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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links and a discussion forum 2013 February 5
Priest With a Book: Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli (Folio 159) - (c. 1370)
Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (c. 1339 - c. 1399)
International Gothic Style
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Image Credit: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: In chapter two of Ezekiel, the LORD tells Ezekiel to stand upright and delivers a book to him which contained lamentations, and mourning, and woe. As a priest, Ezekiel would have been around the sacred books and may have handled them. In a similar way, in the painting above, a priest holds a book, possibly the Bible or possibly the Gradual (a hymnal for the Mass). But Ezekiel was about to do something with the book he had been given which no one - neither he nor any other priest - had done with a book - for in the next chapter, at God's command, he ate the book.
Ezekiel Chapter 2
2:1-2. 1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
2:3-8. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
2:9-10. 9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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