Ezekiel 44:22

“Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, &c.] Who has been not only another man’s, but at her own will, and done her own pleasure, and been her own mistress, and so not easily brought into subjection, and to behave as becoming her station: or her that is put away; or, “thrust forth”f810; out of doors; whose husband has given her a bill of divorce; since she may be suspected of having done some ill thing: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel; virgins, and not of the families of unconverted persons, who have been brought up in an irreligious way, but of godly families, and who have had a religious education: or a widow that had a priest before: and so used to…”

“Regulations as to the priests’ services. The garments of the priests are defined and various rules prescribed in the Law are repeated with some additions in order to denote additional care to avoid uncleanness. Ezekiel 44:18 The material of which the four vestments of the ordinary priest were made was “linen,” or, more accurately, “byssus,” the cotton stuff of Egypt. The two special qualities of the byssus - white and shining - are characteristic, and on them part of the symbolic meaning depended. Compare Revelation 19:8. Ezekiel 44:19 They shall not sanctify the people - They shall not touch the people with their holy garments. The word “sanctify” is used because the effect of touching was…”

“Neither: This was prohibited only to the high priest under the law; but is here extended to all the priests, perhaps to intimate the superior sanctity of the times to which it refers. a widow: Lev 21:7, Lev 21:13, Lev 21:14; Ti1 3:2, Ti1 3:4, Ti1 3:5, Ti1 3:11, Ti1 3:12; Tit 1:6 put away: Heb. thrust forth, Deu 24:1-4 that had a priest before: Heb. from a priest Ezekiel 44:23”