THE BURNING OF THE CITY. But the guilty city must be destroyed as well
as the people: so the awful carnage is followed by a no less awful
conflagration prophetic of the fire, kindled later by Babylonian
hands, which reduced the city to ashes (2 Kings 25:9). But this fire
was kindled by supernatural... [ Continue Reading ]
This splendid passage is followed by a description of the Divine
chariot (Ezekiel 10:9) which does little more than duplicate the
description in Ezekiel 1:15, and which, to a modern taste, seems of
the nature of an irrelevance and anticlimax. The point of the
repetition, however, is suggested by Eze... [ Continue Reading ]