Ezekiel 4:1
CONTENTS In this Chapter the Prophet is engaged to instruct the people; and which he doth under the similitude of a siege, to show the state of their captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS In this Chapter the Prophet is engaged to instruct the people; and which he doth under the similitude of a siege, to show the state of their captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is somewhat very striking in the ministry of Ezekiel, different from that of other Prophets for the most part. He was not only to deliver God's truths by word of mouth: but also to represent by lively images the signification. Jeremiah wore a yoke of wood, constantly about him, in order to be... [ Continue Reading ]
I cannot but think somewhat more than Ezekiel, as a servant, and the captivity of the people in Babylon, was intended by this type. At least it is hardly possible to overlook Christ, the one and only suited burden-bearer of his people's sins, as here alluded to Jesus, indeed, not only on his side, b... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reader will have a better idea of the coarse and scanty fare of the Prophet, if he understands, that this mixed grain not only made the whole unpleasant, but the allowance was scarcely enough, (and to a poor man confined to lay on his side, still harder) to keep life. A shekel was only about hal... [ Continue Reading ]
Melancholy as this was, when the bread and water were given out by weight and measure, yet infinitely more distressing is it, when the Lord makes a famine, not of the bread that perisheth, but that which endureth to everlasting life. Oh Lord! keep to us the blessed and invaluable privilege of our Sa... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! amidst many very sweet and profitable subjects suggested to our contemplation by the several types in this Chapter, I feel my mind constrained to one or two more immediately striking; and may the Lord direct yours also to the contemplation of the same. Who can overlook the Lord C... [ Continue Reading ]