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author. Arguments for and against Jeremianic
authorship are extensively developed in Lange’s
commentary on Lamentations, pp. 6-16 and 1935.
3. See Edward J. Young, Introduction to the Old
Testament, pp. 333-36.
4. Psalm 119 is a classic example of acrostic
writing.
5. Though the last verse reads despairingly, an
alternate reading supports the optimism of verse
21. The Revised Standard Version, along with
other translations, prefers to read the text as a
question: “Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art
thou exceedingly angry with us?” (5:22). It is
interesting to note that today, when Jews read
publicly the text of Lamentations, they read
verse 22 before verse 21, so that the concluding
note is not despairing. They do the same for the
last verse of Malachi.
6. Ross Price, “Lamentations,” in The Wycli e
Bible Commentary, p. 696. The religious
calendars of the Jewish and Catholic faiths
assign the reading of the book once a year. For
the latter, it is read on the last three days of
Holy Week.
7. Care should be exercised in this area of
application. In the words of Norman Geisler,
“Any Old Testament passage may be
appropriately applied to Christ, even though the
New Testament writers did not apply it,
providing that it exempli es something from the
life of the Messianic people which nds an
actual correspondence with the truth about
Christ presented somewhere in the Bible”
(Christ: The Theme of the Bible, p. 65).
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Ezekiel: The Glory of the Lord
When God sent His people into exile as
punishment for their sin, He still continued
to speak to them. For if He was to purge the
nation of their corrupt idolatry, they needed
to hear more of the very word which they
had so stubbornly resisted. Among the Jews
taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylon in his second invasion of Judah in
597 B.C. was a man named Ezekiel. This was
the one whom God chose to be His prophet
to the exiles, while Daniel served as God’s
ambassador to the court of the captor king.
It was during the captivity years that
some of the Jews returned to God. This was
the beginning of the religion of Judaism,
and because Ezekiel was the prominent
prophet at this time, he has been called “the
father of Judaism.”
I. PREPARATION FOR STUDY
1. Keep in the back of your mind the
highlights of the message and ministry of
Jeremiah. Much of what Ezekiel preached
was very similar to Jeremiah’s preaching,
which the former prophet must have
listened to often in Jerusalem, up until his
exile at age twenty- ve.1 But thè di erences
were many and marked, as your survey of
Ezekiel will show.
2. Study Chart 86 to familiarize yourself
with the contemporaries of Ezekiel and the
times in which he lived.
