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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. PREDICTIONS BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
A. judgment Predictions Concerning Jerusalem (1-24)
Chapter S 1:1-3:14 The Vision of Glory and the Call of the Prophet
_ 1. The...
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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 D...
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The prophet's inspiration
Being commanded to speak God's words to the people, the prophet is
next assured by a symbol, a book given him to eat, that God's words
shall be given him....
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II. THE PREPARATION FOR SERVICE
2:8-3:15
Following the call to service, God begins a process of education to
prepare this man for the assigned task. Three steps can be
distinguished in this education...
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_SO I OPENED MY MOUTH, AND HE CAUSED ME TO EAT THAT ROLL._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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§ 1. EZEKIEL'S CALL AND CONSECRATION AS A PROPHET (EZEKIEL 1-3)
Date, June-July, 592 b.c.
Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by
means of a vision of God's glory (Ezekie...
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EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’
THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 3
EZEKIEL EATS THE *SCROLL – EZEKIEL 3:1-3
V1 Then the *Lor...
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וָ אֶפְתַּ֖ח אֶת ־פִּ֑י וַ
יַּ֣אֲכִלֵ֔נִי אֵ֖ת הַ מְּגִלָּ֥ה הַ
זֹּֽאת׃...
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EZEKIEL'S PROPHETIC COMMISSION
Ezekiel 2:1; Ezekiel 3:1
THE call of a prophet and the vision of God which sometimes
accompanied it are the two sides of one complex experience. The man
who has truly s...
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This roll he was commanded to eat. The writing on the roll was a roll
of lamentations and mourning and woe. The prophet declared that having
eaten the roll, he found it in his mouth "as honey for swee...
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_Book, in spirit; (Calmet) or in reality, he chewed the volume.
(Haydock)_...
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I beg the Reader to pause again and again, while going through the
very solemn service of Ezekiel's ordination. What an idea doth it
awaken in the mind of its importance. Though the Lord Jesus himself...
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The Lord testifies that Israel is even more hardened than any of the
heathen nations. The people are "impudent and hard-hearted." It needed
that Ezekiel should have his forehead made as hard as adaman...
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SO I OPENED MY MOUTH,.... To take in the roll, and eat it; he was not
disobedient to the heavenly vision; he did all that he could towards
eating it, but was not sufficient of himself; and therefore i...
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_So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll._
Ver. 2. _So I opened my mouth._] Without delays or consults, I obeyed
Christ's command, _et hausi quodammodo donum prophetiae,_ _a_ and
yiel...
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_Son of man, eat that which thou findest_ Chaldee, _that which is
given thee. Eat this roll_ Receive into thy mind and heart, as certain
and important truth, what is written therein: see note on Ezeki...
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DIVINE STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN OPPOSITION...
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1-11 Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his
soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened.
Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, which...
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SO, Heb. _And_; so soon as he had heard he must eat it. _I opened my
mouth_; not to discuss points, but to obey, to show my readiness
indeed, and to do what lay on me to do. HE CAUSED ME TO EAT THAT R...
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Ezekiel 3:2 opened H6605 (H8799) mouth H6310 eat H398 (H8686) scroll
H4039
Jeremiah 25:17; Acts 26:19...
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‘And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this roll
and go, speak to the house of Israel.” So I opened my mouth and he
caused me to eat the roll, and he said to me, “Son of man, cause
yo...
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CONTENTS: Ezekiel's commission, continued. Again filled with the
Spirit. His dumbness.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel.
CONCLUSION: Ministers are God's mouth to the children of men, but must
not undertake...
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Ezekiel 3:3. _The roll was in my mouth as honey._ To taste the good
word of God is pleasant; but it was bitter in the belly with regard to
imprisonment and martyrdom. Revelation 10:9. No matter; the s...
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_He caused me to eat that roll._
THE MYSTIC MIND
1. There are few writers in the Bible who have imprinted the
characteristics of their own mind on their writings more than the
prophet Ezekiel, and th...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 3:1 The command to EAT is now combined with
the commission to GO and SPEAK.
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(2.) CONSCIOUS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMISSION (Chaps. Ezekiel 2:8 to
Ezekiel 3:3)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 2:9. “SENT UNTO ME;” rather, _put
forth unto me_ (as in chap. Ezekiel 8:3). Ezekiel 2:10. “W...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 3:1
EAT THAT THOU FINDEST, etc. The iteration of the command of Ezekiel
2:8 seems to imply, like the words, "be not thou rebellious," in that
verse, some reluctance on the prophet'...
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CHAPTER 2:1-3:11.
CALL TO THE PROPHETICAL OFFICE.
Ezekiel 2:1. _And he said to me, Son of man,_ (Hävernick, after many
leading commentators, both ancient and modern, still lays stress on
this express...
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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat
this scroll, and then go and speak to the house of Israel (Ezekiel
3:1).
In other words, devour it and then go give it forth. You se...
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Acts 26:19; Jeremiah 25:17...