The type is very expressive, and full to the purpose. And if we consider the judgment here spoken of spiritually, (and no doubt it was so intended), the head and the hair, represent Christ and his Church. During the separation of the people by captivity, they were as hair shaven off and carried away: and the Lord's anger is most strongly expressed under the image and figure. The relief to the soul under this view the Holy Ghost hath given, Romans 11:15-23. I would have the Reader look at Christ's commendation of his Church, under the similitude, Song of Solomon 7:5. The different exercises of the Church, are as strongly represented, under the threefold sentence of the hair. See Zechariah 13:9. And I cannot forbear adding, that according to my view of this scripture, the few in number, the Prophet was commended to bind in his skirts, carries with the precept a strong presumption, that the Lord thereby referred to that few chosen, which in the worst of times the Lord hath reserved among the remnant of his people. Isaiah 11:16.
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Ezekiel 5:1-4
1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.a
4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.