Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
Directions are here given for the dividing of the land after their return to it; and, God having warranted them to do it, would be an act of faith, and not of folly, thus to divide it before they had it.
Commenting on Ezekiel 45:1-8
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary,.... Or temple, the house before described in the preceding chapters: five hundred in length, and five hundred in breadth, square round about: that is, five hundred reeds square, as is manifest from Eze 42:16, and this denotes the largeness, perfection, and stability of the church of Christ, which the sanctuary was a type of: and fifty cubits...
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary - See the plan, A.