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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links 2015 December 24
Priest With a Book: Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli (Folio 159) - (c. 1370)
Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (c. 1339 - c. 1399)
International Gothic Style
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Image Credit: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: In Ezekiel 2 the LORD tells Ezekiel to stand upright and delivers a book to him which contained lamentations, and mourning, and woe. As a priest, Ezekiel would have been around the sacred books and may have handled them. In a similar way, in the painting above, a priest holds a book, a Gradual (a hymnal for the Mass). But Ezekiel was about to do something unusual with the book which the LORD gave him -- for in the next chapter, at God's command, he ate the book.
Today's painting features a priest with a book, symbolizing the book which the LORD gave to Ezekiel in today's chapter.
[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Ezekiel 1. Ezekiel 2. Ezekiel 3. Ezekiel 4. Ezekiel 5. ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
1. Before the Siege of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 1:1 - Ezekiel 23:49) - 593 - 586 B.C. Babylon
A. The Messenger and Siege Motif
2). The Commission: To be a Watchman (2:1 - 3:23)
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Ezekiel 2
2). The Commission: To be a Watchman (2:1 - 3:23)
1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
4 For they are impudent children [obstinate faces] and stiffhearted [unyielding heart]. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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