Ezequiel 45:22

22 'En ese día, el príncipe ofrecerá por sí mismo y por todo el pueblo de la tierra un novillo en ofrenda por el pecado.

Ezequiel 45:22 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 45:22

And upon that day
The fourteenth day of the month Nisan; the first day of the passover, as Kimchi observes: shall the prince prepare for himself, and for all the people of the
land, a bullock for a sin offering;
here everything again is new, as the above Jewish writer observes; no one circumstance according to the law of Moses; which shows that this respects Gospel times; when the law would be null and void, the types and shadows gone, and the antitype take place, Christ the sum of all; under the law, every family was to prepare a lamb for themselves; but here the prince is to prepare for himself, and all the people of the land; by that it was to be a lamb, here a bullock, and that for a sin offering; whereas not a bullock, but a goat, was used for a sin offering. Christ himself is this Prince, and who has prepared himself a sacrifice, even for himself, his church, which is mystically himself; and to make atonement for all those sins which he took upon himself by imputation, and made his own; even for all his chosen people, and for all their sins: of his preparing this sacrifice, both to be offered up, and to be held forth in the ministry of the word, (See Gill on Ezekiel 45:17), and who is very fitly represented by a bullock for his labouriousness and strength, in bearing the sins of his people, when he became an offering for them.

Ezequiel 45:22 In-Context

20 'Y así harás el día séptimo del mes para todo aquel que se desvíe o que sea ingenuo. Así haréis expiación por el templo.

21 'En el mes primero, a los catorce días del mes, será para vosotros la Pascua, fiesta de siete días; en ella se comerá el pan sin levadura.

22 'En ese día, el príncipe ofrecerá por sí mismo y por todo el pueblo de la tierra un novillo en ofrenda por el pecado.

23 'Y en los siete días de la fiesta ofrecerá en holocausto al SEÑOR siete novillos y siete carneros sin defecto, cada día de los siete días, y en ofrenda por el pecado un macho cabrío cada día.

24 'Y proveerá como ofrenda de cereal un efa por novillo, un efa por carnero, y un hin de aceite por efa.