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Ezek.24:1. And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying: Ezek.24:2. Son of man, write for yourself the name of this day; from him the king of Babylon was strengthened against Jerusalem, from this day, even to this day. He informs us about the time at which the king of Babylon took up arms against Jerusalem. But when he kept the city under siege, the Prophet, already taken prisoner, foreshadows the threatening disasters. Therefore, the Lord, showing the untruthfulness of the prophecy, commands to note the day on which the enemy began to approach the city, so that at the end of events both those who had already become captives and the besieged would know that from the very beginning this God had predicted about them, and that they were not defeated by the power of their enemies, but were punished for their own sins. Ezek.24:3. And speak a parable to the house that angers, The prophet is given the command, after he notices the time, to announce in detail and mysteriously what will happen to the city, so that the listeners, due to the ambiguity of what was said, begin to inquire more carefully about this, and find out God’s prophecies with greater accuracy. and say to them: This says the Lord Adonai: instruct the konob, instruct, pour in the water, Ezek.24:4–5. and look there, cut in two, every good cut, shin and side, trimmed from the bones, taken from the chosen cattle: and burn them with the bones under them: “Konob” calls the city “infused with water” - all kinds of disasters, “cuts, shanks and frames from chosen cattle” - princes, elders and priests who lived in abundance, wealth and strength, and are suddenly given over to disasters, bones used for oppression - living in poverty, who, before others, will be betrayed by hunger, and by fire - the king of Babylon and his army. To this God adds: His bones rose and boiled and boiled in the middle of him, that is, because of the fire, the bones that served as a source of pressure were destroyed by fire, because the inhabitants became prey to hunger, and those who escaped the attacks of hunger come to the most extreme distress, being attacked by the besiegers. Ezek.24:6. For this reason, the Lord Adonai says: “About the city of blood, Konoba, there is poison in it, and the poison did not come out of it: you wore it out, and the lot did not fall on it.” This teaches us that above he called the city konob, but he calls sin poison in konob. But here is the strongest accusation: even such a fire of disaster did not destroy the poison in the konoba. What was said: “after it was carried out, the lot did not fall on it,” means that no one escaped the disasters that befell, and there was no lot for some to perish and for others to be saved, as happened in previous sieges, but absolutely everyone was betrayed, some to hunger, some to pestilence, and those who escaped this were either killed in battles, or, after the capture of the city, were enslaved. It also reveals the cause of evil. Ezek.24:7. For there is blood in his midst, that is, they will tolerate this as punishment for many unjust murders. on the smooth stone of those who made it: they did not spill it on the ground to cover the ground, Ezek.24:8. He will bring My wrath, he will take revenge in vengeance: I gave his blood on the smooth stone, which cannot be covered, that is, I will not cover up the iniquities that they dared to commit, but I will present them in all their nakedness, and I will show everyone how some kind of blood is not shed on the ground and swallowed up by the earth, but is spewed onto a smooth stone, and is always preserved on it as an accusation against those who dared to shed it: Ezek.24:9–12. For this reason the Lord Adonai says: O fierce city of blood! I will enlarge the head, and multiply the wood, and kindle the fire, so that the meat will burn out, and the food will become scarce; and the bones will melt away, and the tops thereof will become thin, burning, as if it were burning, and the copper thereof will be scorched, and the copper thereof will melt away, and the poison thereof shall be exhausted, and let its poison be humbled, and not depart from it. “I will magnify the main thing,” says God, that is, I will increase the beginning of disasters, “I will multiply the wood,” in other words, I will provide many occasions and food for the fire of disasters to ignite this fire, and bring the cooked meat, that is, the people living in the city, to melt away; some will be destroyed by hunger, like burnt bones, others will be consumed by all kinds of disasters, like boiled “meat”. From the strong pressure of the fire, both the yukha and everything that is necessary and serves as a reason for coolness will be destroyed, so that finally, from being in the fire, the copper will melt away by itself and will be destroyed along with the poison. For when the defenders of the city were defeated, then the city was taken, destroyed and set on fire. However, God says, even after so many disasters befell him, he was not freed from poison, but the inclination to sin remained in him. Therefore, he adds: “many is his poison, his poison will be put to shame: dill is in your uncleanness” (Ezek. 24:12-13). In your iniquity, says God, you created an incineration, kindled this flame of fire, because there was a lot of sinful poison in you, which, being discovered at the present time, will be covered with shame. Ezek.24:13. Have you ever been defiled, and have you not been cleansed from your uncleanness, and if you have not been cleansed for this, until I will fulfill My wrath in you? If you do not want to heal the ulcers, you will not receive forgiveness, and you will not take advantage of the cleansing until you have been punished for all legal crimes. Then the untruthfulness of what was said is proven by the quality of the face. Ezek.24:14. I am the Lord of the verbs And the fulfillment of what was said is indisputable: and he will come, and I will do, and I will not cut down, and I will not spare, and I will not beg: It will not be that I will free some and betray others, but I will expose all to threatening disasters. God also proves the justice of the punishment. according to your ways and according to your thoughts I will judge you, says the Lord Adonai And he states the same thing in more detail: For this reason I judge thee according to thy thoughts, and according to thy blood, I judge thee uncleanly: be reviled, and be great unto wrath. You have become famous for your vices, says God, but the reason for your iniquity is that you follow evil thoughts; He expressed this by saying: “By your thoughts and by your blood I will judge you.” For, having first thought whether something is good or bad, then we add action to the thoughts. After this he turns the prophecy to both, and says: Ezek.24:13. The word of the Lord came to me, saying: Ezek.24:16. son of man, behold, I will take from You your desires, do not weep, weep below, let tears come to you. Ezekiel 24:17. Arise silently, there is a groaning of the blood, there is a cry from the loins: “Desires of hair” or “thoughts” (for this is how it is read in some lists) is what God calls the wife of the Prophet, after whose death the Prophet receives the command not to cry or lament, but to groan silently, although there is weeping in his loins. For with the word “loins” God expressed the desire for childbearing. So the divine Apostle, speaking about Levi, said: “It was still in his father’s loins when Melchizedek took his shit” (Heb. 7:10), and blessed him. This is why we are commanded to “gird up our loins” (Eph. 6:14) in order to tame desires and restrain their desire. Therefore, in the intention of showing the excess of suffering, God rightly said: “there is groaning in the blood, there is weeping in the loins,” that is, groaning and crying about death on your loins. However, even with such misfortune, the Prophet receives a command not to cry. Don't make human tears 18. Then he shows the method. Let your gossip be upon you, and your boots upon your feet, and let not you be comforted by their lips, and let not you bear the bread of men. Do not allow yourself to do anything that is usually done when someone is crying, that is, shave your head, walk barefoot, accept some kind of consolation at the so-called wake. Probably the Prophet was also a Nazirite. For it is said: “Let your gossip be upon you,” and above it was commanded that he drink not wine, but water, and both are characteristic of Nazarites. Ezek.24:18. And I spoke to the people in the morning as I commanded, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning as I commanded. The prophet serves as a kind of prototype of the God of all. Since the people of Israel, in the rank of bride, were united with the Master and were thus to be handed over into slavery and to be beaten, and the church of God to be burned, then God gives the Prophet as a kind of foreshadowing of the future, and after his wife suddenly died, he commands not to cry, not to shed tears, not to assume a sad look, not to eat a comforting meal, but to groan silently, showing that He Himself He will not honor those associated with Him with any love of humanity, but will nevertheless impose punishment on them against their will, because “he does not want the sinner to die, but to turn back and live for him” (Ezek. 33:11). Why does he command the Prophet to groan in silence, to signify that God, against his will, allows disasters to befall the people, having great goodness and being inclined by it to love of mankind, but forced by the excessiveness of lawlessness to punish. Ezekiel 24:19–24. And when people come to me, won’t you tell us what this is, what you are doing? And he said to them, “The word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Thou shalt speak unto the house of Israel: This saith Adonai the Lord: Behold, I will defile my holy, the greatness of your strength, the desires of your desires, and your souls will spare them: and your sons and your daughters, even as you forsake them, shall fall by the sword, and do as I have done: at their mouth shall you not be comforted, and You will not take your husbands' bread, and your hair on your heads, and your saps on your feet: you will not be tormented, you will not cry, and you will fail in your iniquities, and you will not comfort each of his brothers. And Ezekiel will be a miracle for you: according to all the trees that you have made, you will do them: when they come, you will understand that I am Adonai the Lord. Through my deeds, he says, I depicted a prophecy for you, and I myself destined for you the future. For just as I, when my husband’s life ended, did not do anything that is usually done to the dead: I did not lament, did not shed tears, did not take on a deplorable appearance, so you, when your sons and daughters are killed and the holy church is desecrated by the invasion of wicked barbarians, which until now you were proud of and never ceased to be proud of, and besides this you experience thousands of other evils, you will not have the right to complain, you will not receive permission to do what is usual, neither shave your head, nor take off your boots, nor relieve the burden of sadness with streams of tears, nor taste a comforting meal, nor do anything else from the usual, and remember what the Prophet did, and from the end of events you will know that the Prophet served as a kind of sign for you, predicting the future for you with his deeds. Ezek.24:25. And you are the son of man, is it not in that day when their strength is taken from them, their praises are exalted, their desires are in the sight of them, and the exaltation of their souls, their sons and their daughters: Ezek.24:26. On that day someone who is safe will come to you and tell it in your ears. Ezekiel 24:27. On that day your mouth will be opened to the survivor, and you will speak and not keep silent to anyone, and you will be a miracle for them: and they will know that I am Adonai the Lord. Not just at the present time, reveal this to them, but when the prediction comes true, the sacred will be handed over to the wicked barbarians, the sons and daughters will be killed, and someone will come from there, informing them of what happened, reminding them of the prediction, do not remain silent, let them know that this happened by My will and permission, and they suffer punishment for their wickedness, and not from the power of their enemies, but according to Me righteous anger, they suffered everything that they suffered. After this, he finally turns the prophecy to those living in the neighborhood of Israel, and rejoicing in his misfortune, and he is the first to bring out the sons of Ammon among them. In the Seventy these words are not readable.