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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

The opening words And the Lord answered me apply to the whole of the rest of verses 2–5 (RSV) or 2–4 (TEV). However, verses 2 and 3 contain only instructions on how to handle the message. The content of the message comes only in verse 4. The first instruction is that the prophet should write the vision; make it plain upon tablets. It is not often that the Old Testament records a direct command to a prophet to write his message (compare Isa 8:1; 30:8; Jer 30:2; Ezek 37:16). For notes on the word translated
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