Ezekiel 3:27 - Exposition

When I speak with thee, etc. This then, as ever, was the condition of the prophet's work. He was to speak out of his own heart. When the "time to speak" came words would be given him ( Matthew 10:19 ). And those he would then speak would be as the echo of those in Ezekiel 3:11 . In our Lord's words ( Matthew 11:15 ; Matthew 13:9 ) we have, it may be, a deliberate reproduction of Ezekiel's formula. The LXX ; in this instance, it may be noted, translates the second clause by " He who is disobedient ( ἀπειθῶν ), let him disobedient," which in its turn finds an echo in Revelation 22:11 .