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Ezechiele 44:11

Listen to Ezechiele 44:11
11 E saranno sol ministri nel mio santuario, costituiti alla guardia delle porte della casa, e facendo i servigi della casa; essi scanneranno gli olocausti, e i sacrificii al popolo, e saranno in piè davanti a lui, per servirgli.

Ezechiele 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.

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Ezechiele 44:11 In-Context

9 Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Niun figliuolo di straniere, incirconciso di cuore, e incirconciso di carne, d’infra tutti i figliuoli degli stranieri, che sono nel mezzo de’ figliuoli d’Israele, entrerà nel mio santuario.
10 Ma i sacerdoti Leviti, che si sono allontanati da me, quando Israele si è sviato, e che si sono sviati da me, dietro a’ loro idoli, porteranno la loro iniquità.
11 E saranno sol ministri nel mio santuario, costituiti alla guardia delle porte della casa, e facendo i servigi della casa; essi scanneranno gli olocausti, e i sacrificii al popolo, e saranno in piè davanti a lui, per servirgli.
12 Perciocchè han loro servito davanti ai loro idoli, e sono stati alla casa d’Israele per intoppo d’iniquità; perciò, io ho alzata la mia mano contro a loro, dice il Signore Iddio, che porteranno la loro iniquità.
13 E non si accosteranno più a me, per esercitarmi il sacerdozio, nè per accostarsi ad alcuna delle mie cose sante, cioè alle mie cose santissime; anzi porteranno la loro ignominia, e la pena delle abbominazioni che hanno commesse;
The Giovanni Diodati Bible is in the public domain.

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