Ezekiel 20:49 - Exposition

Doth he not speak parables? We can scarcely wonder that Ezekiel's enigmatic words here, as in Ezekiel 15:1-8 , Ezekiel 16:1-63 , and Ezekiel 17:1-24 , should have called forth some such expression from his hearers; but he obviously records the whisper which he thus heard, in a tone of sorrow and indignation. It was to him a proof, as a like question was to the Christ proof that those hearers were yet without understanding. The question was, for those who asked it, an excuse for hardening their hearts against remonstrances which needed no explanation. The indignation was followed by another interval of silence, during which he brooded over their stubbornness, and at last, in Ezekiel 21:1 , the word of the Lord comes to him, and he speaks "no more in proverbs," but interprets the latest parable even in its details.