CONTENTS
The Prophet is here ordained, and a most blessed ordination it was The Lord showeth him what is to be the nature of his ministry, and aids him to be armed for the service.
We have here the divine ordination of the Prophet to his ministry. The Lord having prepared his mind by the solemn vision in the foregoing Chapter; and that vision having caused the Prophet to fall upon his face before the Lord! The Ordination now begins. Oh! how devoutly to be prayed for is it, that the ministers of God's sanctuary, were all thus prepared under impressions of grace, and humbled to the dust of the earth before the Lord, in a consciousness of their own nothingness, when expecting ordination, to go forth to tell others of their nothingness, and the Lord Jesus's all-sufficiency. I detain the Reader at this verse just to remark the peculiarity of expression by which the Prophet is called, Son of Man! None of the Prophet's but Ezekiel, as far as I recollect, was ever called by this name; and he no less than ninety times in his prophecy. Was it as a type of Jesus? I ask the question, but determine it not. Certainly it is remarkable. For it is a phrase peculiarly made use of for the Lord Jesus Christ. And of Him it is used in the Gospels more than threescore times.