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4258 NOTES ON EZEKIEL.
third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour;
a meat-offering continually by a perpetual ordinance
unto Jehovah. Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and
the meat-offering, and the oil, every morning [for] a
continual burnt-offering.” (Yers. 13-15.) The propriety
of this again seems most apparent. It was the day
when the sun of Israel should go no more down. Of old
an evening lamb was in every way seasonable, and full
of comfort for the people to know when awakened to the
truth that God had provided for that long long night
during which they had slept alas ! in their forgetfulness
of Him who had died for that nation. But now that
they are in the light of His day the evening lamb dis­
appears, while every morning it abides as a continual
burnt-offering.
Next we have care taken that the prince should not
overstep his due limits, in case of a gift to his servants,
so as to preserve the rights of his sons intact, as well as
of every Israelite. “ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah : If
the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheri­
tance thereof shall be his sons’; it [shall be] their pos­
session by inheritance. But if he give a gift of his
inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his
to the year of liberty, when it shall return to the prince:
but his inheritance shall only be for his sons. More­
over the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance
by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession;
he shall give to his sons inheritance out of his own
possession: that not one of my people be deprived
of his possession.” (Yers. 16-18.) Truly judgment
shall return to righteousness in that day. The jubilee
is then observed in all its force.