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 * and the name.
  Ge 22:14  Jer 33:16  Zec 14:21 
 * The Lord.  Heb. JEHOVAH shammah.
  Ex 15:26  17:15  Jud 6:24  Ps 46:5  48:3,14  68:18  77:13  132:14 
  Isa 12:6  14:32  24:23  Jer 3:17  Joe 3:21  Zec 2:10  Re 21:3  22:3 



            CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL.

 The character of Ezekiel, as a Writer and Poet, is thus
 admirably drawn by the masterly hand of Bishop Lowth:  "Ezekiel
 is much inferior to Jeremiah in elegance; in sublimity he is not
 even excelled by Isaiah; but his sublimity is of a totally
 different kind.  He is deep, vehement, tragical; his sentiments
 are elevated, animated, full of fire and indignation; his
 imagery is crowded, magnificent, terrific; his language is
 grand, solemn, austere, rough, and at times unpolished; he
 abounds in repetitions, not for the sake of grace or elegance,
 but from vehemence and indignation.  Whatever subject he treats
 of, that he sedulously puruses; from that he rarely departs, but
 cleaves, as it were, to it; whence the connexion is in general
 evident and well preserved.  In other respects he may perhaps be
 exceeded by the other prophets; but, for that species of
 composition to which he seems adapted by natural gifts, the
 forcible, impetuous, grave, and grand, not one of the sacred
 writers is superior to him.  His diction is sufficiently
 perspicuous; all his obscurity arises from the nature of his
 subjects.  Visions (as for instance, among others, those of
 Hosea, Amos, and Zechariah,) are necessarily dark and confused.
 The greater part of Ezekiel, particularly towards the middle of
 the book, is poetical, whether we regard the matter of the
 language."  Abp. Newcombe judiciously observes, The Prophet is
 not to be considered merely as a poet, or as a framer of those
 august and astonishing visions, and of those admirable poetical
 representations, which he committed to writing; but as an
 instrument in the hands of God, who vouchsafed to reveal
 himself, through a long succession of ages, not only in divers
 parts constituting a magnificant and uniform whole, but also in
 different manners, as by voice, by dreams, by inspiration, and
 by plain or enigmatical vision.  "Ezekiel is a great poet, full
 of originality; and, in my opinion, whoever censures him as if
 he were only an imitator of the old prophets, can never have
 felt his power.  He must not, in general, be compared with
 Isaiah, and the rest of the old prophets.  Those are great,
 Ezekiel is also great; those in their manner of poetry, Ezekiel
 in his."  To justify this character the learned prelate descends
 to particulars, and gives apposite examples, not only of the
 clear, flowing, and nervous, but also of the sublime; and
 concludes his observations on his style, by stating it to be his
 deliberate opinion, that if his "style is the old age of Hebrew
 language and composition, (as has been alleged,) it is a firm
 and vigorous one, and should induce us to trace its youth and
 manhood with the most assiduous attention."  As a Prophet,
 Ezekiel must ever be allowed to occupy a very high rank; and few
 of the prophets have left a more valuable treasure to the church
 of God than he has.  It is true, he is in several places
 obscure; but this resulted either from the nature of his
 subjects, or the events predicted being still unfulfilled; and,
 when time has rolled away the mist of futurity, successive
 generations will then perceive with what heavenly wisdom this
 much neglected prophet has spoken.  There is, however, a great
 proportion of his work which is free from every obscurity, and
 highly edifying.  He has so accurately and minutely foretold the
 fate and condition of various nations and cities, that nothing
 can be more interesting than to trace the exact accomplishment
 of these prophecies in the accounts furnished by historians and
 travellers; while, under the elegant type of a new temple to be
 erected, a new worship to be introduced, and a new Jerusalem to
 be built, with new land to be allotted to the twelve tribes, may
 be discovered the vast extent and glory of the New Testament
 Church.

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