“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”
The distribution here is cast in a new method entirely: old things pass away, all things become new in gospel times. God does not follow in grace the same order He uses in providence; Dan, who fell to idolatry and got only a city before, now receives his portion first and foremost, signifying that in Christ the last shall be first.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 40:1-4
And the man said unto me, Son of man,.... The glorious and illustrious Person before described, who appeared in a human form, spoke to the prophet, calling him "the Son of man", a title often bestowed upon him in this prophecy; and here used to put him in mind of his original and decent, and of his meanness and unworthiness; thereby teaching him humility, which...
Declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel - That they may know how to build the second temple, when they shall be restored from their captivity.