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“For most Bible readers Ezekiel is almost a closed book,” writes John Taylor. “Their knowledge of him extends little further than his mysterious vision of God’s chariot-throne, with its wheels within wheels, and the vision of the valley of the dry bones.” “Otherwise his book is as forbidding in its size as the prophet himself is in the complexity of his make-up,” Taylor goes on. “In its...

baptism and the commencement of his ministry.70 If this is so, the significance of his thirtieth year, in Ezekiel’s autobiographical introduction, would not be lost on his readers and something of the pathos of his disappointed hopes of temple service would come through. It may therefore be assumed that it was by way of compensation for his loss of privilege through the exile that the Lord called Ezekiel to the ministry of prophet and watchman in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin.
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