[3] The responsibility of Ezekiel in delivering the message was great. Every servant of the Lord Jesus Christ with a far greater message than Ezekiel's should also feel that responsibility. If it were felt more, there would be more earnestness, more prayer and greater results.
[4] Some have concluded on account of this passage, that throughout the prophetic word wherever "days" are mentioned, they mean "years." This is incorrect. The "year-day" theory is not a scriptural one. Where we find days, it means days unless the text itself, as it is here in Ezekiel, explains the days as years.
[5] Exod. xxviii:38-43; Lev. v:1, 17, vii:8, x:17, etc.
[6] Or spelt, a kind of corn.
[7] The literal meaning is sword, the same as in verse 12.
[8] Another rendering is: "Calamity after calamity!"
[9] The word "fire" is in the Septuagint (ancient Greek Version of the Old Testament) translated "man" so that it reads "the appearance of a man." There is a similarity between the Hebrew words for "man" and "fire." Fire is "esh" and man "ish." Compare with chapter i:26, 17.
[10] This was three months before the war.
[11] The cherub who handed to the man clothed in linen the fire from between the cherubim.
[12] Or, "for a little while."