The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And the Spirit, etc. It scarcely admits of question (though the Hebrew has no article, and so far Luther's Version, "Ich ward wieder erquickt," is tenable) that the word is used in the same sense as in Ezekiel 1:20, Ezekiel 1:21 (comp.

Ezekiel 3:24). The Spirit which moved the "living creatures" and the "wheels" in the mysterious symbol was now in him. Ezekiel finds in that fact the ground of his prophetic inspiration (comp. Numbers 24:2; 11:29; 1 Samuel 10:6, 1 Samuel 10:10; Isaiah 11:2, etc.

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