On the other hand, John Wesley, while recognizing the book’s strangeness (see opening quotation), heralded Ezekiel as a crucial voice for the theology of holiness. He saw Ezek 36:25–38, for example, as one of the clearest portraits of sanctification in the OT, with v 26 yielding the picture of a “sanctified heart, in which the almighty grace of God is victorious, and turns it from all sin to God” (Wesley 1975, 2385). Indeed, the emphasis on God’s holiness and its implications for God’s people is