by Patrick Fairbairn
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Patrick Fairbairn was a prominent Scottish Presbyterian of the nineteenth century. He is most well-known for his books on the interpretation of prophecy and on typology. In this classic commentary, he puts his principles of interpretation to work, and the result is a commentary that should still be consulted today. Patrick Fairburn provides comprehensive exegesis of the content and prophecies found in the text. He explores the symbolic and implicit details and provides insightful clarification..
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Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I.
The Time And Manner Of His Entering Upon The Prophetical Office.
CHAPTER II.―III. 1-11.
Call To The Prophetical Office.
CHAPTER III. 12-27.
Ezekiel’s Entrance On His Mission, And The First Message Imparted To Him.
CHAPTER IV.
The Vision Of The Siege And The Iniquity-Bearing.
CHAPTER V. VI.
The Vision Of The Shorn Hair And Its Foreshadowing Desolations.
CHAPTER VII.
Lamentation Over The Guilt And Fall Of Israel.
CHAPTER VIII.
The Image Of Jealousy And Other Abominations At Jerusalem.
CHAPTER IX.
The Vision Of The Sealing.
CHAPTER X.
The Vision Of The Coals Of Fire.
CHAPTER XI.
Destruction Of A Corrupt Priesthood, With The Promise Of Grace And Blessing To A Believing Remnant Among The Exiles.
CHAPTER XII.
The Vision Of Ezekiel’s Typical Removing As An Exile, And Accompanying Instructions.
CHAPTER XIII.
The False In Prophecy, Its Character And Doom.
CHAPTER XIV.
Hypocritical Inquirers After God—Their Wickedness Discovered And Rebuked.
CHAPTER XV.
The Guilt And Condemnation Of Israel Parabolically Represented.
CHAPTER XVI.
The Story Of Israel’s Guilt And Punishment.
CHAPTER XVII.
The Parable Of The Two Great Eagles, And The Cropping Of The Cedar Of Lebanon.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Retributive Righteousness Of God.
CHAPTER XIX.
The Lamentation Over The Downfall Of The Royal House.
CHAPTER XX.
A Display Of The People’s Long-Continued Sinfulness And The Lord’s Long-Suffering Mercy And Goodness.
CHAPTER XX. 45-49, XXI.
The Vision Of The Lord’s Fire And Sword.
CHAPTER XXII.
The Lord’s Judgment Upon The All-Pervading Sinfulness Of Jerusalem.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The Story Of Israel’s Sin And Punishment Parabolically Exhibited Under The Names Of Aholah And Aholibah.
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Vision Of The Boiling Caldron, And Of The Death Of Ezekiel’s Wife.
CHAPTER XXV.
The Judgment Of Israel’s Immediate Neighbours And Rivals—Ammon, Moab, Edom, And The Philistines.
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Judgment Of Tyre.
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Lamentation Upon Tyre, With An Account Of Her Former Greatness And Prosperity.
CHAPTER XXVIII. 1-19.
The Criminatory Address To The King Of Tyre, And The Lamentation Over His Coming Downfall.
CHAPTER XXVIII. 20-26.
The Judgment Of Sidon, And The Ultimate Peace Of Israel.
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Judgment Of Egypt—Its Desolation For Forty Years, And Subsequent Degradation—The First Instrument Of Chastisement, Nebuchadnezzar.
CHAPTER XXX.
Continuation Of Egypt’s Judgment.
CHAPTER XXXI.
The Certainty Of Pharaoh’s Doom Confirmed By A Parabolical Relation Of Assyria’s Greatness And Destruction.
CHAPTER XXXII.
Songs Of Lamentation Over The Fall Of Pharaoh And His Kingdom.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Renewal Of Ezekiel’s Commission—His Office As Watchman.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Promise Of The True Shepherd, After The False Shepherds Have Been Punished And Removed.
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Judgment Of Edom.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Israel Revenged And Comforted—The New Heart And The Blissful Heritage.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
The Vision Of The Dry Bones Restored To Life Again, As Symbolical Of Israel’s Death And Resurrection.
CHAPTERS XXXVIII., XXXIX.
The Assault Of Gog, And His Destruction.
CHAPTER XL.-XLVIII.
Preliminary Remarks On The Vision In Chap. XL.-XLVIII., With Respect To The Principles On Which It Ought To Be Interpreted.
CHAPTER XL.
The Position, Walls, Gates, And Courts Of The Temple.
CHAPTER XL. 48, 49, XLI.
The Temple Itself.
CHAPTER XLII.
Chambers Of The Temple And Its Boundary Walls.
CHAPTER XLIII.
The Lord’s Return To The Temple.
CHAPTER XLIV.
Ordinances For The Prince And The Priesthood.
CHAPTER XLV.
The Sacred Allotments In Land And Gifts.
CHAPTER XLVI.
Additional Ordinances For The Prince And People.
CHAPTER XLVII. 1-12.
Vision Of The Temple-Waters.
CHAPTER XLVII. 13-23, XLVIII.
The Boundaries And Re-Distribution Of The Land.