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The book of Ezekiel is notoriously strange. Ezekiel's visions, actions, and words are bizarre "sometimes utterly incomprehensible" to us. He lies on his side for over a year, he eats a scroll, he is asked to cook with human waste, and he cannot cry at his wife's death. Ezekiel's message seems unavailable to many because we simply don't have "ears to hear."

human, bird, and beast. Each had four faces and four wings. The four faces were those of a man, ox, lion, and eagle. Rabbinic commentators held that these faces represented the four kinds of proud beings: humans, domestic animals, wild animals, and birds (Exod. Rab. 23.13). Some Christian interpreters, eager to find prefigurements of Christ, have suggested that the human face represents Christ’s incarnation, the ox foreshadows his bearing the cross, the lion prefigures his wearing the crown of thorns,
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