Book of Ezekiel 30:13–18 in an English manuscript from the early 13th century, MS. Bodl. Or. 62, fol. 59a. A Latin translation appears in the margins with further interlineations above the Hebrew.
"The Spirit": as "an empowerment" that Ezekiel's revelations and messages are from God.[8]Andrew B. Davidson notes that the Spirit "is not said directly to be the spirit of God, though in a sense this is meant". He suggests that an alternative reading could simply be "spirit entered me".[9]
Verse 3
And He said to me: "Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day."[10]
Davidson notes that initially, the people to whom Ezekiel is sent are called "the children of Israel", but they are then spoken of as "nations" (goyim, plural: the American Standard Version (1901) speaks of "nations that are rebellious").[11] This may refer to the two houses of Israel, the north and south, or to "the people [of Israel] as a whole considered as consisting of larger divisions".[9]
Verse 10
Then He spread it before me;'
and there was writing on the inside and on the outside,
and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.[12]
"On the inside and on the outside": unlike the ordinary scrolls which contain writing on only one side, this scroll was described as full of words on both side, dramatizing the fact that the oracle was given to Ezekiel by God.[13] This may indicate a knowledge of Jeremiah's scrolls (Jeremiah 36:1–4).[13]
Carley, Keith W. (1974). The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel. Cambridge Bible Commentaries on the New English Bible (illustrated ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN9780521097550.
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