house, and thy people. Surely, Lord, all and every oblation is of thine own free cost, and thou art the sum and substance of all. In whatever point of view thy redeemed behold thee, under whatever period of thy Church, thou art regarded, thou art the same: the Alpha and Omega; the Lord of thy Temple; the Prophet, Priest, and King. Through every dispensation, whether Law, or Gospel; under every government, in thy suffering state, and triumphant state; the reign of grace, and the reign of glory: the Church militant, or the Church victorious; the millennial, or the everlasting kingdom; thy dominion extends through all, and thou art over all, God blessed forever! Oh! then cause every man to bow before thee, and every tongue to confess that thou art Jesus Christ, the ever blessed ever glorious Prince and Saviour, to the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 45:25 In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.
Ver. 25. In the feast of the seven days, ] i.e., Of tabernacles, wont to be of eight days. Lev 23:34-35 Quam sunt nova omnia There are all thing new. Of Pentecost here is no mention at all.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
seventh month
i.e. October.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
In the seventh: The prince shall do at the feast of tabernacles the same thing he was desired to do on the passover. Lev 23:33-43, Num 29:12-38, Deu 16:13-15, 2Ch 5:3, 2Ch 7:8-10, Neh 8:14-18, Zec 14:16-19, Joh 7:2, Joh 7:37-39
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 45:25. This feast of 7 days in the seventh month is called the feast of tabernacles in Leviticus 23; 34. It was instituted to commemorate the experience of the children of Israel who dwelt in tents or tabernacles during the 40 years they were going through the wilderness.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 45:25. In the seventh month According to their ecclesiastical account, which is Tisri, and answers to part of our August and September. In the fifteenth day, &c., shall he do the like Namely, the prince. On that day the feast of tabernacles began, and continued seven days. Here we see the deficiency of the legal sacrifices for sin; they were often repeated, not only every year, but every feast, and every day of the feast, because they could not make the comers thereunto perfect. Hence we may also learn the necessity of frequently repeating the same religious exercises. Indeed, the sacrifice of atonement was offered once for all; but the sacrifice of acknowledgment, that of a broken heart, that of a thankful heart, must be offered every day. And these spiritual sacrifices are always acceptable to God through Christ Jesus.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at the feast on that day, the prince would repeat the cycle of offerings he made during the Passover. This feast corresponds to the seven-day feast of Tabernacles under the Mosaic system (cf. Lev 23:39-43; Num 29:12-38). In the Millennium it will undoubtedly be a celebration of God’s faithfulness in bringing the Israelites securely and permanently into the Promised Land, which the feast of Tabernacles anticipated.
Other feasts of Israel in the past receive no mention in Ezekiel’s revelation concerning future worship: Firstfruits, Pentecost (Harvest, Weeks), Trumpets, and day of Atonement. Probably they will be absent in the future millennial system of worship. Some scholars believe that by describing only two of the feasts (Passover/Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles) Ezekiel was using a figure of speech (merism) and meant the reader to understand all the others. It is, of course, a dangerous interpretive practice to assume that the writer intended something that he did not state, especially when so much detail characterizes this portion of Ezekiel. However, this interpretation is possible.