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After John, I Want to See Ezekiel
// 26th September
Tremper Longman & Raymond B. Dillard:
Ezekiel is identified as psychic, schizophrenic, epileptic, catatonic, psychotic, or paranoid… perhaps the most notorious example of this sort of approach to the prophet was the Freudian analysis offered by Broome, who concluded that Ezekiel was “a true psychotic” characterised by “a narcissistic-masochistic conflict, with attendant phantasies of castration and unconscious sexual regression” “schizophrenic withdrawal,” and “delusions of persecution and grandeur”.
Ezekiel, Son of Buzi:
“And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee. Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house. But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD…
“Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down. Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.” So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died.
Badly Drawn Boy: Silent Sigh
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Always love the way ye olde english came up with their own words like ‘spake’.
Kris, October 12th