Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 8:14
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Ezekiel8:14
14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORDS house, which was towards the north, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Not by real and corporal change of place, but in vision and by representation.
Of the outer Court, or Court of the Women, so called because they were allowed to come into it, as were all the Laity of the Jews; but 'tis more likely, the Gate of the Inner Court, the Court of the Priests, next to the house of God, whither none save Priests might come but in this very great corruption of the state, others were admitted into it which makes this sin the greater.
He enters at first by the North Gate, and so passeth on to what places were next to the Temple on that side.
Contrary to the Law were they come thither, led by their blindest because the vilest, and most impudent superstition, and waiting (exprest by sitting) ready to commit most lewd wickednesses as part of their obscene and beastly Rites.
This is the only part which is specified of their irreligious Religion commemorating with Tears, an infamously lustful, and unclean Whoremonger, or Votary of Venus, snatcht from her by an unhappy wound of a Boar, say some, this weeping implieth all the beastly Rites of that Idol.
A Magician, say some, a handsome young man but notorious for Love of Women, say others; an Adulterer (say some) slain by his brother King of Egypt, and mangled in pieces, his torn Members were thrown into the River, but gathered up by the fond Adulteresses, and Rites of Worship fitted to so lewd an Idol; whose Adulteries, lascivious practises, and immodest gestures these she Priests acted over before the Idol with men of like lewdness, of whom what they received, as rewards of their prostituting themselves, was offered to Venus, by this means Gods Temple was turned into a lewd stews.
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