Ezekiel 47:1
the door: Eze 41:2, Eze 41:23-26 waters issued: Solomon's temple and the second temple were doubtless well supplied with water, probably conveyed there by means of pipes; but these waters flowed from the temple, not as a common sewer, but as a fertilizing river. A fountain producing abundance of water was not in the temple, and could not be there on the top of such a hill; and consequently these waters, as well as those spoken of by Joel and Zechariah, must be understood figuratively and typically. These waters doubtless were an emblem of the "gospel preached with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;" and their gradual rise beautifully represents it progress, from small beginnings to an immensely large increase; and the latter part of the representation may relate to the times when it shall fill the earth, and produce the most extensive and important effects on the state of making in every nation. Psa 46:4, Isa 30:25, Isa 55:1, Jer 2:13, Joe 3:18, Zec 13:1, Zec 14:8, Joh 7:37-39, Rev 22:1, Rev 22:17 from under the threshold: Eze 47:12, Isa 2:3 Reciprocal: Jos 2:5 - of shutting 2Ki 5:12 - better 2Ki 5:14 - went he down Psa 110:2 - out Isa 35:6 - for Isa 41:18 - General Isa 51:5 - my salvation Eze 40:6 - threshold Mic 5:7 - as a dew Zec 14:4 - half of the Mat 13:32 - the least Luk 13:19 - and it Joh 4:10 - living Joh 7:38 - out Rev 22:2 - the midst