You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.
This relates to the altar in this mystical temple, and that is mystical too; for Christ is our altar. The Jews, after their return out of captivity, had an altar long before they had a temple, Ezr 3:3. But this was an altar in the temple. Now here we have, I. The measures of the altar, Eze 43:13.
Commenting on Ezekiel 43:13-27
And thou shalt offer them before the Lord,.... Upon the altar of burnt offering, which stood before the house or temple where Jehovah dwelt, Eze 40:47, and the priests shall cast salt upon them; which was to be used in all sacrifices under the law, Lev 2:13, this may denote the savoury doctrines and lives of the ministers of the Gospel, who thereby recommend the...
Eze 43:18-27 Eze 43:18. And he said to me, Son of man, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, These are the statutes of the altar in the day when it is erected, to offer burnt-offerings upon it, and to sprinkle blood thereon. Eze 43:19.
Commenting on Ezekiel 43:18-27