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THE PREACHER'S COMMENTARY

ON THE

PROPHECIES OF EZEKIEL.

THE

Preacher's Complete Homiletical

COMMENTARY

ON THE

OLD TESTAMENT

(ON AN ORIGINAL PLAN),

With Critical and Explanatory Notes, Endices, &c. &c.

BY

VARIOUS AUTHORS.

London:

RICHARD D. DICKINSON, 89 FARRINGDON STREET.

1890.

A

HOMILETIC COMMENTARY

ON THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET

EZEKIEL

CHAPTERS I.-XI.

By the REV. D. G. WATT, M.A.

CHAPTERS XII.-XXIX.

By the REV. T. H. LEALE.

CHAPTERS XXX.-XLVIII.

By the REV. GEO. BARLOW.

London:

RICHARD D. DICKINSON, 89 FARRINGDON STREET.

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PREFACE.

THIS Commentary is the work of three different authors. The portion chapters i.-xi. is written by the Rev. D. G. WATT, M.A.; xii.-xxix. by the Rev. T. H. LEALE; xxx.-xlviii. by the Rev. G. BARLOW.

The Exegetical Notes contain, in a condensed form, the results of recent Biblical criticism, and will be found a valuable help in the interpretation of the text and in furnishing facts of contemporaneous history to elucidate the prophecies. The Vision of the Temple (chapters xl.-xlviii.) is treated in its ideal aspect, and, viewed in this light, it becomes full of suggestiveness to the practised homilete.

Every available work on this confessedly difficult book has been diligently consulted, and the choicest and most helpful passages of the best authors are condensed in the body of this Commentary. Of the 390 Homiletic Outlines all are original, except those which bear the names of their respective authors.

Among other works, the following writers on the Prophecies of Ezekiel have been carefully scanned :-W. Greenhill, E. Henderson, Patrick Fairbairn, Hengstenberg, Keil, M'Farlan, Archbishop Newcombe, Bishop Horsley, Dean Stanley, Kitto, Dr. Frazer's "Synoptical Lectures," Geikie's "Hours with the Bible," Pool's "Annotations," Lightfoot on "The Temple," F. D. Maurice's "Prophets and Kings," Guthrie's "Gospel in Ezekiel," and the following Commentaries-The Speaker's, Lange's, A. Clarke's, Benson's, Sutcliffe's, Matthew Henry's, Trapp's, and Fausset's.

Amid the wealth of imagery in the use of which Ezekiel is so lavish, and the dry facts of history, the aim throughout has been to detect and develop the great moral truths of which the thoughtful sermoniser is in constant search in his anxious study of the Word of God.

SHEFFIELD, August 1890.

G. B.

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