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Ezekiel 3:24

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 3:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Go, shut thyself within thy heroin, etc. The command implied that he was to cease for a time from all public ministrations. There was a time to keep silence, as well as a time to speak (), and for the immediate future silence was the more effective of the two.

It would, at least, make them eager to hear what the silence meant.

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