Ezekiel 2:10

And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. IT WAS WRITTEN WITHIN AND WITHOUT - on the face and the back. Usually the parchment was written only on its inside when rolled up; but so full was God's message of impending woes, it was written also on the back. Remarks: (1) When Ezekiel had prostrated himself on his face (), God lifted him and set him on his feet (Ezekiel 2:1). When we abase ourselves, God delights to exalt us. Ezekiel had just seen the Son of Man upon His divine throne: he is now himself honoured with the same title, as being about to be made like to the Son of man in His humiliation, while enduring the contradiction of sinners against Himself first-and...

He adds, _after the volume was unrolled, that he saw it written on each side: _by which words he understands not that any brief command was given to him, but that a length of much time was imposed. For if he had only spoken concerning the roll, the Jews might have contemptuously rejected him after three or four days, as if he had come to an ends” A roll was indeed offered to thee, but now thou hast spoken three or four times, is not this sufficient?” Hence, as the Prophet might meet with neglect, he says, _the roll was written before and behind _He now says, for such was his argument, _that lamentations only were written there _ הגה _, hegeh, _signifies sometimes meditation and speech simply, but here, _because _it is connected with lamentations, there is no doubt that it is to be taken for a mournful strain. At length the particle הי, _hei, _is added in the sense of grieving. On the w

6-10 Those who will do any thing to purpose in the service of God, must not fear men. Wicked men are as briers and thorns; but they are nigh unto cursing, and their end is to be burned. The prophet must be faithful to the souls of those to whom he was sent. All who speak from God to others, must obey his voice. The discoveries of sin, and the warnings of wrath, should be matter of lamentation. And those acquainted with the word of God, will clearly perceive it is filled with woe to impenitent sinners; and that all the precious promises of the gospel are for the repenting, believing servants of the Lord....

Verse Ezekiel 2:10. _IT_ WAS _WRITTEN WITHIN AND WITHOUT_] Contrary to the state of rolls in general, which are written on the _inside_ only. The _Hebrew rolls_ are generally written in this way. There are several of such Hebrew rolls before me, all written on the _inside_ only, consisting of skins of vellum, or parchment, or basil, a sort of half-tanned sheep or goat skin, sewed together, extending to several yards in length. Other Asiatic books were written in the same way. A Sanscrit roll of _sixty_ feet in length, also before me, is written all on the _inside_; and a _Koran_, written in exceedingly small characters, about two inches broad and twelve feet long, and weighing but about half an ounce. But the _roll_ presented to the prophet was written on _both sides_, because the prophecy was long, and to the same effect; that...

EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 2:1 SON OF MAN, etc. It is noticeable that the phrase (_ben adam_)_, _as addressed to a prophet, occurs only in Ezekiel, in whom we find it not less than eighty times, and in Daniel 8:17. As used elsewhere, _e.g._ in Numbers 23:19; Psalms 8:4; Job 25:6; Isaiah 51:12; Isaiah 56:2, and in Ezekiel's use of it, it is p

AND HE SPREAD IT BEFORE ME,.... Unrolled it, that what was written in it might he seen and read; that so, understanding it, he might deliver the contents of it to the people: thus the Gospel, and the mysteries of it, must be explained by Christ to his ministers; and their understandings must be opened before they will be capable of making them known to others: and IT [WAS] WRITTEN WITHIN AND WITHOUT; on the back, of the vellum or parchment as well as inside; and such writings were called "opisthographa"; of this kind was the book John saw Revelation 5:1. It was usual only to write on the inside; but when they had a great deal to write, then they wrote on the backside also d; so that this roll being thus written denotes the largeness and abundance of the prophecies contained in this book; some respecting the Jews, and others the nations of the world. The Targum is,...

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 introduction (Ezekiel 1:1) _ 2. The vision of glory (Ezekiel 1:4) 3. Ezekiel's call and commission (Ezekiel 2:1) 4. The roll eaten and the repeated commission (Ezekiel 2:9; Ezekiel 3:1) Ezekiel 1:1. The introductory words give

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 Divine Hand upon the prophet's lips: but by the publication of Dt. thirty years before (621 B.C.) the book had begun to hold a place in the religion of Israel which it had never held before (p. 90), and it is significant, not to say ominous, that Ezekiel is represented as owing his message and his inspiration to a book. The lamentations, mourning, and woe (Ezekiel 2:10) inscribed in the visionary book do, in point of fact, faithfully describe the gene

WITHIN AND WITHOUT. Contrary to the usual custom (within only), to show the abundance and completeness of his prophecies. Compare Revelation 5:1. LAMENTATIONS. Aramaean and Septuagint read "lamentation "(singular)...

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....