Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
Open to me the gates of righteousness - (Isaiah 26:2.) "The gates" are those of the temple, or of Jerusalem, the holy city, just restored with the walls and gates, (Nehemiah 3:1-32; Nehemiah 8:1-18.) The type of the millennial Jerusalem, whose walls are salvation, and whose gates are praise (Isaiah 60:10; Isaiah 60:18); and again the type of the heavenly Jerusalem's gates of pearl and wall of jasper (Revelation 21:10-13; Revelation 21:18; Revelation 21:21). If the first feast of tabernacles under Joshua and Zerubbabel (535 BC) be the occasion when this psalm was sung, then the gates referred to will be those of the provisional sanctuary or tabernacle which was PERHAPS raised before the foundations of the temple was laid in connection with the altar on the site of the old sanctuary (Ezra 3:1-4), but refer rather to the second, when the temple doors were set up (Nehemiah 7:1; Nehemiah 8:14-18). "Righteousness" is connected with them on the ground of the justification or acceptance of Israel through the coming Antitype of the sacrifices offered on the great day of atonement, the tenth of the seventh month, five days before the feast of tabernacles.