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<p align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET
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<p align="center">CHAPTER 2
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<a id="Chapter2"></a><p><a onclick="return mV('Eze',2,'1-10');">Eze 2:1-10</a>. EZEKIEL'S COMMISSION. <p><b>1. Son of man</b>—often applied to Ezekiel; once only to Daniel (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,17);">Dan 8:17</a>), and not to any other prophet. The phrase was no doubt taken from Chaldean usage during the sojourn of Daniel and Ezekiel in Chaldea. But the spirit who sanctioned the words of the prophet implied by it the <i>lowliness and frailty</i> of the prophet as man "lower than the angels," though now admitted to the vision of angels and of God Himself, "lest he should be exalted through the abundance of the revelations" (<a onclick="return mV('2Cr',12,7);">2Cr 12:7</a>). He is appropriately so called as being type of the divine "Son of man" here revealed as "man" (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Eze/Eze001.html#Eze1_26">Eze 1:26</a>). That title, as applied to Messiah, implies at once His <i>lowliness</i> and His <i>exaltation,</i> in His manifestations as <i>the Representative man,</i> at His first and second comings respectively (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',8,'4-8');">Psa 8:4-8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',16,13);">Mat 16:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',20,18);">20:18</a>; and on the other hand, <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,13,14);">Dan 7:13-14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',26,64);">Mat 26:64</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',5,27);">Jhn 5:27</a>).
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<p id="Eze2_2"><b>2. spirit entered...when he spake</b>—The divine word is ever accompanied by the Spirit (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',1,2,3);">Gen 1:2-3</a>).
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<br><br><b>set...upon...feet</b>—He had been "upon his face" (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',1,28);">Eze 1:28</a>). Humiliation on our part is followed by exaltation on God's part (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',3,23,24);">Eze 3:23-24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',22,29);">Job 22:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jam',4,6);">Jam 4:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Pe',5,5);">1Pe 5:5</a>). "On the feet" was the fitting attitude when he was called on to walk and work for God (<a onclick="return mV('Eph',5,8);">Eph 5:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eph',6,15);">6:15</a>).
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<br><br><b>that I heard</b>—rather, "<i>then</i> I heard."
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<p id="Eze2_3"><b>3. nation</b>—rather, "nations"; the word usually applied to the <i>heathen</i> or <i>Gentiles;</i> here to the Jews, as being altogether <i>heathenized</i> with idolatries. So in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',1,10);">Isa 1:10</a>, they are named "Sodom" and "Gomorrah." They were now become "Lo-ammi," not the <i>people</i> of God (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',1,9);">Hsa 1:9</a>).
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<p id="Eze2_4"><b>4. impudent</b>—literally, "hard-faced" (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',3,7,9);">Eze 3:7, 9</a>).
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<br><br><b>children</b>—resumptive of "they" (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',2,3);">Eze 2:3</a>); the "children" walk in their "fathers'" steps.
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<br><br><b>I...send thee</b>—God opposes His command to all obstacles. Duties are ours; events are God's.
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<br><br><b>Thus saith the Lord God</b>—God opposes His name to the obstinacy of the people.
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<p id="Eze2_5"><b>5. forbear</b>—namely, to hear.
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<br><br><b>yet shall know</b>—Even if they will not hear, at least they will not have ignorance to plead as the cause of their perversity (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',33,33);">Eze 33:33</a>).
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<p id="Eze2_6"><b>6. briers</b>—not as the <i>Margin</i> and GESENIUS, "rebels," which would not correspond so well to "thorns." The <i>Hebrew</i> is from a root meaning "to sting" as <i>nettles</i> do. The wicked are often so called (<a onclick="return mV('2Sa',23,6);">2Sa 23:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Sgs',2,2);">Sgs 2:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',9,18);">Isa 9:18</a>).
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<br><br><b>scorpions</b>—a reptile about six inches long with a deadly sting at the end of the tail.
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<br><br><b>be not afraid</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Luk',12,4);">Luk 12:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Pe',3,14);">1Pe 3:14</a>).
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<p id="Eze2_7"><b>7. most rebellious</b>—literally, "rebellion" itself: its very essence.
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<p id="Eze2_8"><b>8. eat</b>— (See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer015.html#Jer15_16">Jer 15:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',10,9,10);">Rev 10:9-10</a>). The idea is to possess himself fully of the message and digest it in the mind; not literal <i>eating,</i> but such an <i>appropriation</i> of its unsavory contents that they should become, as it were, part of himself, so as to impart them the more vividly to his hearers.
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<p id="Eze2_9"><b>9. roll</b>—the form in which ancient books were made.
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<p id="Eze2_10"><b>10. within and without</b>—on the face and the back. Usually the parchment was written only on its <i>inside</i> when rolled up; but so full was God's message of impending woes that it was written also on the back.
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