quite perfunctorily. The problem is surely intensified by the often weird and verbose ways in which Ezekiel makes the point. The obverse reason for the neglect of the book by the church is its relatively brief overtly messianic material. If we define “messianic” too narrowly and then unconsciously try to reduce the entire OT to the narrow theme of prophecy explicitly predictive of the person and work of Christ (which I think we have often been guilty of doing), then we will have special difficulties