AN ENTIRELY NEW EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT ILLUSTRATED. VOL. VI. FROM THE EXILE TO MALACHI, COMPLETING THE OLD TESTAMENT. NEW YORK: JAMES POTT & COMPANY. 1903 344 G454 ho CONTENTS. 1. A VOICE FROM CHEBAR, AGAINST JUDAH. II. THE CRISIS AS IT APPEARED TO EZEKIEL PAGE HOURS WITH THE BIBLE. CHAPTER I. A VOICE FROM CHEBAR, AGAINST JUDAH. NOTHING was more fatal to the religious life of the exiles in Chaldæa, or their brethren still left in Judah, than the confident air of some, calling themselves prophets, who held out hopes directly opposed to the warnings of men like Ezekiel and Jeremiah. The result had been a general discredit of the order. It had become a common saying that "The days of trouble are long in coming; all prophecy is deceit." Men who thus misled the community by audacious misrepresentations made in the name of God, needed to be openly assailed, and Ezekiel, therefore, determined thoroughly to expose them. Referring to the proverb so current, he informed his fellow-captives that Jehovah commanded him to address them thus, in His name: "XII. 23. I will make this proverb cease, so that it will no longer be used in Israel. Say to them: The days (of visitation) and of the fulfilment of every prediction are at hand. 24. For there shall no more be lying vision, or (false) flattering divination, in the House of Israel. 25. But I, Jehovah, will speak, and what I speak will come forthwith to pass; it will be no longer delayed. In your own days, O Ezek. xii. 22. VOL. VI.-1 2 Ezek. xii. 23-28. |