Enquire: As to the hope of deliverance from the Babylonians.

I will not be enquired of by you. —As in Ezekiel 14:3. St. Jerome thus comments on the words: “To the holy, and to those …

Here the Prophet is ordered to blame those elders, although they pretended to exceptional piety in inquiring of him: God says that they did not com…

Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them , &c.] Give them this for an answer from me: thus …