Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 9. He that entereth in by the way of the north, &c.] As the north and the south gates were opposite to each other, he that came in at the north must go out at the south; he that came in at the south must go out at the north. No person was to come in at the east gate, because there was no gate at the west; and the people were not permitted to turn round and go out at the same place by which they came in; for this was like turning their backs on God, and the decorum and reverence with which public worship was to be conducted would not admit of this. Besides, returning by the same way must have occasioned a great deal of confusion, where so many people must have jostled each other, in their meetings in different parts of this space.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- In the period here foretold, the worship and the ministers of God wil be provided for; the princes will rule with justice, as holding their power under Christ; the people will live in peace, ease, and godliness These things seem to be represented in language taken from the custom of the times in which the prophet wrote. Christ is our Passover that is sacrificed for us: we celebrate the memorial of that sacrifice, an feast upon it, triumphing in our deliverance out of the Egyptia slavery of sin, and our preservation from the destroying sword of Divine justice, in the Lord's supper, which is our passover feast; a the whole Christian life is, and must be, the feast of the unleavene bread of sincerity and truth _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew ובבוא935 עם5971 הארץ776 לפני6440 יהוה3068 במועדים4150 הבא935 דרך1870 שׁער8179 צפון6828 להשׁתחות7812 יצא3318 דרך1870 שׁער8179 נגב5045 והבא935 דרך1870 שׁער8179 נגב5045 יצא3318 דרך1870 שׁער8179 צפונה6828 לא3808 ישׁוב7725 דרך1870 השׁער8179 אשׁר834 בא935 בו כי3588 נכחו5226 יצאו׃3318
