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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 3:24 - 3:24
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set me upon my feet - having been previously prostrate and unable to rise until raised by the divine power.
shut thyself within ... house - implying that in the work he had to do, he must look for no sympathy from man but must be often alone with God and draw his strength from Him [Fairbairn]. “Do not go out of thy house till I reveal the future to thee by signs and words,” which God does in the following chapters, down to the eleventh. Thus a representation was given of the city shut up by siege [Grotius]. Thereby God proved the obedience of His servant, and Ezekiel showed the reality of His call by proceeding, not through rash impulse, but by the directions of God [Calvin].