Ezekiel 24:15-27 Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,… Reuss is hardly right in regarding Ezekiel's wife and her death as fictions: the language used implies that she was a real person, and that her death occurred as stated, though, as usual, the prophet employed the incident for didactic purposes, and some of the details may be creations of idealism; for it is characteristic of him that real events float before his eve in a moral atmosphere which magnifies them and gives them an outline which is ideal only. (A. B. Davidson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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