Ezechiele 42:6

6 Perciocchè quelle camere erano a tre solai, e quelle non aveano colonne, come quelle de’ cortili; e perciò, quell’alto solaio era raccorciato più che il basso, e il mezzano da terra.

Ezechiele 42:6 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 42:6

For they were in three stories
Not only the galleries or posts, but the chambers; they were one over another; there were the lowermost, middlemost, and uppermost; which, as before, may denote the difference in churches, and the different states, conditions, and characters of those that are in them; some being fathers, others young men, and others little children: or their different offices and relations; some being pastors, others deacons, and others private members: or their knowledge of and profession of faith in the doctrine of the Trinity, the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; and their being baptized in the name of the three divine Persons; and their being built on Christ the foundation, a habitation for God through the Spirit: but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts;
those which supported the porticos and galleries in the courts of the temple, not pillars so thick and strong as they: so the churches represented by these chambers, though they have Gospel ministers, which are as pillars, and valuable members, which are as such, that shall not go out; yet they have not those external supports from great and rich men, but consist generally of the poor of this world, as churches on a civil establishment have, who are supported by the state: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the
middlemost from the ground;
the upper part of it, or the uppermost chambers, were more straitened, and had less room in them, than the middlemost, and the middlemost than the lowest; suggesting, that the more heavenly and spiritual men are, the farther they depart from the men of the world and their conversation, from the sentiments and practices of natural men, the more they are exposed to their scorn and contempt, and are the more afflicted and straitened by them.

Ezechiele 42:6 In-Context

4 E davanti alle camere vi era un corridoio, largo dieci cubiti, ritratto in dentro d’un cubito; e gli usci delle camere erano verso il Settentrione.

5 Or le camere del solaio più alto erano raccorciate; perciocchè i pilastri di quello erano più piccoli che que’ degli altri, cioè, che que’ del solaio basso, e del mezzano dell’edificio.

6 Perciocchè quelle camere erano a tre solai, e quelle non aveano colonne, come quelle de’ cortili; e perciò, quell’alto solaio era raccorciato più che il basso, e il mezzano da terra.

7 E la chiusura, ch’era in fuori, davanti alle camere, traendo verso il cortile di fuori, dirincontro alle camere, era di cinquanta cubiti di lunghezza.

8 Perciocchè la lunghezza delle camere, ch’erano nel cortile di fuori, era di cinquanta cubiti. Ed ecco, davanti al Tempio vi era uno spazio di cento cubiti.