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Ezekiel
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He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” See also: Revelation 10:9-10Ezekiel 3:17-21Ezekiel 2:8-9So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll. See also: Jeremiah 25:17Acts 26:19He said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your belly and your bowels with it.” Then I ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. See also: Jeremiah 15:16Revelation 10:9-10Psalms 19:10He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them. See also: Acts 1:8Matthew 15:24Matthew 10:5-6For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel— See also: Jonah 1:2Isaiah 33:19Ezekiel 3:6not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you. See also: Matthew 12:41-42Jonah 3:5-10Matthew 11:20-24But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted. See also: Luke 10:161 Samuel 8:7Ezekiel 2:4Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. See also: Jeremiah 1:18Acts 7:51-56Exodus 4:15-16I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.” See also: Ezekiel 2:6Jeremiah 1:8Isaiah 50:7Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you. See also: Job 22:22Psalms 119:11Luke 8:15Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.” See also: Ezekiel 2:7Ezekiel 2:5Ezekiel 3:27Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed be the LORD’s glory from his place.” See also: Acts 8:39Ezekiel 8:3Acts 2:2I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. See also: Ezekiel 1:24Ezekiel 10:16-17Ezekiel 10:5So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the LORD’s hand was strong on me. See also: Ezekiel 37:1Jeremiah 20:7-92 Kings 3:15Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv who lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days. See also: Job 2:13Psalms 137:1Ezekiel 1:1At the end of seven days, the LORD’s word came to me, saying, See also: Jeremiah 42:7“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me. See also: Isaiah 52:82 Chronicles 19:10Hebrews 13:17When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand. See also: Ezekiel 33:6James 5:19-20Ezekiel 3:20Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.” See also: Ezekiel 33:91 Timothy 4:16Ezekiel 14:20“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand. See also: Ezekiel 18:24Ezekiel 33:12-13Ezekiel 18:26Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.” See also: 1 Timothy 4:16James 5:20Proverbs 9:9The LORD’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.” See also: Acts 9:6Ezekiel 1:3Ezekiel 37:1Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, the LORD’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face. See also: Ezekiel 1:28Revelation 1:17Acts 7:55Then the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house. See also: Ezekiel 2:2Daniel 10:19Daniel 10:8-10But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them. See also: Ezekiel 4:8Acts 9:16Mark 3:21I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and will not be able to correct them, for they are a rebellious house. See also: Ezekiel 24:27Luke 1:20-22Psalms 51:15But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.” See also: Ezekiel 12:2-3Ezekiel 24:27Ezekiel 3:11
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 3:1
Ver. 1. Eat this book, and go speak to the children of Israel. By this eating of the book, was signified the diligent attention and affection with which we are to receive and embrace the word of God; and to let it as it were, sink into our interior by devout meditation. Ch. --- The revelation came from God. v. 10. W.
↑ 1Ezekiel 3:2
Ver. 2. Book, in spirit; (C.) or in reality, he chewed the volume. H.
↑ 2Ezekiel 3:3
Ver. 3. Mouth. I readily accepted the commission, but soon found the difficulties to which it would expose me. v. 12. Jer. xv. 16. Apoc. x. 10.
↑ 3Ezekiel 3:6
Ver. 6. Unknown. Heb. "heavy." C. --- Prot. "hard." H. --- It is not above thy strength. Deut.
xxx. 12. --- To thee. He insinuates that the Gentiles would obey the apostles. S.
Jer. --- But the time was not yet come. C. --- From this text and Mat. xi. 21. it appears that "the same grace" is accepted by some and rejected by others, as
"more grace is added to the former, which was sufficient before, and by this...is made effectual" through God's mercy. Rom. ix. W. --- Those who reject the first grace, can blame only themselves, if they receive no more. The same grace falling on a heat better prepared by God, like seed on good soil, is more fruitful.
↑ 6Ezekiel 3:7
Ver. 7. Hard. Lit. "rubbed" like a stone, or brass; attritâ. H. --- God's ambassadors (Eph. vi. 20.
C.) must do their utmost. H. --- The success must not puff them up, nor the failure too much depressed them, as all regards God, (Mat. x. 40.) who will know how to make things conduce to his own glory. They must only bewail the blindness of sinners. C. --- The care of them, and not the cure, will be required at their hands. v. 19. H.
↑ 7Ezekiel 3:8
Ver. 8. Harder. If they will not blush, thou shalt not be ashamed to lay their disorders before their eyes, though they be such as ought not to be mentioned, as becomes saints. H. See C. xvi.
and xxii. C.
↑ 8Ezekiel 3:12
Ver. 12. Spirit; wind (Hugo) or angel, took me through the air; (Prado.) or, I went willingly. S.
Jer. --- Commotion, like an earthquake, (Heb. Sept.) occasioned by the motion of the chariot, or the voice of the cherubim. v. 13.
↑ 12Ezekiel 3:14
Ver. 14. Spirit, resolved to rebuke (C.) sinners. Sept. "the spirit of the Lord also lifted me...and I went aloft ( like a meteor; meteoros) by the impulse of my spirit; for the hand of the Lord upon me was strong; and I went loft, to the captivity, and passed through them...conversing in the midst of them." H.
↑ 14Ezekiel 3:15
Ver. 15. The heap of new corn. It was the name of a place; in Hebrew, Telabib, (Ch.) as the Chal.
leaves it (M.) with the three Greek interpreters. C. --- Tel means "a heap," and abib "new corn."
H. --- There was no new wheat in the fourth month, but rather in May or June.
C. i. 1. Ptolemy places Thelda near the Chaboras. --- Mourning; or Prot.
"astonished," like Job's friends, for people dead in sin. H. --- Many suppose that he never spoke. Yet this is not certain, (v. 11. C.) though probable from v.
16. H.
↑ 15Ezekiel 3:17
Ver. 17. Watchman: the usual title of those placed over others. C. xxxiii. 2. Is.
xxi. 6. Let none perish through thy neglect. C. --- "He (the pastor) kills the man whom he delivers up to death by silence." S. Greg. hom. xi. 9.
↑ 17Ezekiel 3:20
Ver. 20. Iniquity, for want of thy instruction; (H.) or, if thou neglect to reclaim him, (C.) and he perish, or owe his conversion to another, when duty requires thee to take care of him, thou shalt answer for the possible bad consequences.
Thy sin is great, whatever become of him. But if he be damned, though he must blame himself chiefly, yet the blood of his soul shall cry for vengeance more than Abel's. H. --- Before him, taking away my grace in punishment of his revolt. W. --- If thou neglect to attempt reclaiming him, thou shalt perish with him; (S. Greg.) or if he be exposed to trial, and thou abandon him, (Vat.) of if thou neglect to husband well the precious moments, when I open his eyes, and fill him with apprehensions of his dangerous state, I will require, &c. Orig.
S. Jer. --- Remembered. Ingratitude caused the fruits of virtue to decay, and former crimes to revive, in some sense. S. Tho. iii. p. q. 88. a. 1. Mat. v. 26. C.
↑ 20Ezekiel 3:21
Ver. 21. Warn. It is the duty of a pastor to warn the just as well as sinners. W. ---
It will not suffice to do this publicly: sometimes we must go from house to house, like S. Paul, and compel those who are in the hedges to enter the marriage feast, by the most persuasive arguments. H.
↑ 21Ezekiel 3:25
Ver. 25. Bands. It is uncertain whether by his order, or they supposed he was deranged, as our Saviour's brethren meant to treat him. Mar. iii. 21. The Chal.
explains it figuratively of God's order, attaching the prophet to his service. C.
--- But real chains would more forcibly shew the future captivity of Juda (H.) which the prophet declared both by words and actions. C.
↑ 25Ezekiel 3:26
Ver. 26. House. "When there is a multitude of sins, (or sinners; peccatorum) the offenders are unworthy of being corrected by the Lord." S. Jer. --- The prophet's silence might suffice to admonish them. C. --- He heard the Lord's commands to C. xi. 24. before he spoke to the people.
M.
↑ 26Ezekiel 3:27
Ver. 27. Forbeareth. Sept. "disbelieveth, let him disbelieve." So we read, He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; (Apoc. xxii. 11.) which denotes the most desperate condition. H. --- Aquila (2
edit.) has, "he who abandons, shall be abandoned." S. Jer. --- The man who makes good use of grace shall receive more; but he who despises the offers of God, shall be justly deprived of them in his greatest need. C.
↑ 27License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses