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This chapter continues and concludes the describing and measuring of this mystical temple, which it is very hard to understand the particular architecture of, and yet more hard to comprehend the mystical meaning of. Here is, I. A description of the chambers that were about the courts, their situation and structure (Eze 42:1-13), and the uses for which they were designed, Eze 42:13,14. II. A survey of the whole compass of ground which was taken up with the house, and the courts belonging to it, Eze 42:15-20.
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The Vision of the Temple (574 BC)
圣殿的异象（主前574年）
¹ 他带我出来，向北走，到了外院；又带我进入圣屋，这圣屋对着分别的空地，又朝北向着那建筑。
² 这圣屋前面长一百肘，门面宽五十肘。
³ 对着内院那二十肘宽的空地，又对着外院的铺石地，在第三层楼上，有楼廊对著楼廊。
⁴ 在圣屋前有一条夹道，宽十肘，长一百肘；房门都向北。
⁵ 上层楼房较窄；因为这些楼廊占去下层和中层一些地方，所以上层比下层、中层都窄。
⁶ 因为它们有三层，却没有柱子像院子的柱子那样；所以上层比下层和中层更加狭窄。
⁷ 那朝外、在圣屋对面的空地，就是外院那一边的围墙，长五十肘。
⁸ 因为靠外院的这圣屋长五十肘；看哪，在圣殿前面是一百肘。
⁹ 在这些圣屋以下，东边有入口，从外院可进入其中。
¹⁰ 这些圣屋在朝东的院墙厚度之内，对着分别的空地，又对着那建筑。
¹¹ 圣屋前面的夹道，与朝北那边的圣屋样式相同；长度、宽度、出口、门道都一样。
¹² 正如朝南的圣屋有门一样，在夹道起头处、在朝东的空地前面也有门，可进入其中。
¹³ 他对我说：朝北和朝南的这些圣屋，就是分别的空地前面的圣屋，都是圣屋；祭司中亲近耶和华的，要在那里吃至圣之物；也当在那里存放至圣之物，就是素祭、赎罪祭和赎愆祭；因为那地方是圣的。
¹⁴ 祭司进去之后，不可从圣所出到外院；他们供职所穿的圣衣要放在那里，因为那是圣衣；他们要穿上别的衣服，才可以到属百姓的那一部分。
先知已经仔细察看了圣殿及其附属建筑，如今又被带到外院，要观察那院中的圣屋。
一、这里对这些圣屋作了描述，（如前面那段一样）因我们不通晓希伯来文和当时的建筑规则，这段描述对我们而言似乎十分复杂难解。我们只能总括地注意：1. 在作为公共敬拜之地的圣殿四围，有私人的房间，这是为要教导我们：在严肃的条例中事奉神，并不能豁免我们尽内室本分的责任。我们不仅要在神殿的院宇中敬拜，还要在到那里之前和之后，进入我们的内室，进入我们的密室，阅读、默想，并「在暗中向我们的父祷告」；神的百姓在与神独处的相交中，已得着了极大的安慰。2. 这些圣屋很多；它们有三层，虽然上层不如下层那样大，却同样适宜退修之用（结42:5,6）。圣屋之所以多，是为要给所有像女先知亚拿那样虔诚的人提供方便，她「不离开圣殿，禁食祈求，昼夜事奉神」（路2:37）。「在我父的家里有许多住处。」在他地上的家中也是如此；众多的人凭信心在他的圣所中得了居所，「却还有空处」。3. 这些圣屋虽然是私人的，却离圣殿很近，可以看见，可以触及；这是为要教导我们，要把公共敬拜置于私下的敬拜之前（「耶和华喜爱锡安的门，胜于雅各一切的住处」，我们也当如此），并将我们私下的敬拜与公共的敬拜联系起来。我们在内室中所行的敬虔之工，当为预备我们在公共场合操练敬虔，并帮助我们在有机会时从中受益。4. 这些圣屋前面有「五码宽的夹道」（结42:4），住在这些圣屋里的人可以在那里相会交谈，可以一同行走、彼此谈论，互相得造就，可以分享各自的知识和经历。因为我们不可把所有的时间都花在圣殿和内室之间，尽管在这两处都可以极有益地度过许多时间。然而人是为群体而造，基督徒是为圣徒的相交而造；我们当凭良心尽那相交的本分，也当享受那相交的特权和喜乐。在第二圣殿作大祭司的约书亚，得着了应许：神必「使他在这些站立的人中间行走」（亚3:7）。
二、这里指定了这些圣屋的用途（结42:13,14）。1. 它们是「为祭司」亲近耶和华之人预备的，好使他们常常就近自己的职分，不至于成为不住任者。因此这些被称为「圣屋」，因为是供那些在圣物中事奉的人、在他们事奉期间使用的。那些为神和人的灵魂从事公共工作的人，需要多在私下装备自己，以胜任那工。传道人当在他们的内室中多用功夫，阅读、默想、祷告，使他们的「长进显明出来」；他们也当为此得着适当的便利。2. 在那里祭司要存放「至圣之物」——就是分给他们那一份祭物；在那里他们要「吃」这些物，他们和他们的家人都要在那里以敬虔的方式吃，因为「地方是圣的」；这样他们就必须在这些祭物之筵与日常饭食之间有所分别。3. 在那里（用途之一）他们要安放他们在祭坛前事奉时所穿、神所指定的圣服——细麻布的以弗得、内袍、腰带和裹头巾。我们读到百姓从被掳归回之后，预备祭司礼服的事（尼7:70,72）。当他们在祭坛前的事奉完毕，就要脱下这些衣服，表明这些衣服的使用只在那段时期内持续；他们「要穿上别的衣服」——就是普通人所穿的衣服——才可以「到属百姓的那一部分」，即去行他们事奉中关乎百姓的那一部分，将律法教导他们，解答他们的询问。他们的圣衣必须「收存」起来，好保持洁净得体，以维护他们事奉的体面。
英文原文
The Vision of the Temple (574 BC)
¹ Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
² Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
³ Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
⁴ And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
⁵ Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
⁶ For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
⁷ And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
⁸ For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
⁹ And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
¹⁰ The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
¹¹ And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
¹² And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
¹³ Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
¹⁴ When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
The prophet has taken a very exact view of the temple and the buildings belonging to it, and is now brought again into the outer court, to observe the chambers that were in that square.
I. Here is a description of these chambers, which (as that which went before) seems to us very perplexed and intricate, through our unacquaintedness with the Hebrew language and the rules of architecture at that time. We shall only observe, in general, 1. That about the temple, which was the place of public worship, there were private chambers, to teach us that our attendance upon God in solemn ordinances will not excuse us from the duties of the closet. We must not only worship in the courts of God's house, but must, both before and after our attendance there, enter into our chambers, enter into our closets, and read and meditate, and pray to our Father in secret; and a great deal of comfort the people of God have found in their communion with God in solitude. 2. That these chambers were many; there were three stories of them, and, though the higher stories were not so large as the lower, yet they served as well for retirement, Eze 42:5,6. There were many, that there might be conveniences for all such devout people as Anna the prophetess, who departed not from the temple night or day, Lu 2:37. In my Father's house are many mansions. In his house on earth there are so; multitudes by faith have taken lodgings in his sanctuary, and yet there is room. 3. That these chambers, though they were private, yet were near the temple, within view of it, within reach of it, to teach us to prefer public worship before private (the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob, and so must we), and to refer our private worship to the public. Our religious performances in our chambers must be to prepare us for the exercises of devotion in public, and to further us in our improvement of them, as our opportunities are. 4. That before these chambers there were walks of five yards broad (Eze 42:4), in which those that had lodgings in these chambers might meet for conversation, might walk and talk together for their mutual edification, might communicate their knowledge and experiences. For we are not to spend all our time between the church and the chamber, though a great deal of time may be spent to very good purpose in both. But man is made for society, and Christians for the communion of saints; and the duties of that communion we must make conscience of, and the privileges and pleasures of that communion we must take the comfort of. It is promised to Joshua, who was high priest in the second temple, that God will give him places to walk in among those that stand by, Zec 3:7.
II. Here is the use of these chambers appointed, Eze 42:13,14. 1. They were for the priests that approach unto the Lord, that they may be always near their business and may not be non-residents. Therefore they are called holy chambers, because they were for use of those that ministered in holy things during their ministration. Those that have public work to do for God and the souls of men have need to be much in private, to fit themselves for it. Ministers should spend much time in their chambers, in reading, meditation, and prayer, that their profiting may appear; and they ought to be provided with conveniences for this purpose. 2. There the priests were to deposit the most holy things, those parts of the offerings which fell to their share; and there they were to eat them, they and their families, in a religious manner, for the place is holy; and thus they must make a difference between those feasts upon the sacrifice and other meals. 3. There (among other uses) they were to lay their vestments, which God had appointed them to wear when they ministered at the altar, their linen ephods, coats, girdles, and bonnets. We read of the providing of priests garments after their return out of captivity, Ne 7:70,72. When they had ended their service at the altar they must lay by those garments, to signify that the use of them should continue only during that dispensation; but they must put on other garments, such as other people wear, when they approached to those things which were for the people, that is, to do that part of their service which related to the people, to teach them the law and to answer their enquiries. Their holy garments must be laid up, that they may be kept clean and decent for the credit of their service.
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The Vision of the Temple (574 BC)
圣殿的异象（公元前574年）
¹⁵ 他量完了内殿，就带我出来，朝着朝东的门量了四围。
¹⁶ 他用丈量的苇杖量东面，量了五百苇，围着量。
¹⁷ 他量北面，量了五百苇，围着量。
¹⁸ 他量南面，量了五百苇。
¹⁹ 他又转到西面，用苇杖量了五百苇。
²⁰ 他量四面，四围有墙，长五百苇，宽五百苇，为要分别圣地与俗地。
我们已跟随着丈量了这座奥秘的圣殿，现在要看一看我们所踏之圣地的界限延伸到何处；那也是在此被量过的，发现所占的范围甚广。请留意：1. 它的尺寸如何。它每方延伸五百苇（结 42:16-19），每苇约合三码半有余，所以每方约达英制一哩；地呈正方，四周合计在四哩以上。这座奥秘圣殿的「郊野」（我们可以如此称呼）如此广阔，预示着福音时代教会的极大扩展——那时万民都要作主的门徒，世上的国都要成为基督的国。神的院内要为涌入的众多外邦人腾出地方，正如所预言的（赛 49:18；60:4）。这在一定程度上已因外邦人归入教会而应验；我们信它也必有更完全的应验——当外邦人的数目添满了，于是以色列全家都要得救之时。2. 它的尺寸为何定得如此之大。这是为要分别——在圣地与俗地之间隔着极大的距离；因此有一道墙环绕，以隔开不洁的人，并将宝贵的与下贱的分别出来。注意，凡俗之事与圣洁之事之间当有分别——神的名与其他的名之间，他的日子与其他的日子之间，他的书与其他的书之间，他所设立的制度与其他的礼仪之间，都当有别；并且在我们的世俗事务与宗教行动之间也当保持距离，使我们在敬拜神时仍带着庄重的停顿。
英文原文
The Vision of the Temple (574 BC)
¹⁵ Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
¹⁶ He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
¹⁷ He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
¹⁸ He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
¹⁹ He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
²⁰ He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
We have attended the measuring of this mystical temple and are now to see how far the holy ground on which we tread extends; and that also is here measured, and found to take in a great compass. Observe, 1. What the dimensions of it were. It extended each way 500 reeds (Eze 42:16-19), each reed above three yards and a half, so that it reached every way about an English measured mile, which, the ground lying square, was above four miles round. Thus large were the suburbs (as I may call them) of this mystical temple, signifying the great extent of the church in gospel-times, when all nations should be discipled and the kingdoms of the world made Christ's kingdoms. Room should be made in God's courts for the numerous forces of the Gentiles that shall flow into them, as was foretold, Isa 49:18,60:4. It is in part fulfilled already in the accession of the Gentiles to the church; and we trust it shall have a more full accomplishment when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in and all Israel shall be saved. 2. Why the dimensions of it were made thus large. It was to make a separation, by putting a very large distance between the sanctuary and the profane place; and therefore there was a wall surrounding it, to keep off those that were unclean and to separate between the precious and the vile. Note, A difference is to be put between common and sacred things, between God's name and other names, between his day and other days, his book and other books, his institutions and other observances; and a distance is to be put between our worldly and religious actions, so as still to go about the worship of God with a solemn pause.
本章继续并完结了对这座奥秘圣殿的描述与量度；要明白其具体的建筑结构已经很难，要领会其奥秘的含义更是难上加难。这里有：一、关于院子周围那些旁屋的描述，包括它们的位置和结构（结42:1-13），以及设计它们的用途（结42:13,14）。二、对圣殿连同其附属院落所占整片地面范围的勘测（结42:15-20）。