EZEKIEL 2:1 TO EZEKIEL 3:15. THE CALL. Ezekiel 2:1. The awful silence
is broken by a voice from the Almighty upon His throne, bidding the
prostrate prophet rise and accept his commission for service; for it
is a work and not an inactive prostration that God and the world need.
Into the phrase son of... [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL 2:8 TO EZEKIEL 3:15. His inspiration is suggestively described
by the symbolical swallowing of a book-roll. In Jer. (Jeremiah 1:9) it
is more immediately conceived as due to the touch of the Divine Hand
upon the prophet's lips: but by the publication of Dt. thirty years
before (621 B.C.) the... [ Continue Reading ]