Ezekiel 3:25

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Son of man: see Ezekiel 2:1. It is not said who shall do this, therefore interpreters guess variously at it. Some say it is figurative, noting the malice of the Jews, who would not suffer him quietly to converse with them, their malice was like bonds. Others understand the words as they sound, and refer,

1. To angels, as if they bound him.

2. To his friends and domestics, who would take his intenseness and earnestness in continued, retired thoughtfulness to be madness; so prophets were mistaken and misreported, 2Ki 9 Mr 3:21. To the ruder and more violent of the Jews, who on all occasions were ready thus to confine their prophets, when they foretold unwelcome tidings, and to stir up their governors hereto, as 1 Kings 22:27 Jeremiah 32:2, Jeremiah 37:15 38:6,7. It is not improbable that the rabble should incense the aicuagotarcai, presidents of the captivity, to do this. Put bands upon thee; signifying the bonds and chains of their future captivity who were yet at Jerusalem. Shall bind thee with them: this I suppose denotes the severity with which the conqueror would treat them, he would bind their bonds fast, close, and this will be pain and grief to the bounden. Thou shalt not go out among them; a Hebraism, thou shalt be denied a free converse.