the goings.

Ezekiel 48:16,32-35 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred...

Revelation 21:16 And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed...

four. It is certainly most obvious to interpret these measures, not of cubits, but of the measuring reed which the prophet's conductor had in his hand; according to which, the city would be about thirty-six miles in circumference, and nine miles on each side of the square; which was exactly nine times larger than the greatest extent to which Jerusalem ever attained, (See on ver.

Ezekiel 48:15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city...

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Ezekiel 42:16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

.) The large dimensions of the city and land were perhaps intended to intimate the extensive and glorious propagation of the gospel in the times predicted; and the land was not called Canaan, not the city Jerusalem, probably because they were figurative of spiritual blessings to the church and to Israel.