The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 3:5
Colonial missions. Ezekiel was not sent, like Jonah, to a foreign city; though living among people of a strange language, he was not called upon to preach to the natives. His mission was to a colony of fellow Jews in a foreign country. He is the typical colonial missionary of the Old Testament. I. THE CLAIMS OF COLONIAL MISSIONS . Broadly stated, there are two great claims in colonial missions. 1 . Close kinship. The colonists are our brethren. Charity begins at home,... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 3:5
Of a strange speech and of a hard language , etc.; literally, as in margin, both of Authorized Version and Revised Version, to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue ; i.e. to a barbarous people outside the covenant, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Scythians: not speaking the familiar sacred speech of Israel (compare the "stammering lips and another tongue" of Isaiah 28:11 ; Isaiah 33:19 ). The thought implied is that Ezekiel's mission, as to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" ( ... read more