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love for God and neighbor, Wesleyan readers may find here the heartbreaking portrayal of a life that refuses God’s ultimate grace to the believer in the gift of a “single eye” and “pure heart” (Wesley 1971, 32). In addition to gender and sexual imagery, the metaphors in chs 21–24 again confront readers of Ezekiel with the book’s repeated portrayals of God who authorizes and even performs judgment actions that are by modern standards violent, ruthless, and destructive in nature (e.g., 21:3–4). These
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