7<\/strong>. into my sanctuary strangers<\/em> ] i.e. foreigners. What is reprobated is not of course allowing foreigners to present sacrifices to Jehovah, which they might do (Lev 17:10<\/span>; Lev 17:12<\/span>; Num 15:14<\/span>), but allowing them to officiate<\/em> in the offering, and in general in the ministry of the sanctuary. It is not ascertainable to what extent these uncircumcised heathen were permitted to fill the subordinate offices about the house, such as those of keepers of the gates and assistants to the priests, but just as the kings employed foreign mercenaries as guards (who were employed even in the temple, 2Ki 11:7<\/span>), it appears that persons not Israelites and not incorporated in Israel by the necessary rites, were employed in the house. They were probably captives taken in war and the like (Jos 9:27<\/span>; 1Sa 2:13<\/span>; Zec 14:21<\/span>; cf. Ezr 8:20<\/span>; Ezr 2:58<\/span>). This is regarded by the prophet as a profanation of the house and an infraction of the covenant between Jehovah and Israel. It is the latter from the nature of the case. Israel was the people of the Lord and his service must be performed by Israel. These heathen were uncircumcised both in flesh and heart, their service was purely mercenary, and without religious reality. For “and they have broken” LXX. reads, and ye have<\/em> broken, which is more exact.<\/p>\n because of all<\/em> ] Perhaps: in addition to<\/em> all your abominations.<\/p>\n Eze 44:7-8<\/span><\/p>\n In that ye have brought into My sanctuary strangers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The relation of the stranger to the service of the temple<\/strong><\/p>\n What is reprobated is not of course allowing foreigners to present sacrifices to Jehovah, which they might do (Lev 17:10<\/span>; Lev 17:12<\/span>), but allowing them to officiate in the offering, and in general in the ministry of the sanctuary. This is regarded by the prophet as a profanation of the house, and an infraction of the covenant between Jehovah and Israel. It is the latter from the nature of the case. Israel was the people of the Lord, and His service must be performed by Israel. These heathen were uncircumcised both in flesh and heart; their service was purely mercenary, and without religious reality. (A. B. Davidson, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 7<\/span>. The fat and the blood<\/B><\/I>] These never went into common use; they were wholly offered to God. The blood<\/I> was poured out; the fat<\/I> consumed.<\/P> <\/P> Because of all your abominations.<\/B><\/I>] Several MSS. of Kennicott’s<\/I> and De Rossi’s<\/I> read their abominations<\/I>, referring to the strangers mentioned before.<\/P> <\/p>\n Ye have brought; <\/B>either by abusing your power you have licensed, or by conniving you have permitted, to come into my holy courts. <\/P> Strangers; <\/B>foreigners and heathen, who had their idols in the very courts of the temple, and there worshipped their idols, as Eze 8:5<\/span>,10<\/span>,14<\/span>,16<\/span>. <\/P> Uncircumcised in heart; <\/B>the worst of them, profane and impious. <\/P> Uncircumcised in flesh:<\/B> no uncircumcised one should come into the court of the people, but you have brought them into the very sanctuary at the times of public worship, and when you have been offering my bread, &c. Some think that the profane carelessness of the Jewish rulers was such, that they suffered uncircumcised ones to be priests among them, and to approach to Gods altar. This was done in Solomons degenerate days, and in the days of Ahaz, Manasseh, Amon. <\/P> My bread; <\/B>either the meat-offering, or first-fruits of corn and dough, and the show-bread. <\/P> The fat, <\/B>which was taken off the sacrifices and burnt. <\/P> The blood, <\/B>how let out, received into vessels, sprinkled and poured out, the priests and rulers of my house, through a sinful familiarity with heathens, have given them courage to ask, and you have not zeal and courage enough to refuse them, but you have satisfied their forbidden curiosity, and showed them all these things; or, as was said, have advanced some to be priests in my house, and suffered others to be priests of idols, standing and worshipped in my courts. <\/P> They, <\/B>the whole nation of the Jews, the people of the land, <\/P> have broken my covenant; <\/B>turned idolaters, mixed with heathens, forsaken me and my law, taking example from your practices, or complying with your superstitious and idolatrous inventions. <\/P> <\/p>\n 7. uncircumcised in heart<\/B>Israelitescircumcised outwardly, but wanting the true circumcision of the heart(Deu 10:16<\/span>; Act 7:51<\/span>).<\/P> uncircumcised in flesh<\/B>nothaving even the outward badge of the covenant-people.<\/P><\/p>\n In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers<\/strong>,…. Unregenerate men, who are in a state of alienation and estrangement to divine and spiritual things: strangers to God; to the true knowledge of him in Christ; to the fear and love of God; to the true grace of God in conversion; and to communion with him: strangers to Christ, to his person and offices; to the way of peace, life, and salvation by him; to his righteousness; to faith in him, love of him, and fellowship with him: strangers to the Spirit; to his person, to regeneration and sanctification by him; to the graces of the Spirit, faith, hope, love, humility, self-denial, c. to the things of the Spirit, which they neither know nor savour; and to the several offices he performs, as a comforter, the Spirit of adoption, an earnest and sealer: strangers to their own hearts, and the plague of them, and sin that dwells in them: strangers to the nature of sin, and the exceeding sinfulness of it; to the deceitfulness of sin, and the consequences of it; to true repentance for it, and to the right way of atonement of it, by the blood of Christ: strangers to the Gospel of Christ, and the truths of it; and to the saints and people of God:<\/p>\n and uncircumcised in heart<\/strong>; who never were pricked in the heart for sin, or felt any pain there on account of it; never had the hardness of their heart removed, or the impurity of it discovered to them; never were filled with shame and loathing because of it; or ever put off the body of sins in a course of conversation; or renounced their own righteousness:<\/p>\n and uncircumcised in flesh<\/strong>; carnal, as they were born; men in the flesh, in a state of nature, mind and savour the things of the flesh, and do the works of it; having never been taught by the grace of God to deny ungodliness, and worldly lusts, and to abstain from fleshly ones: or, who put their trust in the flesh, in outward things, in carnal privileges, and external righteousness: these the Lord complains were brought<\/p>\n to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house<\/strong>: either to be members here, and partake of all the ordinances and privileges of the Lord’s house; or to officiate here as priests and ministers of the Lord:<\/p>\n when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood<\/strong>; which, under the law, were the Lord’s; and here signify the ministry of the word and ordinances, the goodness and fatness of the Lord’s house; and especially the ordinance of the Lord’s supper, that feast of fat things; in which Christ, the true and living bread of God, whose flesh is meat indeed, and whose blood is drink indeed, is represented to the faith of God’s people:<\/p>\n and they have broken my covenant, because of all your abominations<\/strong>: that is, have broken the rule of the divine word and everlasting Gospel by such abominations; by admitting such ministers and members, the one to administer, the other to partake of, Gospel ordinances: this is the true state of the case of most of the reformed churches in our days; it is to be feared that there are multitudes of unregenerate ministers in them; that they are full of carnal professors; and notorious it is that the ordinance of the Lord’s supper is prostituted to wicked persons, and to answer ends it never was designed for; which must be an abomination to the Lord.<\/p>\n (7) Strangers, uncircumcised in heart.<\/strong>The heathen living in Israel, or coining to worship at the Temple, were allowed, and even in some cases required, to offer sacrifices (Lev. 17:10<\/span>; Lev. 17:12<\/span>; Num. 15:14<\/span>; Num. 15:26<\/span>; Num. 15:29<\/span>). This seems also to have been recognised in Solomons prayer at the consecration of the Temple (1Ki. 8:41-43<\/span>); but the ground on which the Israelites are here censured for the licence given to strangers is, that they allowed those to draw near in worship who were uncircumcised in heart<\/em> as well as in flesh, i.e.,<\/em> ungodly men who had no real purpose to worship God.<\/p>\n 7, 8<\/strong>. <\/strong> Strangers, uncircumcised in heath and uncircumcised in flesh <\/strong> These “aliens” (R.V.) were not excluded from entering the temple and offering sacrifices to Jehovah in their own behalf (Lev 17:8<\/span>; Lev 17:10<\/span>; Lev 17:12<\/span>; Num 15:14<\/span>; Num 15:29<\/span>), but foreigners (probably slaves or captives in war), who had no sympathy whatever with the Israelitish religion, ought not to be permitted to take official positions in Jehovah’s house, as had sometimes been done (Jos 9:27<\/span>; 1Sa 2:13<\/span>; Zec 14:21<\/span>; Ezr 2:58<\/span>, Hebrews). Service with the lip or the hand only is an abomination to God. Even otherwise menial services become sacred when done for Jehovah, and it is an insult to him when such services are put upon ignorant and impure foreigners who have no heart loyalty to the lord of the house. (Compare W.R. Smith, Old Testament in the Jewish Church, <\/em> pp. 260-266.) It was practically breaking covenant with Jehovah to set them as keepers of my charge in my sanctuary <\/strong> (Eze 44:8<\/span>).<\/p>\n Eze 44:7<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>When ye offer my bread, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> “At the same time that ye offer sacrifices upon the altar, or that ye suffer heathens to offer at that altar, expressly against the law.” By bread <\/em>may be understood the meat-offering made of flour: the fat <\/em>and blood <\/em>of every sacrifice were peculiarly appropriated to God. Instead of, and they have broken, <\/em>Houbigant reads, and break.<\/em> <\/p>\n Eze 44:7 In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.<\/p>\n Ver. 7. Strangers.<\/strong> ] Yourselves are no better; Amo 9:7 strangers from the covenants; Eph 2:12 degenerate children, Isa 1:4 alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in you, Eph 4:18 and through your blind leaders of the blind, priests of your own making, &c. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Uncircumcised in heart.<\/strong> ] Erroneous in judgment. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Uncircumcised in flesh.<\/strong> ] Enormous in practice. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When ye offer my bread,<\/strong> ] i.e., <\/em> The fat and the blood, as it followeth, which I seem to feed upon as a man doth upon bread. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Because of all your abominations.<\/strong> ] Or, Besides all your abominations mentioned. Eze 44:6 <\/p>\n strangers = aliens. Hebrew “sons of the foreigner “<\/p>\n uncircumcised in heart. Reference to Pentateuch, (Lev 26:41. Deu 10:16), App-92. Compare Jer 9:25, Jer 9:26. <\/p>\n pollute = profane. <\/p>\n offer = bring near. <\/p>\n the fat and the blood. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 3:16, Lev 3:17). they. Most of the ancient versions read “ye”. <\/p>\n ye have brought: Eze 44:9, Eze 7:20, Eze 22:26, Eze 43:7, Eze 43:8, Lev 22:25, Act 21:28 <\/p>\n strangers: Heb. children of a stranger, Isa 56:6, Isa 56:7 <\/p>\n uncircumcised in heart: The introduction of uncircumcised persons to eat of the peace offerings and oblations, would have been a gross violation of the Mosaic law; but, as there was no law to exclude “the uncircumcised of heart,” who were circumcised and ritually clean, this seems to point out a new and different constitution. Lev 26:41, Deu 10:16, Deu 30:6, Jer 4:4, Jer 9:26, Act 7:51, Rom 2:28, Rom 2:29, Col 2:11-13 <\/p>\n when: Lev 3:16, Lev 21:6, Lev 21:8, Lev 21:17, Lev 21:21, Lev 22:25, Mal 1:7, Mal 1:12-14, Joh 6:52-58 <\/p>\n the fat: Lev 3:13-17, Lev 17:11 <\/p>\n broken: Gen 17:14, Lev 26:15, Deu 31:16, Deu 31:20, Isa 24:5, Jer 11:10, Jer 31:32, Heb 8:9 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Lev 3:5 – Aaron’s Lev 3:11 – the food Lev 3:17 – blood Lev 17:10 – that eateth 1Sa 31:4 – uncircumcised Psa 18:44 – strangers Lam 1:10 – whom Eze 5:11 – thou hast Eze 23:39 – thus Eze 28:10 – the deaths Eze 32:25 – all of them Eze 44:15 – the fat Zep 3:4 – her priests<\/p>\n Eze 44:7, When circumcision is used figuratively or spiritually, it means consecration and devotion to duty unto the Lord. The people of Israel had become so inconsistent In their practices that the Lord regarded them as uncircumcised.<\/p>\n 44:7 In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] {b} strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.<\/p>\n (b) For they had brought idolaters who were from other countries, to teach them their idolatry, Eze 23:40 .<\/p>\n In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. 7. into my sanctuary strangers ] i.e. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 44:7”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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