The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #126
126. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 3
1-3 He should be instructed in the Word, which in itself is delightful. (2, 3)
4-7 He should teach those that have the Word, and consequently are able to live according to the Divine commandments, but they do not so live; while with others it would be otherwise. (2, 11)
8-9 He should not fear their obduracy, (2)
10-11 but should teach them. (2)
12-13 It is perceived that the state of the church has been changed entirely in respect to the Word and doctrine from the Word. (2)
14-15 He was indignant that it should be so. (2)
16-17 But that He might represent the Word, (2)
18-21 he would be guilty if He did not reveal their falsities and evils, and not guilty if He did reveal them. (2)
22-23 It is according to the sense of the letter, which He must explain (2, 16)
24-27 He must not speak from Himself, but from the Lord. (16)
Daniel 5:1-5
1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
2
Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
3
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
4
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5
In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
