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Ezekiel 40:21

Western Saints

Jerome

And it had, it says, fifty cubits in length and twenty-five in width, so that eternal rest might be demonstrated after fifty weeks following seven weeks: extending during the day of resurrection to the kingdoms of heaven, in which true rest is found. …

Commentary On Ezekiel 12:40.20-23 ↗

Gregory the Dialogist

And because in the knowledge of the Holy Trinity hearers advance from the word of preaching in love of the same Trinity, this same gate has three chambers on one side and three on the other, because everything that the Creator speaks concerning the Trinity through the New Testament, He also shows from the Old Testament. …

Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 2, Homily 7 ↗