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Proximity Without Purity
Commentators explain that this verse literally refers to the king's palace being built right next to God's temple, with only a wall separating them. When the kings engaged in idolatry, this physical closeness to God's sacred space, without spiritual purity, became a profound defilement of His holy name. This illustrates the danger of being near to holy things without a holy heart.
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Ezekiel
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Albert Barnes
On Ezekiel 43:7–8
18th Century
Theologian
He said – that is, God "said." Both the Septuagint and the Vulgate break this verse into two, so as to make the first half the solemn words …
Charles Ellicott
On Ezekiel 43:8
19th Century
Bishop
And the wall between.— The sense is given in the margin: there was only a wall between me and them.
John Gill
On Ezekiel 43:8
17th Century
Pastor
In their setting of their threshold by my threshold
The threshold is the way of entrance into the house; when men op…
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Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 43:1–27
17th Century
Minister
After Ezekiel had surveyed the temple of God, he had a vision of the glory of God. When Christ crucified, and the things freely given to us of God,…