Ezequiel 44:11

11 Contudo serão ministros no meu santuário, tendo ao seu cargo a guarda das portas do templo, e ministrando no templo. Eles imolarão o holocausto, e o sacrifício para o povo, e estarão perante ele, para o servir.

Ezequiel 44:11 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 44:11

Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary
Though degraded from their office as priests and ministers of the word, yet being restored from their sins and errors, shall have a place in the house of God, and do their work there in a less honourable and a more servile way; as in former times, when ministers had sinned foully, and were degraded from their office, upon repentance they were not restored to that, but only admitted to lay communion; see ( 2 Kings 23:9 ) : having charge at the gates of the house;
like those sort of Levites who were porters and doorkeepers in the temple, or like our sextons or pew openers now: and ministering to the house;
employed as the Gibeonites were in hewing wood and bringing water for the use of the sanctuary, or in repairing of it; learning and exercising the business of smiths, masons, and carpenters: they shall slay the burnt offering, and the sacrifice for the people;
not bring it to the altar, and offer it there; only slay it, and skin it for the priests; which is not to be understood literally, there being no such sacrifice in Gospel times; but to denote the menial service and inferior post that such shall be employed in; if they have no trade, they shall learn one, in order to get a livelihood for themselves, and be serviceable to the interest of religion in a lower way; but ministers of the word they shall not be: and they shall stand before them to minister unto them;
either before the priests, whose servants they shall be, or before the people; signifying that those that sin publicly shall be rebuked before all.

Ezequiel 44:11 In-Context

9 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Nenhum estrangeiro, incircunciso de coração e carne, de todos os estrangeiros que se acharem no meio dos filhos de Israel, entrará no meu santuário.

10 Mas os levitas que se apartaram para longe de mim, desviando-se de mim após os seus ídolos, quando Israel andava errado, levarão sobre si a sua punição.

11 Contudo serão ministros no meu santuário, tendo ao seu cargo a guarda das portas do templo, e ministrando no templo. Eles imolarão o holocausto, e o sacrifício para o povo, e estarão perante ele, para o servir.

12 Porque lhes ministraram diante dos seus ídolos, e serviram � casa de Israel de tropeço de iniqüidade; por isso eu levantei a minha mão contra eles, diz o Senhor Deus, e eles levarão sobre si a sua punição.

13 E não se chegarão a mim, para me servirem no sacerdócio, nem se chegarão a nenhuma de todas as minhas coisas sagradas, �s coisas que são santíssimas; mas levarão sobre si a sua vergonha e as suas abominações que cometeram.