Ezechiel — Chapter 44
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Verse 2
S. Ierome expoundeth this of the hardnes of Scripture, which no man vnderstandeth fully but the Sonne of God. Likewise of our B. Ladie a perpetual Virgin; Christ being borne of her kept her virginity without violation, as he entred the sepulcher & the house without opening, & rose from the dead without corruption.
Verse 3
Our B. Ladie a perpetual Virgin also after the birth of Christ; as expoundeth S. Augustin, S. Ambrose, S. Chrysostome, and S. Ierome.
Verse 5
This astonishment and reuerence of the Prophet, and the great attention which he is admonished to haue, import the great mysteries of Christ & his Church, & not only the temple & rites of the old law, which were but figures of the new.
Verse 19
Holy things are ordinarily to be done in holy places; and therfore sacred vestures (by touching whereof men were sanctified, Exod.19. v.37.) must not be vsed out of the temple.