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Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
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A Living Parable of Terror
Commentators unanimously explain that God commanded Ezekiel to eat and drink with visible fear. This was a powerful, symbolic act, a living parable to demonstrate the intense anxiety and terror that the inhabitants of Jerusalem would experience during the coming siege, where even basic survival would be filled with dread.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates.
19th Century
Anglican
Eat thy bread with quaking.— This is another symbolical action, the meaning of which is immediately explained. The prophe…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet is now ordered to represent the famine that awaited the Jews in both the siege and exile. But this prophecy ought to be especially refe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking As one in surprise or fear, or that has got an ague upon him: and dri…
The prophet must eat and drink in anxiety and fear, with trembling, that he might express the condition of those in Jerusalem during the siege. Whe…
