NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL (p. 1104), | Bor the Gawontear order and place of the Prophets, see Ap. 1 and p. 1208. For the Chnaxotoatcat order of the Prophets, ee Ap. 77. For the Intor-relation of the Prophetical Books, se Ap. 78. For the Formule of Prophetio utterances, see AP. 82. For the Cnrovovooicat order of Ezskiel’s prophecy, 800 below For the References to tho Pentatouch in the Prophetical Books, soe Ap. 82. ‘Yer th Plan of Ezekiat' temple, ‘The Canonical order of Bask Later uttorances and Visions are recorded in thoir logical connect istorioal nequen latter is noted, so that we may mako no mistake. When thie fast is chsorved, and tho records discriminated, tho meaning be” comes perfectly clear. Sea the tablo below. ‘They may be sot out as follows — ‘THE DATED YEARS IN EZEKIEL. ‘These are thirteen in number, and cover a poriod of twenty-one years (« period of three sevens): vis. from 484-8 19 85-2 me. ‘Arranged chronologically, the sevnth stands in tho contro, with alx on either aide, Reckoning the thres in the 11th year at ono your, and the threo in the 12th year a€ one year, wo havo nine iz. tho 6th, 6th, 7th, Bth, 10h, 41th, and 124h (eeven) nnd then, after a bread of thirteen years, ‘the 20th and With, | ‘Year of the | i Gaptivity of Month Chapter, | me. Sebatnein. | | oa | Gh Tamme July) bina | a {| BR | aR tetas oul) hie oe Au those pro |] bth | thle opt) 82 ts Puosies wore || ath | Stn Ab (Ang) fo | te ered botre'|| dem | 1ouu Tebeth (Fan) Ere 0 theaitofse: || souk | ton ‘Tebath Gan) = 3 roralon. Hab | “Yat Abboe Nisan capniys Ba uh | ora Sivan Tune) ant sia | Those prophe- (| Seth | 1th Adar Garey) is my cies were tt: {] 3th | 19th Adar (March)? wih | gb | an terea"at and J] ath | om Tabeth Glan) ee iter the fait }| ath | “ise Abibyor'isaa (Apsiy | 10h wr | ass oe Teruatera, (| ith | dt AbIborNiewn (pei | “Ist 1 | (apa) ‘The 60th year of 1.1, eannst be in mccession to the 27th year of ch, 29.17-21, Becuuso the visions of cha. ‘and 10 had alveady been soen, and the one Tecorded in ch, 10 Ip said to havo been similar to that alveady soon neh. 1. Moreover, ii be in auccession to the 21th year, why is it brought into the very beginning of the book without any réason being assigned, or hint given? ‘The 80th year of 1. 1esunot have wnsthing to do with Bzokial's ago, or with the commencement of his orvico ag a priest; for this is to misread Nom. 42, which states that ail thet enter into the koe, to 40 the ‘Work in the tabernacle”, wore taken after the end of the 29th year, "from thirty years old and upward, evan. atil ARy years" Moreover, this thirty Yours’ Tule was abrogated by Divine direction to David in ? Chron. 23, {eat (ep. 2 Chron, 81, 17) and changed to "twenty years old. and upward”, ‘The 30th your cannot be fitted into any sequence of dates commencing with the fifth year of Tehoinchin’s captivity (1.2) whieh, i 98,21 and 40-1, he speaks of as “our captivity” Te must thereforo bo a crose-date vo some wanamed ferminus a quo, thirty years before the 5th year of the captivity: This fixes tas being that opoch-making year 818 2.c., which was the year of Josiah's great Pastover, an oftho finding the Book of the Law in the 18th year of King Josiah, - Fyom O19 2.c ta 484 mc ig exactly twenty-nine complete years: Bo also reckons the learned Prideatx (Connection, oli, p71, MeCacil's ed, 1845) 4 Xo month ia namod but by comparing 00,2, i must the Tat month, 2 No month is named but it waa probably the same ag in © 1106AAcG (p. 1106) 4st Ma » | THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET “EZEKIEL, Now it came to pass in the "thirtieth year, month, as 3 was among the " captives by the he four greater proves, Ezekiel and. Daniel fiver of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, | "ho, prophesied in Babylonin) aro compounded with | iver of" Chebar, thas tener ate Uap acty); while nla ane voneriah wo pee- ‘2 tn the "ith day of the month, which was | Prgsad sn the and) aro compranded with “Ja. | the “fifth year of king * Jehoiachin’s captivity, | pefore the destruction ot the ety and temple (3; 88.2% 83 The word of *the LORD came °expressly |; Kings 24, 14), He dwelt in his own house (@ 1. Gp. unto "Ezekiel "the priest, the son of Buai, in| ier, rs) se war masried; and hie wil died fa tho the land of the Chaldeans by the river 'Chebar; | ysar wien the sage of Teresa begnn. | and °the hand of *the LORD ° was there upon (Bit. 11-12. 28 (A, p, 1108). THE DESOLATION, Uatternation) 4 And I looked, and, “behold, a °whirlwind | A) A 1.1—8. 22, First Vision (by Cheba). came "out of the north, @ great clord, and a Bj int a, Signe [fire *intolaing itself, and a brightness was} | 4 )5,1~11.2«, Second Vision (at Jerusalem). about it, and out of the midst thereof as the pyc Signs, colour of “amber, “out of the midst of the fre. |4_1_3. 97a, above), PIRSD VISION(AT CHEBAR) 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the like- (stoned AUternation.) | ness of “four living creatures. And this was | A/C | 1.2-28-. Tho Cherabim E [iy 2. Raised by the Spirit, 'F [3.380 Mission of Ezekiel, © 8, 10-28". The Cherabim 'D'8.3, Proatration of Hzekiel. | 8. 2¢-. Raised by the Spirit, | FY 3.-acz, Mission of Buckie, | their appearances they had the lkeness of a | DIL. 26, Prostration of Brokie @ And every one had four faces, and every lone had four wings, 7 And their feet were “straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's| foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. 2. t:28- Cebowo Te CHERUBINN (vURST 3 And they had the “hands of a man under| WIStON}iniotersin and Alteration) thelr wings oa their four sidew; and they fout |C | | 2. Vision of Goa had their faces and thelr wings. bis [em at ‘Their wings were joined one to ancther;| i 2. "The living erentures they turned not when’ they went; they went 3) a a, Bho Armament by] 25-26-. Tho living creatures. every one straight forward, Glory of Jehovah, 10 As for the likeness of their “faces, they Co Ara ticpe oet er, the| Sloe ghe demdnC flow th neh te atthe fot ad Bia erage cea {pe sand so the face of an ox on the left side; they four | “méseen the also had the face of an eagle. | HREM «cea Band are always of late always ofthe month, ~ | oof the wool (Le ty 8.15 20.15 2415 98,05 28.1) 80.205 91.1; 92.1; 40.1). captives: Heb. captivity. ‘Pat by Big. Betonymy (of Adjunct) Ap.6, for | Seaptives™ ‘as transite, Cp. 18 | Chebar, Now Khabour.” Probably the same ss Cheber or Habor (2'Kings 175; 18.11.) Chron, 5.2), falling into the Euphrates about forty-five miles north of Babylon, ‘On tho Inscription tia called nar Kabari -gront river, of “Grand Canal” cut between the Tigris and the Enphrater In oh, 3.15 it ig not the same" Chebae” aa in 1-', but the Chebar to which Baokicl was sont ("gy get thee", 2)” The “ Chebar'" of 1.1 was where he dwelt, that of 8, 19 where he was sent, feom, Gon. of Origin of Efficient Cana, Ap.17.2.- God. Heb Elohim. Ap-4 1. @ fh your. Cp.2Kings 24.12.15. Jeholachin. Called also Jeooniah, and Coniah. Cp. 2 Kings 24. 17-20; 25 2 the LORD. Heb, Jehovah Ap. 4. Ti, expreely—invery deed, orip reality. Wz0kiel. See tho Title. ‘the prieat: and caliod, as Jeremiah was, to the office of prophetiaa Well. the hand. Fig. Anthropopathela. Ap. 6. “was-became. Cp Eliinh (Kings 18. £9) Elisha (3 Kings 8.16); Daael (Dan. 10.10.18); and Jolin (Rev. 1, 7) A behold, Fig. asterismon Ap.6.' whirlwind. Heh reach. Spleity but fb eamo tobe xendored “atorm or whirlwind” Note the three symbolgof Schovah'sgiory, Storm, Cloud. ana Fire. Cp. Neh Ls. Wow 4. ‘Out of tho north, Seo notaon Pa Bus, and Tae 113, infolding itself taking hoid of steel’ RLV. marg, "flashing continually”. Homan and finite language ‘unable to fad words to express infinite realities,” Tt may mean spontancous ignition: i.0, without the ‘plication of external fire, Gp. Bx. 0.04. colour, Heb, neyo". Put by Fig 3etonyimy (of Adjuncty Ap. | forcoloar. amber‘ or, glowing metal, — outof:or,in. |B fourliving creatures. ‘Those are ‘ine Cherubims"s See Ap di, Tha soa of Rev. 4.t., ‘Peatraighs ie. unjointed. The living creatures id not move hy walking -@ hamda, “Hob, toxt reads “hand”, Some codices, with two early printed ‘ditions and Heb toxt magg., read *hands” (pl), followed ty A.V. and HV. ‘The sing is to bo preferred, and Sao rendered in 10,7, "Why not here? "16 facen Seo Ap. &l. man, Heb. "add. Ap. 14.1. 11064st Ha (p. 1106) lau. Ti Thus were their faces: and their wings 13°As for the likeness of the living creatures, ‘and like the appearance of “lamps: it went up | and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire * went forth lightning. 14 And the “living creatures *ran and returned ‘as the appearance of a flash of lightning. 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, °be- hold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 16° The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: ana thes appear- ance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel, 17 When they went, they went upon their four | sides: and they °turned not when they went. 18 As for their rings, they were so “high that | they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. ‘19 And when ° the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when °the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the | wheels were lifted up. 20 Whithersoever the * spirit was to go, they went, thither was their ® spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of "the living creature was in the wheels, 21 When those went, these went; and when | those stood, *hese stood ; and when those were |lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of *the living creature was in the wheels. 22 And the likeness of the “firmament upon colour of the terrible crystal, *stretched forth over their heads “above. 23 And under the “firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the othe every one had two, which covered an this side, | ‘and every one had'two, which covered on that side, their bodies. ‘24’And when they went, I heard the “noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, ‘as the “voice of °THE ALMIGHTY, the "voice of| ech, as the noise of an host: when they a, they let down their wings, 25 And there was a voice from the * firma- ‘ment that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. '26 And above the # firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as | the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a °man above upon it, 27 And I saw as the colour of ‘amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from ‘the appearance of his loins even upward, and from ‘the appearance of his loins even down ward, I saw as it were the appearance of fice, and it had brightness round about. EZEKIEL. ‘their appearance was like burning coals of fire, | the heads of the living creature was as the, 2.2. 11 stretched upward divided or eprond out from wore airetohed upards tre wings of very see a pine eh Ty “Uy tne wore jomedonstoancther, and two covered | 28 lampsathe lamp vas ing Shee bodes PRS NeeBae ae bat. pent every one straight forward: |, 44 tan ant seleSed or opt rnping and stam. wither the “spirit wa to go, ey went amd |" he Heh ent hy Haro Mendy ay. 8 Tey tamed no hen they Sent hol i rm eit dition, Sopt, Spr, and Vale. read " And the” ‘The TULL edition of the A'V. rend! In tho sense of subiimity.. 19 the living creatures =the living ones. Cp. 00-33, "aa firmament expose, asin Gan, | stretched forth =apreed ont. 123 straight “voice”, as in the next clause=any apeceh not mentioned til ©.2¥ and. yeddim. Ap. 14.1, Gp. Dan. 1. inthe cloud. Ref, to Pent, (Gen. 9, Ta Ntep. Her 43,10, the glory, te. GP. 3.1, 48;'8. 4; 8,3 10.4, 2% 195 sheriny death! dt. Yfeil tipon my faco. “Bof.to Pent, (Num, 14.5; 16, si. pe 2.1 Ho said. Soo 1. (0.30. Bon ofman-son of Adam. Heb, be'@dam, Ap. MT. acd. of Ezekiel (exactly one Iondred” times) by ishovah, always without the Article. “in NT. used bby Christ (of Himself elgnty-sin times in A.V. (eighty. tires times in.'F.V., omitting Matt, 18-11) 20, 4 Like 8, te, Used Uy others of Christ twice John 12.34), making the A.V, total eighty-oight, and the RLY, total eighty-five. Alwaye with the Article in, NIT! ‘Seo notes on Ps. 84, Mult, 8.20, and Rov. 14.14, Without the Article it denotes a homan being, a natural Aescendant of Adam. Tm Beekiel itis used 19 contrast ‘with the celestial living oreatares (ch. 1). With the “Artic (as used of Christ) it denotes" the gocond Man", ‘the Inst asa", taking the place, dispensationaliy, which “the frst man” fed forleked, and ameceeding, therefore, to the ‘universal dominion over the earth ‘whieh bed been committed to Adata (Gan, 1.2%, Pa 8 62), “Inthe N:P, outside the Four Gospels it is used | only in Acte7. 56." Heb. 2 Rov. 119; tte. “And, be- ‘de Euskiol eis godin OT oly of Daniel (Dan, #13), ‘stand, &e. Cp. Dan. 10.1% Hew, Lis Reminding tus that’ he wo not a false prophet or selé-eaied and ent, Such spake “ext of their own heart” (18.3). Gp dor Bite @ tho spirit entered... Ho spake, Entered with the word.” Cp. Gen. 1-39, The Divine sammone i act ‘companied by Divine preparation. Op. .24. Rev. 1.17 ‘epinit, “Heb. zach, Ape 8 Theard. This is over the Divine qualification, J.e. He Who was enthroned 28 As the appearance of “the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appear- ance of the brightness round about. "This was the appearance of the likeness of. “the glory of *the LORD. And when T saw if,°T fell upon my face, and Theard a * voice of One That spake. And °He said unto me, °“Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thy." 2.And °the *spitit entered into me when He spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that “Theara Him ‘That spake unto me, oF