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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 1:3
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The word of the Lord came expressly, &c.] Or, “in being was”f28; which phrase denotes the reality, certainty, substantiality and evidence of the word of the Lord to him: unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi; which Buzi, some say, was Jeremiah. Kimchi observes, that, in the Jerusalem Targum, the Prophet Ezekiel is called the son of Jeremiah the prophet: and Jeremiah was called Buzi because they despised him; this is rejected by Abarbinel; nor is there any reason to believe it, any more than what Nazianzenf29 says, that Ezekiel was a servant of Jeremiah: in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar; (see Gill on “<260101>Ezekiel 1:1”). The Chaldee paraphrase makes the word of the Lord to come to him at two distinct times and places; “the word of prophecy from before the Lord was with Ezekiel the son of Buzi the priest in the land of Israel: it returned a second time, and spoke with him in the province, the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar:” and the hand of the Lord was there upon him; by which is meant the gift and word of prophecy, which came with power and efficacy, clearness and evidence; so the Targum, and the “spirit of prophecy from before the Lord there abode by him;” by which he saw all later visions, and delivered out the following prophecies; (see <610121>2 Peter 1:21).
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