Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
Eat this roll, and go speak. God's messenger must first inwardly appropriate God's truth himself, before he "speaks" it to others (note, Ezekiel 2:8). Symbolic actions were, when possible and proper, performed outwardly; otherwise, internally and in spiritual vision, the action so narrated making the naked statement more intuitive and impressive, by presenting the subject in a concentrated, embodied form.