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The Representation of a Siege. . 1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. The prophet is here ordered to represent to himself and others by signs which would be proper and powerful to strike the fancy and to affect the mind, the siege of Jerusalem; and this amounted to a prediction. I. He was ordered to engrave a draught of Jerusalem upon a tile, Ezekiel 4:1 ; Ezekiel 4:1 . It was Jerusalem's honour that while she kept her integrity God had graven her upon the palms of his hands ( Isaiah 49:16 ), and the names of the tribes were engraven in precious stones on the breast-plate of the high priest; but, now that the faithful city has become a harlot, a worthless brittle tile or brick is thought good enough to portray it upon. This the prophet must lay before him, that the eye may affect the heart. II. He was ordered to build little forts against this portraiture of the city, resembling the batteries raised by the besiegers, Ezekiel 4:2 ; Ezekiel 4:2 . Between the city that was besieged and himself that was the besieger he was to set up an iron pan, as an iron wall, Ezekiel 4:3 ; Ezekiel 4:3 . This represented the inflexible resolution of both sides; the Chaldeans resolved, whatever it cost them, that they would make themselves masters of the city and would never quit it till they had conquered it; on the other side, the Jews resolved never to capitulate, but to hold out to the last extremity. III. He was ordered to lie upon his side before it, as it were to surround it, representing the Chaldean army lying before it to block it up, to keep the meat from going in and the mouths from going out. He was to lie on his left side 390 days ( Ezekiel 4:5 ; Ezekiel 4:5 ), about thirteen months; the siege of Jerusalem is computed to last eighteen months ( Jeremiah 52:4-6 ), but if we deduct from that five months' interval, when the besiegers withdrew upon the approach of Pharaoh's army ( Jeremiah 37:5-8 ), the number of the days of the close siege will be 390. Yet that also had another signification. The 390 days, according to the prophetic dialect, signified 390 years; and, when the prophet lies so many days on his side, he bears the guilt of that iniquity which the house of Israel, the ten tribes, had borne 390 years, reckoning from their first apostasy under Jeroboam to the destruction of Jerusalem, which completed the ruin of those small remains of them that had incorporated with Judah. He is then to lie forty days upon his right side, and so long to bear the iniquity of the house of Judah, the kingdom of the two tribes, because the measure-filling sins of that people were those which they were guilty of during the last forty years before their captivity, since the thirteenth year of Josiah, when Jeremiah began to prophesy ( Jeremiah 1:1 ; Jeremiah 1:2 ), or, as some reckon it, since the eighteenth, when the book of the law was found and the people renewed their covenant with God. When they persisted in their impieties and idolatries, notwithstanding they had such a prophet and such a prince, and were brought into the bond of such a covenant, what could be expected but ruin without remedy? Judah, that had such helps and advantages for reformation, fills the measure of its iniquity in less time than Israel does. Now we are not to think that the prophet lay constantly night and day upon his side, but every day, for so many days together, at a certain time of the day, when he received visits, and company came in, he was found lying 390 days on his left side and forty days on his right side before his portraiture of Jerusalem, which all that saw might easily understand to mean the close besieging of that city, and people would be flocking in daily, some for curiosity and some for conscience, at the hour appointed, to see it and to take their different remarks upon it. His being found constantly on the same side, as if bands were laid upon him (as indeed they were by the divine command), so that he could not turn himself from one side to another till he had ended the days of the siege, did plainly represent the close and constant continuance of the besiegers about the city during that number of days, till they had gained their point. IV. He was ordered to prosecute the siege with vigour ( Ezekiel 4:7 ; Ezekiel 4:7 ): Thou shalt set thy face towards the siege of Jerusalem, as wholly intent upon it and resolved to carry it; so the Chaldeans would be, and neither bribed nor forced to withdraw from it. Nebuchadnezzar's indignation at Zedekiah's treachery in breaking his league with him made him very furious in pushing on this siege, that he might chastise the insolence of that faithless prince and people; and his army promised themselves a rich booty of that pompous city; so that both set their faces against it, for they were very resolute. Nor were they less active and industrious, exerting themselves to the utmost in all the operations of the siege, which the prophet was to represent by the uncovering of his arm, or, as some read it, the stretching out of his arm, as it were to deal blows about without mercy. When God is about to do some great work he is said to make bare his arm, Isaiah 52:10 . In short, The Chaldeans will go about their business, and go on in it, as men in earnest, who resolve to go through with it. Now, 1. This is intended to be a sign to the house of Israel ( Ezekiel 4:3 ; Ezekiel 4:3 ), both to those in Babylon, who were eye-witnesses of what the prophet did, and to those also who remained in their own land, who would hear the report of it. The prophet was dumb and could not speak ( Ezekiel 3:26 ; Ezekiel 3:26 ); but as his silence had a voice, and upbraided the people with their deafness, so even then God left not himself without witness, but ordered him to make signs, as dumb men are accustomed to do, and as Zacharias did when he was dumb, and by them to make known his mind (that is, the mind of God) to the people. And thus likewise the people were upbraided with their stupidity and dulness, that they were not capable of being taught as men of sense are, by words, but must be taught as children are, by pictures, or as deaf men are, by signs. Or, perhaps, they are hereby upbraided with their malice against the prophet. Had he spoken in words at length what was signified by these figures, they would have entangled him in his talk, would have indicted him for treasonable expressions, for they knew how to make a man an offender for a word ( Isaiah 29:21 ), to avoid which he is ordered to make use of signs. Or the prophet made use of signs for the same reason that Christ made use of parables, that hearing they might hear and not understand, and seeing they might see and not perceive, Matthew 13:14 ; Matthew 13:15 . They would not understand what was plain, and therefore shall be taught by that which is difficult; and herein the Lord was righteous. 2. Thus the prophet prophesies against Jerusalem ( Ezekiel 4:7 ; Ezekiel 4:7 ); and there were those who not only understood it so, but were the more affected with it by its being so represented, for images to the eye commonly make deeper impressions upon the mind than words can, and for this reason sacraments are instituted to represent divine things, that we might see and believe, might see and be affected with those things; and we may expect this benefit by them, and a blessing to go along with them, while (as the prophet here) we make use only of such signs as God himself has expressly appointed, which, we must conclude, are the fittest. Note, The power of imagination, if it be rightly used, and kept under the direction and correction of reason and faith, may be of good use to kindle and excite pious and devout affections, as it was here to Ezekiel and his attendants. " Methinks I see so and so, myself dying, time expiring, the world on fire, the dead rising, the great tribunal set, and the like, may have an exceedingly good influence upon us: for fancy is like fire, a good servant, but a bad master. " 3. This whole transaction has that in it which the prophet might, with a good colour of reason, have hesitated at and excepted against, and yet, in obedience to God's command, and in execution of his office, he did it according to order. (1.) It seemed childish and ludicrous, and beneath his gravity, and there were those that would ridicule him for it; but he knew the divine appointment put honour enough upon that which otherwise seemed mean to save his reputation in the doing of it. (2.) It was toilsome and tiresome to do as he did; but our ease as well as our credit must be sacrificed to our duty, and we must never call God's service in any instance of it a hard service. (3.) It could not but be very much against the grain with him to appear thus against Jerusalem, the city of God, the holy city, to act as an enemy against a place to which he was so good a friend; but he is a prophet, and must follow his instructions, not his affections, and must plainly preach the ruin of a sinful place, though its welfare is what he passionately desires and earnestly prays for. 4. All this that the prophet sets before the children of his people concerning the destruction of Jerusalem is designed to bring them to repentance, by showing them sin, the provoking cause of this destruction, sin the ruin of that once flourishing city, than which surely nothing could be more effectual to make them hate sin and turn from it; while he thus in lively colours describes the calamity with a great deal of pain and uneasiness to himself, he is bearing the iniquity of Israel and Judah. "Look here" (says he) "and see what work sin makes, what an evil and bitter thing it is to depart form God; this comes of sin, your sins and the sin of your fathers; let that therefore be the daily matter of your sorrow and shame now in your captivity, that you may make your peace with God and he may return in mercy to you." But observe, It is a day of punishment for a year of sin: I have appointed thee each day for a year. The siege is a calamity of 390 days, in which God reckons for the iniquity of 390 years; justly therefore d they acknowledge that God had punished them less than their iniquity deserved, Ezra 9:13 . But let impenitent sinners know that, though now God is long-suffering towards them, in the other world there is an everlasting punishment. When God laid bands upon the prophet, it was to show them how they were bound with the cords of their own transgression ( Lamentations 1:14 ), and therefore they were now holden in the cords of affliction. But we may well think of the prophet's case with compassion, when God laid upon him the bands of duty, as he does on all his ministers ( 1 Corinthians 9:16 , Necessity is laid upon me, and woe unto me if I preach not the gospel ); and yet men laid upon him bonds of restraint ( Ezekiel 3:25 ; Ezekiel 3:25 ); but under both it is satisfaction enough that they are serving the interests of God's kingdom among men. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-9-17" class="com-number"
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**예루살렘 포위 공격의 재현**
> 1 인자야, 너는 진흙 판 하나를 가져다 네 앞에 놓고, 그 위에 예루살렘 성읍을 그려라. 2 그리고 그 성읍을 포위하여라. 포위 공격 진지를 세우고, 흙을 돋아 공격 둑을 쌓고, 진영도 차려 세우고, 성벽을 치는 공성 충차도 둘레에 배치하여라. 3 그리고 쇠 판을 가져다 너와 성읍 사이에 쇠 담처럼 세워라. 그 성읍을 향해 얼굴을 고정하여라. 성읍이 포위될 것이다. 너는 그것을 포위하여라. 이것이 이스라엘 족속에게 보내는 표징이 될 것이다. 4 너는 왼쪽으로 누워 이스라엘 족속의 죄악을 그 위에 짊어져라. 네가 그 위에 누워 있는 날수만큼 그들의 죄악을 짊어지는 것이다. 5 나는 그들의 죄악의 연수를 네가 누워야 할 날수로 정해 두었다. 삼백구십 일이다. 너는 이스라엘 족속의 죄악을 그만큼 짊어져야 한다. 6 그 날들이 다 지나면 오른쪽으로 누워 유다 족속의 죄악을 짊어져라. 나는 하루를 일 년으로 정했으니, 사십 일 동안 누워 있어라. 7 예루살렘 포위 공격을 향해 얼굴을 고정하고 팔을 드러낸 채 예언하여라. 8 보아라, 내가 너에게 줄을 매어 포위 기간이 다 끝날 때까지 이쪽에서 저쪽으로 돌아눕지 못하게 할 것이다.
선지자는 여기서 눈에 보이는 표징들을 통해 예루살렘 포위 공격을 자신과 다른 사람들에게 상징적으로 재현하라는 명령을 받았다. 이 행동은 예언의 내용이기도 했다.
**첫째**, 그는 벽돌 위에 예루살렘의 형상을 새기라는 명령을 받았다(에스겔 4:1). 에스겔 4:1을 보라. 예루살렘이 충성을 지켰을 때는 하나님께서 그녀를 자신의 손바닥에 새기셨고(이사야 49:16), 대제사장의 흉패 위 보석들에는 이스라엘 지파의 이름들이 새겨졌다. 그러나 지금은 충실했던 성읍이 음녀가 되었으므로, 값어치 없고 깨지기 쉬운 벽돌이나 타일이 그것을 새기기에 충분한 재료가 된 것이다. 선지자는 이것을 눈앞에 놓아 눈이 마음을 움직이게 해야 했다.
**둘째**, 그는 이 성읍 형상을 향해 소형 요새들을 쌓으라는 명령을 받았다(에스겔 4:2). 에스겔 4:2를 보라. 포위하는 자신과 포위당하는 성읍 사이에는 쇠 판을 세워 쇠 담처럼 만들어야 했다(에스겔 4:3). 에스겔 4:3을 보라. 이것은 양쪽의 완강한 결의를 나타냈다. 갈대아 군대는 어떤 대가를 치르더라도 성읍을 점령하겠다고 결심했고, 유대인들은 절대 항복하지 않고 끝까지 버티겠다고 결심했다.
**셋째**, 그는 성읍 앞에서 옆으로 누워 갈대아 군대가 성읍을 봉쇄하며 진을 치는 것을 재현하라는 명령을 받았다. 그는 왼편으로 390일 동안 누워 있어야 했다(에스겔 4:5). 에스겔 4:5를 보라. 대략 열세 달이다. 예루살렘 포위는 열여덟 달간 지속된 것으로 계산되지만(예레미야 52:4-6), 파라오 군대가 접근하자 포위군이 물러선 다섯 달을 빼면(예레미야 37:5-8) 실제 포위 일수가 390일이 된다. 그러나 이것은 또 다른 의미도 담고 있었다. 예언적 어법에 따르면 390일은 390년을 의미했다. 선지자가 그 날들만큼 옆으로 누워 있을 때, 그는 이스라엘 족속, 즉 열 지파가 여로보암 아래 처음 배교한 때부터 예루살렘 멸망까지 390년 동안 짊어진 죄악을 대신 짊어지는 것이었다. 그런 다음 그는 오른편으로 40일 동안 누워 유다 족속의 죄악을 짊어져야 했다. 유다 백성이 포로로 잡혀가기 직전 마지막 40년 동안 저지른 죄악들 때문이다. 이는 여호야김 13년에 예레미야가 예언을 시작한 때부터(예레미야 1:1-2)이거나, 어떤 이들의 계산대로라면 율법책이 발견되고 백성이 하나님과 언약을 새로이 한 18년부터다. 그들이 그토록 탁월한 선지자와 왕을 두고, 그 같은 언약의 구속력 아래 있으면서도 계속해서 불경건과 우상 숭배를 고집했으니, 돌이킬 수 없는 멸망 외에 무엇을 기대할 수 있겠는가? 이스라엘보다 도움과 혜택을 훨씬 많이 받은 유다는 더 짧은 기간에 죄악의 잔을 채웠다.
선지자가 항상 밤낮으로 옆으로 누워 있었던 것은 아니다. 다만 매일 일정한 시간에 방문객들이 찾아올 때, 그는 예루살렘 형상 앞에 왼편으로 390일, 오른편으로 40일 누워 있는 모습이 발견되었다. 이것을 보는 누구나 예루살렘이 그만큼의 날들 동안 완전히 포위될 것임을 쉽게 이해할 수 있었다. 하나님의 명령이라는 줄에 묶여 포위 기간이 끝날 때까지 이쪽저쪽으로 돌아눕지 못하는 모습은, 포위군이 목적을 달성할 때까지 그 날들 내내 성읍을 끊임없이 둘러싸고 있을 것임을 분명하게 드러냈다.
**넷째**, 그는 포위 공격을 힘차게 밀어붙이라는 명령을 받았다(에스겔 4:7). 에스겔 4:7을 보라. "예루살렘 포위 공격을 향해 얼굴을 고정하라"고 했는데, 이는 갈대아 군대가 온 마음을 쏟아 결코 물러서지 않겠다는 태도를 가리킨다. 느부갓네살은 시드기야의 배신에 격분하여 포위 공격을 맹렬히 밀어붙였고, 그의 군대는 화려한 성읍에서 풍성한 전리품을 기대했으므로 양쪽 모두 결연히 성읍을 향해 얼굴을 고정했다. 그들은 또한 모든 포위 작전에 최선을 다해 적극적으로 활동했는데, 이것을 선지자는 팔을 드러내는 것으로 상징했다. 하나님께서 어떤 큰 일을 행하실 때 팔을 드러내신다고 말한다(이사야 52:10). 한마디로 갈대아 군대는 진지하게 일에 착수하여 끝까지 해낼 각오로 임할 것이다.
이 행동들이 의미하는 바를 살펴보자.
1. **이것은 이스라엘 족속에게 보내는 표징으로 의도되었다**(에스겔 4:3). 에스겔 4:3을 보라. 바벨론에서 선지자의 행동을 직접 목격한 자들뿐만 아니라 자기 땅에 남아 있던 자들에게도 전달될 것이었다. 선지자는 말을 할 수 없는 상태였고(에스겔 3:26), 침묵 자체가 백성의 귀먹음을 꾸짖는 목소리였다. 그러나 하나님은 그때도 자신에 대한 증거를 남겨 두셨고, 선지자에게 벙어리처럼 손짓으로 하나님의 뜻을 백성에게 알리도록 명하셨다. 이것은 또한 백성의 어리석음과 무감각을 꾸짖는 것이기도 했다. 그들은 분별 있는 사람처럼 말로 가르침 받을 수 없어서, 어린아이처럼 그림으로, 귀먹은 자처럼 손짓으로 가르쳐야 했기 때문이다. 또는 그들이 선지자의 말에 올무를 놓으려 했기 때문에(이사야 29:21), 손짓이 더 안전한 방법이었을 것이다. 아니면 그리스도께서 비유를 사용하신 것과 같은 이유로, 듣되 깨닫지 못하고 보되 알아채지 못하도록(마태복음 13:14-15) 하기 위함이었을 것이다. 그들이 분명한 것도 이해하려 하지 않았으므로, 어려운 것으로 가르침을 받게 된 것이다.
2. **이처럼 선지자는 예루살렘을 향해 예언했다**(에스겔 4:7). 에스겔 4:7을 보라. 눈에 보이는 형상은 말보다 마음에 더 깊은 인상을 남긴다. 바로 이 때문에 성례가 제정된 것이다. 하나님께서 직접 지정하신 표징들을 사용하는 한 그 복을 기대할 수 있다. 올바르게 사용되고 이성과 믿음의 지도 아래 있는 상상력은 경건하고 헌신적인 감정을 불러일으키는 데 유익하다. "내가 이렇게 저렇게 되는 것, 시간이 끝나는 것, 세상이 불타는 것, 죽은 자들이 일어나는 것, 큰 심판대가 세워지는 것을 보는 것 같다"고 생각하는 것은 영혼에 매우 좋은 영향을 줄 수 있다. 상상력은 불과 같아서 좋은 종이지만 나쁜 주인이다.
3. **이 모든 행위에는 선지자가 정당하게 주저할 수 있는 요소들이 있었지만, 그는 하나님의 명령에 순종하여 지시대로 행했다.** 그것은 어린애 같고 우스꽝스러워 보였으며 그의 품위와 어울리지 않았고, 조롱거리가 될 것이었다. 그러나 하나님의 임명은 그 행동이 어리석어 보임에도 그 명예를 충분히 지켜 줄 것이었다. 또한 그 행동은 힘들고 고달팠다. 그러나 편안함도 의무 앞에 희생되어야 하고, 우리는 결코 하나님의 섬김을 힘든 일이라고 불러서는 안 된다. 또한 그에게는 하나님의 성읍, 거룩한 성읍 예루살렘을 대적하는 것처럼 보이는 이 행동이 매우 고통스러웠을 것이다. 그러나 그는 선지자이므로 자기 감정이 아닌 하나님의 지시를 따라야 했고, 아무리 열렬히 소원하고 간절히 기도하는 도성이라도 죄악된 장소의 멸망을 분명하게 선포해야 했다.
4. **선지자가 예루살렘의 파괴에 대해 이스라엘 백성에게 제시한 이 모든 것은, 죄를 보여 줌으로써 그들을 회개로 이끌기 위한 것이었다.** 죄는 그 한때 번성했던 성읍을 파괴하는 원인이었으며, 죄에서 돌이키는 것의 필요성을 절감하게 하는 데 이보다 더 효과적인 것은 없었다. 선지자가 큰 고통과 괴로움으로 그 재앙을 생생하게 묘사하는 동안, 그는 이스라엘과 유다의 죄악을 짊어지고 있었다. "보라, 죄가 얼마나 큰 해악을 끼치는지, 하나님을 떠나는 것이 얼마나 악하고 쓴 일인지 보라. 이것이 죄의 결과다, 너희의 죄와 너희 조상들의 죄의 결과다. 하나님과 화해하고 그분이 다시 너희에게 자비를 베풀어 주시도록 지금 포로의 처지에서 날마다 슬픔과 수치로 회개하라."
그런데 주목할 것이 있다. 죄의 일 년에 심판의 하루가 대응한다. 하나님은 하루를 일 년으로 정하셨다. 390일간의 포위 공격은 390년간의 죄악에 대한 형벌이다. 그러므로 그들이 하나님께서 자신들의 죄악보다 가볍게 벌하셨음을 고백한 것은 당연했다(에스라 9:13). 그러나 회개하지 않는 죄인들은 알아야 한다. 지금 하나님께서 오래 참으신다 할지라도, 다른 세상에는 영원한 심판이 있다는 것을. 하나님께서 선지자에게 줄을 매셨을 때, 그것은 백성이 자신들의 범죄의 줄에 묶여 있음을 보여 주는 것이었다(예레미야애가 1:14). 따라서 그들은 지금 고통의 줄에 붙들려 있었다. 한편으로 하나님께서 선지자에게 의무의 줄을 매셨을 때, 모든 하나님의 종들에게 그렇게 하시듯이(고린도전서 9:16, "나는 복음을 전해야만 한다, 복음을 전하지 않으면 내게 화가 미친다"), 사람들은 그에게 억압의 줄을 매었다(에스겔 3:25). 그러나 이 모든 것 아래에서도 하나님 나라의 유익을 섬기고 있다는 것만으로 충분한 만족이 된다.
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E Z E K I E L. CHAP. IV. Ezekiel was now among the captives in Babylon, but they there had Jerusalem still upon their hearts; the pious captives looked towards it with an eye of faith (as Daniel 6:10 ), the presumptuous ones looked towards it with an eye of pride, and flattered themselves with a conceit that they should shortly return thither again; those that remained corresponded with the captives, and, it is likely, bouyed them up with hopes that all would be well yet, as long as Jerusalem was standing in its strength, and perhaps upbraided those with their folly who had surrendered at first; therefore, to take down this presumption, God gives the prophet, in this chapter, a very clear and affecting foresight of the besieging of Jerusalem by the Chaldean army and the calamities which would attend that siege. Two things are here represented to him in vision:-- I. The fortifications that should be raised against the city; this is signified by the prophet's laying siege to the portraiture of Jerusalem ( Ezekiel 3:1-3 ) and laying first on one side and then on the other side before it, Ezekiel 3:4-8 . II. The famine that should rage within the city; this is signified by his eating very coarse fare, and confining himself to a little of it, so long as this typical representation lasted, Ezekiel 3:9-17 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-1-8" class="com-number"
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에스겔은 당시 바벨론 포로 가운데 있었다. 그런데 포로들은 예루살렘을 여전히 마음에 품고 있었다. 경건한 포로들은 믿음의 눈으로 예루살렘을 바라보았고(다니엘 6:10처럼), 교만한 자들은 자기 눈으로 그 도성을 바라보며 곧 돌아갈 수 있다는 헛된 생각으로 자신을 위로했다. 남아 있던 사람들은 포로들과 연락을 주고받으며 예루살렘이 여전히 굳건히 서 있는 한 모든 것이 잘 될 것이라는 희망을 심어 주었고, 처음부터 항복한 사람들을 어리석다고 비웃었다. 하나님은 이 교만을 꺾으시려고 이 장에서 선지자에게 갈대아 군대가 예루살렘을 포위하고 그 과정에서 닥칠 재앙을 생생하고 강렬하게 미리 보여 주셨다.
여기서 에스겔에게 환상으로 보여 주신 두 가지가 있다. 첫째, 성읍에 대항해 쌓을 공격 진지다. 이는 선지자가 예루살렘을 형상화한 벽돌에 포위 공격을 상징적으로 재현하는 행동(에스겔 3:1-3)과 좌우로 눕는 행동(에스겔 3:4-8)으로 표현되었다. 둘째, 성읍 안에서 맹렬하게 기승을 부릴 기근이다. 이는 선지자가 아주 조악한 음식을 아주 적게 먹으며 이 상징적 재현이 지속되는 내내 그 상태를 유지하는 것으로 표현되었다(에스겔 3:9-17).
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The Representation of a Famine. . 9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. 14 Then said I, Ah Lord G OD ! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. The best exposition of this part of Ezekiel's prediction of Jerusalem's desolation is Jeremiah's lamentation of it, Lamentations 4:3 ; Lamentations 4:4 ; Lamentations 5:10 , where he pathetically describes the terrible famine that was in Jerusalem during the siege and the sad effects of it. I. The prophet here, to affect the people with the foresight of it, must confine himself for 390 days to coarse fare and short commons, and that ill-dressed, for they should want both food and fuel. 1. His meat, for the quality of it, was to be of the worst bread, made of but little wheat and barley, and the rest of beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, such as we feed horses or fatted hogs with, and this mixed, as mill corn, or as that in the beggar's bag, that has a dish full of one sort of corn at one house and of another at another house; of such corn as this must the prophet's bread be made while he underwent the fatigue of lying on his side, and needed something better to support him, Ezekiel 4:9 ; Ezekiel 4:9 . Note, It is our wisdom not to be too fond of dainties and pleasant bread, because we know not what hard meat we may be tied to, nay, and may be glad of, before we die. The meanest sort of food is better than we deserve, and therefore must not be despised nor wasted, nor must those that use it be looked upon with disdain, because we know not what may be our own lot. 2. For the quantity of it, it was to be of the least that a man could be kept alive with, to signify that the besieged should be reduced to short allowance and should hold out till all the bread in the city was spent, Jeremiah 37:21 . The prophet must eat but twenty shekels' weight of bread a day ( Ezekiel 4:10 ; Ezekiel 4:10 ), that was about ten ounces; and he must drink but the sixth part of a hin of water, that was half a pint, about eight ounces, Ezekiel 4:11 ; Ezekiel 4:11 . The stint of the Lessian diet is fourteen ounces of meat and sixteen of drink. The prophet in Babylon had bread enough and to spare, and was by the river side, where there was plenty of water; and yet, that he might confirm his own prediction and be a sign to the children of Israel, God obliges him to live thus sparingly, and he submits to it. Note, God's servants must learn to endure hardness, and to deny themselves the use of lawful delights, when they may thereby serve the glory of God, evidence the sincerity of their faith, and express their sympathy with their brethren in affliction. The body must be kept under and brought into subjection. Nature is content with a little, grace with less, but lust with nothing. It is good to stint ourselves of choice, that we may the better bear it if ever we should come to be stinted by necessity. And in times of public distress and calamity it ill becomes us to make much of ourselves, as those that drank wine in bowls and were not grieved for the affliction of Joseph, Amos 6:4-6 . 3. For the dressing of it, he must bake it with a man's dung ( Ezekiel 4:12 ; Ezekiel 4:12 ); that must be dried, and serve for fuel to heat his oven with. The thought of it would almost turn one's stomach; yet the coarse bread, thus baked, he must eat as barley-cakes, as freely as if it were the same bread he had been used to. This nauseous piece of cookery he must exercise publicly in their sight, that they might be the more affected with the calamity approaching, which was signified by it, that in the extremity of the famine they should not only have nothing that was dainty, but nothing that was cleanly, about them; they must take up with what they could get. To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. This circumstance of the sign, the baking of his bread with man's dung, the prophet with submission humbly desired might be dispensed with ( Ezekiel 4:14 ; Ezekiel 4:14 ); it seemed to have in it something of a ceremonial pollution, for there was a law that man's dung should be covered with earth, that God might see no unclean thing in their camp, Deuteronomy 23:13 ; Deuteronomy 23:14 . And must he go and gather a thing so offensive, and use it in the dressing of his meat in the sight of the people? " Ah! Lord God, " says he, " behold, my soul has not been polluted, and I am afraid lest by this it be polluted." Note, The pollution of the soul by sin is what good people dread more than any thing; and yet sometimes tender consciences fear it without cause, and perplex themselves with scruples about lawful things, as the prophet here, who had not yet learned that it is not that which goes into the mouth that defiles the man, Matthew 15:11 . But observe he does not plead, "Lord, from my youth I have been brought up delicately and have never been used to any thing but what was clean and nice" (and there were those who were so brought up, who in the siege of Jerusalem did embrace dunghills, Lamentations 4:5 ), but that he had been brought up conscientiously, and had never eaten any thing that was forbidden by the law, that died of itself or was torn in pieces; and therefore, "Lord, do not put this upon me now." Thus Peter pleaded ( Acts 10:14 ), Lord, I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. Note, it will be comfortable to us, when we are reduced to hardships, if our hearts can witness for us that we have always been careful to abstain from sin, even from little sins, and the appearances of evil. Whatever God commands us, we may be sure, is good; but, if we be put upon any thing that we apprehend to be evil, we should argue against it, from this consideration, that hitherto we have preserved our purity--and shall we lose it now? Now, because Ezekiel with a manifest tenderness of conscience made this scruple, God dispensed with him in this matter. Note, Those who have power in their hands should not be rigorous in pressing their commands upon those that are dissatisfied concerning them, yea, though their dissatisfactions be groundless or arising from education and long usage, but should recede from them rather than grieve or offend the weak, or put a stumbling-block before them, in conformity to the example of God's condescension to Ezekiel, though we are sure his authority is incontestable and all his commands are wise and good. God allowed Ezekiel to use cow's dung instead of man's dung, Ezekiel 4:15 ; Ezekiel 4:15 . This is a tacit reflection upon man, as intimating that he being polluted with sin his filthiness is more nauseous and odious than that of any other creature. How much more abominable and filthy is man! Job 15:16 . II. Now this sign is particularly explained here; it signified, 1. That those who remained in Jerusalem should be brought to extreme misery for want of necessary food. All supplies being cut off by the besiegers, the city would soon find the want of the country, for the king himself is served of the field; and thus the staff of bread would be broken in Jerusalem, Ezekiel 4:16 ; Ezekiel 4:16 . God would not only take away from the bread its power to nourish, so that they should eat and not be satisfied ( Leviticus 26:26 ), but would take away the bread itself ( Isaiah 3:1 ), so that what little remained should be eaten by weight, so much a day, so much a head, that they might have an equal share and might make it last as long as possible. But to what purpose, when they could not make it last always, and the besieged must be tired out before the besiegers? They should eat and drink with care, to make it go as far as might be, and with astonishment, when they saw it almost spent and knew not which way to look for a recruit. They should be astonished one with another; whereas it is ordinarily some alleviation of a calamity to have others share with us in it ( Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris ), and some ease to the spirit to complain of the burden, it should be an aggravation of the misery that it was universal, and their complaining to one another should but make them all the more uneasy and increase the astonishment. And the event shall be as bad as their fears; they cannot make it worse than it is, for they shall consume away for their iniquity; multitudes of them shall die of famine, a lingering death, worse than that by the sword ( Lamentations 4:9 ); they shall dies so as to feel themselves die. And it is sin that brings all this misery upon them: They shall consume away in their iniquity (so it may be read); they shall continue hardened and impenitent, and shall die in their sins, which is more miserable than to die on a dunghill. Now, (1.) Let us see here what woeful work sin makes with a people, and acknowledge the righteousness of God herein. Time was when Jerusalem was filled with the finest of the wheat ( Psalms 147:14 ); but now it would be glad of the coarsest, and cannot have it. Fulness of bread, as it was one of Jerusalem's mercies, so it had become one of her sins, Ezekiel 16:49 . The plenty was abused to luxury and excess, which were therefore thus justly punished with famine. It is a righteous thing with God to deprive us of those enjoyments which we have made the food and fuel of our lusts. (2.) Let us see what reason we have to bless God for plenty, not only for the fruits of the earth, but for the freedom of commerce, that the husbandman can have money for his bread and the tradesman bread for his money, that there is abundance not only in the field, but in the market, that those who live in cities and great towns, though they sow not, neither do they reap, are yet fed from day to day with food convenient. 2. It signified that those who were carried into captivity should be forced to eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles ( Ezekiel 4:13 ; Ezekiel 4:13 ), to eat meat made up by Gentile hands otherwise than according to the law of the Jewish church, which they were always taught to call defiled, and which they would have as great an aversion to as a man would have to bread prepared with dung, that is (as perhaps it may be understood) kneaded and moulded with dung. Daniel and his fellows confined themselves to pulse and water, rather than they would eat the portion of the king's meat assigned them, because they apprehended it would defile them, Daniel 1:8 . Or they should be forced to eat putrid meat, such as their oppressors would allow them in their slavery, and such as formerly they would have scorned to touch. Because they served not God with cheerfulness in the abundance of all things, God will make them serve their enemies in the want of all things. return to ' Top of Page ' Ezekiel Ezk 3 Ezekiel Ezk Ezekiel Ezk 5 Footnotes: Copyright Statement These files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. Bibliographical Information Henry, Matthew. "Complete Commentary on Ezekiel 4". 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source-manifest/mhm— Matthew Henry Complete Commentary (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological
**기근의 재현**
> 9 너는 밀, 보리, 콩, 렌즈콩, 기장, 귀리를 가져다 한 그릇에 담고, 그것으로 빵을 만들어라. 네가 옆으로 누워 있는 날수인 삼백구십 일 동안 그것을 먹어라. 10 네가 먹을 음식은 하루에 이십 세겔, 무게로 달아서 정해진 시간에 먹어라. 11 물도 육분의 일 힌을 되어서 정해진 시간에 마셔라. 12 보리빵처럼 만들어서 사람의 똥으로 불을 피워 그들이 보는 앞에서 구워라. 13 여호와께서 말씀하셨다. "이스라엘 자손이 내가 그들을 쫓아낼 이방 나라들 중에서 이처럼 부정한 음식을 먹을 것이다." 14 그러자 내가 말했다. "아, 주 하나님이시여! 보십시오, 저의 영혼은 더럽혀진 적이 없습니다. 어렸을 때부터 지금까지 저는 저절로 죽은 것이나 짐승에게 찢긴 것을 먹은 적이 없으며, 부정한 고기가 제 입에 들어온 적이 없습니다." 15 그가 내게 말씀하셨다. "좋다, 내가 사람의 똥 대신 소똥을 주겠다. 그것으로 빵을 만들어라." 16 또 그가 내게 말씀하셨다. "인자야, 보아라, 나는 예루살렘의 빵 공급을 끊을 것이다. 그들은 무게를 달아 걱정하며 빵을 먹고, 양을 되어 두려움 가운데 물을 마실 것이다. 17 빵과 물이 부족하여 서로 놀라며 자신들의 죄악 때문에 쇠약해질 것이다."
에스겔의 이 예언에서 가장 좋은 주석은 예레미야가 그 성취를 기록한 애가다(예레미야애가 4:3-4; 5:10). 예레미야는 포위 기간 예루살렘에 있었던 무서운 기근과 그 참혹한 결과들을 절절하게 묘사했다.
**I. 선지자는 390일 동안 조악한 음식을 아주 적게, 그나마 제대로 조리도 되지 않은 상태로 먹도록 제한받았다.** 음식도 연료도 부족할 것이기 때문이다.
1. **음식의 질**은 최악의 빵이어야 했다. 밀과 보리는 조금이고 나머지는 콩, 렌즈콩, 기장, 귀리 같은 것들, 즉 말이나 살찌우는 돼지에게나 주는 것들이었다. 이것을 뒤섞어 만든 빵은 구걸하러 다니며 이 집에서 한 가지, 저 집에서 다른 것을 담아 온 자루 속의 혼합 곡식 같은 것이었다(에스겔 4:9). 우리는 맛있는 음식과 좋은 빵에 너무 집착하지 않는 것이 지혜다. 우리가 죽기 전에 무슨 거친 음식을 먹게 될지, 아니 오히려 그런 음식이라도 있으면 감사해야 할 처지에 놓일지 알 수 없기 때문이다. 가장 보잘것없는 음식도 우리가 받을 자격보다 낫다. 그러므로 그것을 경멸하거나 낭비해서는 안 되며, 그것을 먹는 사람들을 멸시해서도 안 된다.
2. **음식의 양**은 사람이 겨우 살아갈 수 있는 최소한이어야 했다. 이는 포위당한 자들이 식량 배급을 제한받다가 결국 성읍의 빵이 다 떨어질 때까지 버티게 될 것임을 나타냈다(예레미야 37:21). 선지자는 하루에 이십 세겔 무게의 빵, 곧 약 열 온스를 먹어야 했고(에스겔 4:10), 물은 육분의 일 힌, 곧 반 파인트 정도인 약 여덟 온스를 마셔야 했다(에스겔 4:11). 바벨론에 있는 선지자에게는 빵이 넘치고 강물도 풍성했다. 그러나 자신의 예언을 확증하고 이스라엘 자손에게 표징이 되기 위해, 하나님은 그에게 이처럼 아끼며 먹도록 명하셨고 그는 순종했다. 하나님의 종들은 고난을 견디는 법을 배워야 하며, 하나님의 영광을 섬기고 믿음의 진실함을 증거하며 환난 당하는 형제들에 대한 연대감을 표현하기 위해 합법적인 즐거움도 자발적으로 포기할 줄 알아야 한다. 몸은 억제되고 복종하게 되어야 한다. 본성은 적은 것으로 만족하고, 은혜는 더 적은 것으로 만족하지만, 정욕은 아무것으로도 만족하지 못한다. 스스로 선택하여 절제하는 것이 좋다. 그래야 불가피하게 제한받게 될 때 더 잘 감당할 수 있다. 공적 재앙과 재난의 시기에 요셉의 환난을 슬퍼하지 않으면서 사치스럽게 지내는 것(아모스 6:4-6)은 우리에게 어울리지 않는다.
3. **음식의 조리 방법**으로는 사람의 똥을 말려 연료로 써서 빵을 구워야 했다(에스겔 4:12). 그 생각만으로도 역겨움이 느껴진다. 그러나 이렇게 조리된 조악한 빵을 마치 보리빵인 것처럼 먹어야 했다. 이 역겨운 요리를 그들이 보는 앞에서 공개적으로 해야 했다. 극한의 기근 속에서 그들이 우아한 것은커녕 깨끗한 것도 없이 손에 잡히는 것을 먹게 될 재앙을 더 강하게 느끼도록 하기 위해서였다. 배고픈 영혼에게는 쓴 것도 달다. 빵을 사람의 똥으로 굽는 이 역겨운 표징 부분에 대해 선지자는 겸손하게 면제를 구했다(에스겔 4:14). 에스겔 4:14를 보라. 이것은 의식적인 부정함처럼 보였다. 사람의 똥을 흙으로 덮어야 한다는 율법이 있었으니(신명기 23:13-14), 진영 안에 부정한 것이 보이지 않게 하려는 것이었다. 그런데 이렇게 역겨운 것을 모아 백성이 보는 앞에서 음식을 만드는 데 사용해야 한단 말인가? "아, 주 하나님이시여"라고 선지자는 말했다. "보십시오, 제 영혼은 더럽혀진 적이 없습니다. 이것으로 제가 더럽혀질까 두렵습니다." 주목할 것은 그가 "저는 항상 섬세하고 깨끗한 것만 먹으며 자랐습니다"라고 변명하지 않았다는 점이다. 포위된 예루살렘에서 그렇게 자란 사람들이 거름 더미를 껴안았으니 말이다(예레미야애가 4:5). 오히려 그는 양심적으로 자랐으며, 율법이 금한 것, 즉 저절로 죽은 것이나 짐승에게 찢긴 것을 먹은 적이 없다고 했다. 그러면서 "주님, 지금 이것을 제게 요구하지 마십시오"라고 했다. 베드로도 이렇게 말했다(사도행전 10:14). "주님, 저는 속되거나 부정한 것은 아무것도 먹은 적이 없습니다." 고난을 당할 때 우리가 항상 죄를 삼가고, 작은 죄에서도, 악의 모양에서도 떠났다는 양심의 증거를 가질 수 있다면 위로가 된다. 하나님께서 명하시는 것은 무엇이든 선하다. 그러나 우리가 악하다고 여기는 일을 하도록 요구받는다면, 지금까지 정결을 지켜 왔는데 지금 그것을 잃어야 하느냐는 논거로 반론을 제기해야 한다.
에스겔이 분명히 양심의 가책을 보이며 이 부분을 거리꼈으므로, 하나님은 이 경우에 그를 면제해 주셨다. 주목할 것은 권위를 가진 자들이 그 명령에 불만을 품는 사람들에게 지나치게 엄격하게 명령을 강요해서는 안 된다는 것이다. 비록 그 불만이 근거가 없거나 교육과 오랜 습관에서 비롯된 것이라도, 약한 자들을 슬프게 하거나 걸려 넘어지게 하는 것보다는 차라리 물러서야 한다. 하나님의 권위는 반박할 수 없고 그분의 모든 명령은 지혜롭고 선하다는 것이 분명함에도 에스겔에게 내려 주신 하나님의 인자한 배려를 본보기로 삼아야 한다. 하나님은 에스겔에게 사람의 똥 대신 소똥을 쓰도록 허락하셨다(에스겔 4:15). 에스겔 4:15를 보라. 이것은 사람에 대한 은근한 질책이기도 하다. 죄로 더럽혀진 사람의 더러움은 다른 어떤 피조물의 것보다 역겹고 혐오스럽다는 것을 함축하기 때문이다. "사람은 참으로 얼마나 가증하고 부패했는가!"(욥기 15:16).
**II. 이 표징이 특별히 설명된다.** 그것은 다음 두 가지를 의미했다.
1. **예루살렘에 남은 자들은 필요한 음식이 없어 극도의 비참함에 처하게 될 것이다.** 포위군에 의해 모든 보급이 차단되면서 도성은 곧 농촌의 도움 없이는 버틸 수 없음을 깨닫게 될 것이다. "왕 자신도 밭에서 나오는 것을 먹는다." 이렇게 예루살렘의 빵 공급이 끊길 것이다(에스겔 4:16). 에스겔 4:16을 보라. 하나님은 단지 빵의 영양 공급 능력을 없애, 먹어도 배부르지 않게 하시는(레위기 26:26) 것에 그치지 않으시고 빵 자체를 없애 버리실 것이다(이사야 3:1). 남은 조금의 빵도 하루 몫씩 일인당 무게를 달아 나눠야 할 것이다. 그것이 가능한 한 오래 가도록 똑같이 나누어 아껴야 하기 때문이다. 그러나 무슨 소용이랴, 포위된 자들은 결국 포위하는 자들보다 먼저 지쳐 버릴 것이다. 그들은 걱정하며 먹고 두려움 가운데 마실 것이다. 남은 것이 거의 바닥나고 어디서 더 구할지 알지 못할 때, 그들은 놀람 가운데 서로를 바라볼 것이다. 다른 이들도 우리와 똑같이 재앙을 함께 겪는다는 것이 보통은 어느 정도 위안이 되고(miseros socios habuisse doloris는 위안이 된다), 짐을 호소하는 것이 어느 정도 마음을 가볍게 해 주기도 한다. 그러나 재앙이 보편적이어서 서로 호소해도 불안만 더 깊어지고 두려움만 가중되어 위안이 되지 못할 것이다. 결과는 두려움보다 더 나쁠 것이다. 아사로 죽는 것은 칼에 맞아 죽는 것보다 더 느리고 고통스럽다(예레미야애가 4:9). 그들은 스스로 죽어가는 것을 느낀다. 이 모든 비참함을 가져오는 것은 죄다. "그들은 자신들의 죄악 때문에 쇠약해질 것이다." 이렇게 읽을 수도 있다. "그들은 자신들의 죄악 안에서 쇠약해질 것이다." 완악하고 회개하지 않은 채 죄 가운데 죽는 것은 거름 더미 위에서 죽는 것보다 더 비참하다.
- 죄가 한 백성에게 얼마나 끔찍한 결과를 가져오는지 보라. 하나님의 의로우심을 인정하라. 한때 예루살렘에는 최고의 밀이 가득했다(시편 147:14). 그런데 이제 가장 조악한 것을 원하지만 그것조차 없다. 넉넉한 빵은 예루살렘의 복이었지만 동시에 죄가 되었다(에스겔 16:49). 풍요는 사치와 방탕으로 남용되었고, 그 결과 기근으로 정당하게 심판받게 된 것이다. 하나님께서 우리의 정욕의 먹이와 연료가 된 향락들을 빼앗아 가시는 것은 옳다.
- 풍요에 감사할 이유를 보라. 땅의 소출뿐만 아니라 자유로운 교역의 복, 농부는 빵을 돈으로 바꾸고 상인은 돈으로 빵을 살 수 있다는 것, 들에도 시장에도 풍족함이 있다는 것, 도시와 큰 마을에 사는 사람들은 씨를 뿌리거나 거두지 않아도 날마다 필요한 양식을 공급받는다는 것 — 이 모든 것에 감사해야 한다.
2. **포로로 끌려간 자들은 이방 나라들 가운데서 부정한 음식을 먹을 수밖에 없게 될 것이다**(에스겔 4:13). 에스겔 4:13을 보라. 이방인들의 손으로 만들어진 음식, 유대 교회의 율법에 따르지 않은 방식으로 조리된 음식을 먹어야 할 것이다. 그들은 항상 그런 음식을 부정하다고 불렀고, 마치 사람이 똥으로 반죽한 빵을 혐오하듯 그것을 거부했다. 다니엘과 그의 친구들은 왕이 배정해 준 음식을 먹으면 자신들이 더럽혀진다고 생각했기 때문에, 차라리 채소와 물만 먹는 것을 택했다(다니엘 1:8). 또는 억압자들이 노예인 그들에게 주는 썩은 고기처럼, 전에는 손도 대지 않았을 음식을 억지로 먹게 될 것이다. 그들이 모든 것이 넘칠 때 기쁨으로 하나님을 섬기지 않았으므로, 하나님은 모든 것이 부족한 상황에서 원수들을 섬기게 하실 것이다.
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