Ezekiel

one of the greater prophets to whom is attributed one of the larger prophetic books of the Old Testament, the visions and utterances which it contains being expre ly ae’ in the work itself, to Ezekiel. e@ was the son of Buzi, a priest (i: 3). He was carried captive, in the time of Jehoiachin, 595 B. c., about 11 years before the destruction of Jerusalem under Zedekiah (xl: 1). His prophecies are mostly in chronological order, those excepted which are launched against foreign nations. There is no direct quotation from Ezekiel in the New Testament, but there are a few allusions to his utterances, especially in the Book of Revelation, which, in the concluding portion, distinetly looks back to the temple arrangements | in the last chapters of zekiel. The genuinene and authenticity of the prophecies of Ezekiel have not been seriously impugned either in the Jewish or Christian Church.