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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 44:10 - 44:10
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Levites ... shall ... bear - namely, the punishment of
their iniquity ... Yet they shall be ministers - So Mark, a Levite, nephew of Barnabas (Act 4:36), was punished by Paul for losing an opportunity of bearing the cross of Christ, and yet was afterwards admitted into his friendship again, and showed his zeal (Act 13:13; Act 15:37; Col 4:10; 2Ti 4:11). One may be a believer, and that too in a distinguished place, and yet lose some special honor - be acknowledged as pious, yet be excluded from some dignity [Bengel].
charge at the gates - Better to be “a doorkeeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness” (Psa 84:10). Though standing as a mere doorkeeper, it is in the house of God, which hath foundations: whereas he who dwells with the wicked, dwells in but shifting tents.