Let us own ourselves for ever indebted to the mediation of Christ, for the blessed intercourse between God and man; and a true believer will say, I am never less alone than when thus alone. When the Lord opened Ezekiel's mouth, he was to deliver his message boldly, to place life and death, the blessing and the curse, before the people, and leave them to their choice.
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Ezekiel 3:22-27
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 3:1-27EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe People's Contumacy Predicted. (b. c. 595.)THE PEOPLE'S CONTUMACY PREDICTED. (B. C. 595.) After all this large and magnificent discovery which God had made of himself to the prophet, and the full instructions he had given him how to deal with those to whom he se…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 3:22-24On the plain and in the house. The prophet is sent first into the plain and then into his house. In both cases he follows Divine leadings. In both he is separated from his friends and neighbours. But there are certain d…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 3:22And the hand of the Lord was there upon me, etc. There is obviously an interval between the fact thus stated and the close of the message borne in on the prophet's soul. Psychologically, it seems probable that the effec…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 3:22-27The silenced prophet, a calamity. The apparent success of wickedness is a seed of retribution. The people do not wish to hear, therefore their ears shall be hardened. They gnash their teeth on God's prophet, therefore G…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 3:24-27The temporary suspension of the active ministry of the prophet. "Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet," etc. Seclusion and silence were enjoined upon Ezekiel for a time. Our text teaches that the tem…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 3:24Go, shut thyself within thy heroin, etc. The command implied that he was to cease for a time from all public ministrations. There was a time to keep silence, as well as a time to speak (Ecclesiastes 3:7), and for the im…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 3:25A prophet stricken dumb. This is something abnormal, almost monstrous. A prophet is a speaker by calling. His mission is to use his voice. Something is strangely amiss if he is to be driven to silence. The occurrence, t…Joseph S. Exell and contributors