Matthew Poole Commentary - Ezekiel 40:5 - 40:5

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Ezekiel 40:5 - 40:5


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A wall: this was that outmost wall, which did encompass the whole ground on which the temple stood, and the courts that belonged to the temple; a wall that encompassed the whole Mount Zion, upon whose top the temple stood.



On the outside: this passage clears which wall it was, viz. the outermost of three, which the floor of the temple and the mount was encircled with.



Of the house; house of God, the temple, as Eze_10:4 2Ch_2:1,5.



In the man’s hand: the prophet is called to see and hear, but the standard is not put into his hand: Christ who is this man, hath and keeps the reed in his own hand, as the only fit person to take the measures of all.



Reed, or cane, for this measuring rod or staff was of those canes growing in that country, straight, long, and light, and which architects did make use of.



Of six cubits long; each cubit consisting of eighteen inches in our common account; and though there is much wrangling about the exact dimensions of this cubit, I will not intermeddle with the dispute, it was about one Roman foot and half, which comes very near to our English foot and half, or eighteen inches, or one half-yard.



An hand breadth, added to each six cubits, not, as some have supposed, to each cubit.



The breadth; the thickness of the walls, which were one reed and one hand’s breadth, or three yards and three inches, thick.



The height; and the height equal, taking the measure, not from the bottom of the wall in the valley on the outside, which was of different height, as the valley was of different depth, but taking the measure from the area, or floor, on the inside of the wall, it was in the whole circuit of equal height, as here.