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Internalize the Message
Commentators explain that the command to "eat this roll" is figurative. It means to thoroughly read, meditate on, and spiritually digest God's message. Just as food becomes part of the body, the prophet was to make God's word a part of his very being before he could faithfully proclaim it to others.
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Ezekiel
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Albert Barnes
On Ezekiel 3:1
18th Century
Theologian
Previously, there was a direct commission; now there is a symbolic action. John has the same vision (Revelation 10:8 and following), bu…
John Calvin
On Ezekiel 3:1–2
16th Century
Theologian
When the Prophet is ordered to eat whatever he receives, this should not be extended to everything he encounters. However, whatever the taste of th…
John Gill
On Ezekiel 3:1
17th Century
Pastor
Moreover he said to me
The same glorious Person who has been speaking all along in the preceding chapter; and who wa…
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Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 3:1–11
17th Century
Minister
Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened. Gracious souls can…