Ezekiel — Chapter 45
The sacred portion (sanctificatio) of land reserved for God, the priests, and the Levites; the portion for the prince; ordinances for just weights and measures. Lapide reads the land division as an image of the proper ordering of society — spiritual authority (the sanctuary), pastoral ministry (priests), temporal authority (the prince), and the people, each with proper boundaries.
Verse 9
'Haec dicit Dominus Deus: Sufficiat vobis, principes Israel' — let it be enough for you, princes of Israel: Lapide delivers a direct sermon to temporal rulers on the injustice of appropriating what belongs to the Church or the poor. He cites Ambrose's rebuke of Theodosius and Thomas Aquinas's De Regimine Principum.
Verse 21
In the first month, on the fourteenth day: the Passover prescribed for the prince. Lapide reads the Temple's Passover regulations as types of the Church's celebration of Easter (Pascha) — the fourteenth of Nisan becomes the great Paschal mystery celebrated in the Mass, which is simultaneously memorial, representation, and application of Christ's sacrifice.