Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. This gate shall be shut] It was not to be opened on ordinary occasions, nor at all on the week days: but only on the Sabbaths and the new moons. See the account of the gates (4) in the explanation of the plan.
This verse has been adduced by the Roman Catholics to prove the perpetual virginity of the mother of our Lord; and it may be allowed to be as much to the purpose as any other that has been brought to prove this very precarious point, on which no stress should ever be laid by any man.
Mary was a virgin when she brought forth Jesus.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- 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 u of God, through Him, are shown to us by the Holy Ghost, they make u ashamed for our sins. This frame of mind prepares us for fulle discoveries of the mysteries of redeeming love; and the whole of the Scriptures should be opened and applied, that men may see their sins and repent of them. We are not now to offer any atoning sacrifices, for by one offering Christ has perfected for ever those that ar sanctified, Heb. 10:14; but the sprinkling of his blood is needful in all our approaches to God the Father. Our best services can be accepte only as sprinkled with the blood which cleanses from all sin _________________________________________________
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