“Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
Perhaps Ezekiel reflected with so much pleasure upon the vision he had had of the glory of God that often, since it went up from him, he was wishing it might come down to him again, and, having seen it once and a second time, he was willing to hope he might be a third time so favoured; but we do not find that he...
Commenting on Ezekiel 12:1-16
Say, I am your sign,.... Which represents you, and shows what will befall you: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them; as he had carried out his stuff, and had removed it from one place to another, so they should be carried away out of their own land into a foreign country, as follows: they shall remove, and go into captivity; the Babylonish captivity.
What doest thou?--They ask not in a docile spirit, but making a jest of his proceedings.