a profane.

Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane...

Ezekiel 42:20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad...

Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean...

Ezekiel 45:6 And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long...

for the city. The holy oblation of

25,000 square reeds, or near fifty square miles, was divided into three parts from north to south (see on ch.

Ezekiel 45:1 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an oblation to the LORD, an holy portion of the land...

): a portion on the north of

10,000 reeds in width, and

25,000 in length, for the priests, in the midst of which was the sanctuary or temple, surrounded by a wall

500 reeds square, (ver.

Ezekiel 45:9 Thus said the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice...

,

Ezekiel 45:10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

; see on ch.

Ezekiel 42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east...

;) next to this another portion of the same dimensions for the Levites, (ver.

Ezekiel 42:13 Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers...

,

Ezekiel 42:14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court...

;) and on the south another portion of the same length, but only

5,000 reeds in breadth, for the city (ver.

Ezekiel 42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east...

.) The city was situated in the midst of this portion, being

4,500 reeds, or about nine miles square, (see on ver.

30,) having a suburb of

250 reeds, or about half a mile, on each side, (ver.

Ezekiel 42:17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

.) leaving

10,000 reeds or nearly ten miles, on the east side, and the same on the west side, for the profit of those who serve the city out of all the tribes, (ver.

Ezekiel 42:18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

,

Ezekiel 42:19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

.) On the east and west sides of this square of

25,000 reeds, is the portion of the prince; each of which, estimating the breadth of the land at

150 miles, would form a square of fifty miles. Thus the whole plan of the division of the country, laying out of the city, temple, and all its appendages, is perfectly regular and uniform; and would therefore convey to the minds of the Jews the most complete idea they were capable of conceiving of the most perfect church, commonwealth, city, temple, and conveniences, on the largest and grandest scale for the Divine worship; and it doubtless ultimately points out the land of Immanuel, the city of the New Jerusalem, and his temple, the Christian church, the house of the living God.

1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God...