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Order of Contents
Best 5
Commentaries 3
Early & Medieval 7
Jewish 1
Ezekiel Generally 2
Chapters 14
Messianic Passages 1
Authenticity 1
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The Best Commentaries on Ezekiel
Puritan
Greenhill, William – An Exposition of Ezekiel (1645-1667)
*** – “We always get something out of Greenhill whenever we refer to him. He had not, of course, the critical skill of the present day, but his spiritual insight was keen. He rather commented on a passage than expounded it.” – Spurgeon
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Intermediate, 1800’s
Cowles, Henry – Ezekiel and Daniel with Notes, Critical, Explanatory and Practical, Designed for both Pastors and People 1867
Cowles was a Yale graduate, Congregationalist pastor and professor of languages and Ecclesiastical history who wrote number of commentaries on books of the Bible.
*** – “In his own way this author is one of the most instructive of American writers; he is clear and definite, and leaves his meaning impressed upon the mind. His scholarship is respectable.” – Spurgeon
Fairbairn, Patrick – Ezekiel and the Book of his Prophecy, an Exposition 1855 Advanced comments are kept to the footnotes.
Fairbairn was a minister and a renowned professor of the Free Church of Scotland.
*** – “This exposition has passed through three editions, and has gained for its author a high place among elucidators of difficult parts of Scripture. Dr. Fairbairn has a cool judgment and a warm heart; he has cast much light upon Ezekiel’s wheels, and has evidently felt the touch of the live coal, which is better still.” – Spurgeon
‘Highlights the historical setting of the book.’ – Cyril J. Barber
Henderson, Ebenezer – The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, with Commentary, Critical, Philological and Exegetical (1855)
*** – “Valuable condensed notes.” – Spurgeon
Lange’s Commentary – Ezekiel
*** – Spurgeon
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Commentaries on Ezekiel
The Reformation
Beckwith, Carl – Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Ezekiel, Daniel Buy
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Devotional & Practical
Blackwood, Andrew
Ezekiel: Prophecy of Hope Buy
‘Consists of series of expository sermons on the prophecy of Ezekiel. Amillennial.’ – Cyril J. Barber
The Other Son of Man: Ezekiel/Jesus Buy
‘An informative series of sermonettes on Ezekiel’s prophecy.’ – Cyril J. Barber
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Intermediate
Newcome, William – An Attempt Towards an Improved Version, a Metrical Arrangement & an Explanation of the Prophet Ezekiel (1788)
** – “Dr. Fairbairn says: ‘The notes are of a very brief description, chiefly explanatory of the meanings given in the translation; and both the translation and the notes proceed to a large extent on the vicious principle, very prevalent at the time, of getting rid of difficulties in the sense by proposed emendations of the text.’ Yet Newcome showed both learning and diligence in this improved version.” – Spurgeon
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Advanced
Hengstenburg, E.W. – The Prophecies of Ezekiel Elucidated (1869)
** – “We have frequently characterized this author’s writings. They are clear, cold, and dry, like a fine moonlight night in the middle of winter. A man needs a peculiar mind to enjoy Hengstenberg; but all educated students can profit by him.” – Spurgeon
Keil, C.F. – Ezekiel
** – Spurgeon
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The Early Church on Ezekiel
Compilations
Stevenson, Kenneth & Michael Glerup – Ancient Commentary on Scripture: Ezekiel, Daniel Pre Buy (IVP Academic, 2008) 360 pp. ToC
Mein, Andrew – Ezekiel Through the Centuries Ref (Blackwell, 2015) 256 pp.
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Individuals
Origen
Exegetical Works on Ezekiel… trans. Mischa Hooker in Ancient Texts in Translation (Ipswich: Chieftain Publishing, 2014) 730 pp. ToC
Origen (c. 185 – c. 253)
Homilies 1-14 on Ezekiel ed. Thomas P. Scheck in Ancient Christian Writers: the Works of the Fathers in Translation, vol. 62 (Newman Press, 2010) 193 pp. no ToC
Macarius of Egypt – Homilies 1-5 on Ezekiel at Patristic Bible Commentary
Macarius (c. 300 – 391)
Jerome
Commentary on Ezekiel in Ancient Christian Writers, vol. 71 Ref (Newman Press, 2017) 659 pp. Latin
Theodoret of Cyrus – Commentary on the Prophet Ezekiel Ref (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2006) 349 pp.
Theodoret (c. 393 – c. 458/466)
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The Medieval Church
Individual
Gregory the Great – The Homilies of St. Gregory the Great on the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Ref (Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 2008) 307 pp.
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Jewish Medieval Commentary
Harris, Robert A. – Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency, Commentaries on Amos & Jonah (with Selections from Isaiah & Ezekiel) Pre (Kalamazoo, MI: Teams, 2018) 115 pp. ToC
Eliezer (fl. 1100’s)
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On Ezekiel Generally
Godet, Frederic – ‘Ezekiel’ 1882 10 pp. in Studies in the Old Testament, pp. 161-171
Guthrie, Thomas – The Gospel in Ezekiel, Illustrated in a Series of Discourses (1870)
Guthrie (1803-1873) was a minister in the Free Church of Scotland.
** – “Very little of Ezekiel, and a great many of those flowers of eloquence which rendered Dr. Guthrie so famous. We can hardy regard it as an exposition. It only dwells upon the latter part of the 36th chapter.” – Spurgeon
Rowley, Harold Henry – The Book of Ezekiel in Modern Study Buy Pre (1953)
‘Critical essays of importance for their survey of the commentaries written and the different positions held by people who have studied Ezekiel’s prophecy.’ – Cyril J. Barber
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On Chapters in Ezekial
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Ezekiel 1
Fuller, Andrew – ‘Ezekiel’s Visions’ on chs. 1 & 10 in Works, vol. 1, pp. 636-37
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Ezekiel 2
Cooper, Thomas – The Exposition upon the 2nd Chapter of Ezekiel in A Brief Exposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament as Usually are Read in the Church at Common Prayer on the Sundays d. 1594 English reformer
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Ezekiel 10
Fuller, Andrew – ‘Ezekiel’s Visions’ on chs. 1 & 10 in Works, vol. 1, pp. 636-37
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Ezekiel 11
Harris, Robert – A Treatise of the New Covenant; set Forth Sermon-Wise, on Ezekiel 11 (1632)
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Ezekiel 14
Cooper, Thomas – The Exposition upon the 14th Chapter of Ezekiel in A Brief Exposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament as Usually are Read in the Church at Common Prayer on the Sundays d. 1594 English reformer
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Ezekiel 16
Cooper, Thomas – The Exposition upon the 16th Chapter of Ezekiel in A Brief Exposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament as Usually are Read in the Church at Common Prayer on the Sundays d. 1594 English reformer
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Ezekiel 17
Cooper, Thomas – The Exposition upon the 17th Chapter of Ezekiel in A Brief Exposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament as Usually are Read in the Church at Common Prayer on the Sundays d. 1594 English reformer
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Ezekiel 20
Cooper, Thomas – The Exposition upon the 20th Chapter of Ezekiel in A Brief Exposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament as Usually are Read in the Church at Common Prayer on the Sundays d. 1594 English reformer
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Ezekiel 24
Cooper, Thomas – The Exposition upon the 24th Chapter of Ezekiel in A Brief Exposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament as Usually are Read in the Church at Common Prayer on the Sundays d. 1594 English reformer
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Ezekiel 37
Fuller, Andrew – Illustrations of Scripture: Conversion of the Jews on Eze. 37:1-28 in Works, 1:592-97
Burns, William C. – ‘The Valley of Vision’ on Eze. 37:1-28, also in Revival Sermons, pp. 155-68
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The End of Ezekiel, the New Temple
Alleine, William – The Mystery of the Temple and City Described in the Nine Last Chapters of Ezekiel Unfolded (1679)
** – “Very rare; will interest interpreters of prophecy.” – Spurgeon
Beverley, Thomas – The Pattern of the Divine Temple, Sanctuary & City of the New Jerusalem, Measured according to Ezekiel’s Last & Greatest Vision, ch. 40 to the End… ([London, 1690])
Beverley (d. 1702) was a puritan.
Hengstenberg, E.W. – See below on the Messianic Passages
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The Messianic Passages of Ezekiel
Hengstenberg, E.W. – ‘Messianic Predictions in Ezekiel’ (1856) 76 pp. in The Christology of the Old Testament, vol. 3, pp. 1-76 Hengstenberg comments on chs: 11:14-21; 16:53-63; 17:22-24; 21:25-27; 34:23-31; 36:22-32; 37:22-28; 40-48
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The Authenticity of Ezekiel
Boyd, James Oscar – ‘Ezekiel & the Modern Dating of the Pentateuch’ (1908) 23 pp.
Boyd was a professor at old Princeton Seminary.
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“Isaiah I take to be the most Pauline of the Old Testament men; Ezekiel the most Petrine.”
John ‘Rabbi’ Duncan
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