CONTENTS Under the similitude of the image of jealousy, the Prophet in this chapter sets forth the awful state of the people. And in the figure of the idol Tammuz, the deplorable condition to which all orders were reduced b y sin, is described. Ezekiel 8:1 We here enter upon a most interesting Cha... [ Continue Reading ]
I do not presume to say as much, but I venture to believe, that this glorious vision was similar to Ezekiel's former, (Ezekiel 1:26) And was not this the Lord Jesus, the glory-man? Surely there can be no doubt, but that this Almighty Mediator, from the first hour he stood up at the call of Jehovah t... [ Continue Reading ]
There is somewhat particularly striking in this act of the Lord. The putting forth the hand, implies the Spirit of the Lord being upon him, or rather in him: and the lifting him up between the earth and the heaven, to bring him in visions of God to Jerusalem, was meant most probably to show, that th... [ Continue Reading ]
It should seem by what is said in those verses, that the Lord meant his servant the Prophet should be enabled by such facts brought before his eyes, to tell the elders that sat before him, in what justice the Lord's punishments on Israel were founded. How tender, but yet cutting is the Lord's expost... [ Continue Reading ]
What tended to aggravate those crying sins yet more was, that they were committed in the very sanctuary. And they had thrown up a wall to conceal from every eye, and none but his eye who seeth in secret could discover. Alas! when sin is made yet more exceeding sinful, both from the place and persons... [ Continue Reading ]
Oh! what an awful account is here. The Prophet hath discovered now through the Lord's teaching him, by looking in through this hole in the wall, that it is not the common people, not the ignorant, not the unlearned only, that were given to idolatry; but the very elders, the ancients of the house of... [ Continue Reading ]
What are there more views, more of the same like abominations? Yes! here are the women of Israel introduced as well as the men, in their open and daring impiety. The former transgressions were in the chambers of retirement, but these latter are open; they seem lost to all shame; they are at the door... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a picture, which holds forth the most finished representation of all. Here are about five and twenty men, with an uncovered front, got absolutely between the Porch and the Altar; that sacred spot, where the priests, the ministers of the Lord, presented themselves before the Lord, on the days... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! let us pause over the sad view of this Chapter, in the contents of it, for it is most solemn: and consider well, the dreadful representation here given, of the human heart! Could it have been conceived possible, that while a whole nation was reeking under the Lord's chastisements... [ Continue Reading ]