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Ezekiel 33:22

Though the date is inserted here, it is probably to be understood as applicable to the whole chapter, for Ezekiel 33:1 the prophet is commanded to speak publicly to the children of his people. In the evening he felt the hand of the Lord upon him, he fell into an excitation. Thoughts such as those in Ezekiel 33:1 of the new Israel that God would create and of the conditions of belonging to it filled his mind. He was well aware that the city's fall was inevitable, to him it was as good as fallen. And full of the new thoughts of the future he felt himself standing before his fellow exiles with an impulse strong upon him to speak to them of this future in the name of the Lord. In the morning the fugitives arrived with the confirmation of all his past predictions.

untilhe came to me should come: against his coming, Exodus 7:15.

no more dumb i.e. silent, Psalms 39:2; Isaiah 53:7.

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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