When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’
Here are more exceedingly great and precious promises made of the happy state of the Jews after their return to their own land; but they have a further reference to the kingdom of the Messiah and the glories of gospel-times. I.
Commenting on Ezekiel 37:15-28
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying,.... The children of Israel and Judah in captivity, of which people Ezekiel was and to whom he was sent as a prophet; who seeing him take two sticks, and write on them, and then join them together, would naturally put such a question to him: wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these?
God does not explain the symbolical prophecy until the Jews have been stimulated by the type to consult the prophet.