Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 3:14

14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

And Heb. or then, at that very time.

The Spirit of God, as ver. 12. which see.

Either from that prostration which the terrible Vision had caused, when he fell to the ground. Or, rather caught him, who before was on his Legs and well come to himself, up into the Air.

Carried me, (as was Phili[illegible: 1 letter] when carried away from the Eunuch,) and brought me to the place where I was to deliver my message, the place where the Captive Jews were crouded together.

Hitherto nothing appears of the Prophets concurrence, but the verse seems to speak, constraint and force, but now you have his voluntary concurrence with the motion of the Spirit. He went when so moved and assisted.

Bitter in the heat of my Spirit, Heb. Grieved, sad, and my Spirit within me was as all in a heat of anger. Either 1. Enkindled within by the sympathy he had with his Countrey-men in their sufferings and calamities. Or, 2. Because of those wickednesses he saw and reproved in them. Or, 3. Because he must be the unwelcome messenger of such unwelcome news. 4. Or, Because of the danger he was exposed to among enraged desperadoes, which way ever you explain it, Ezekiels weakness and distempered humour will appear in it, Ionas-like will be angry.

For, as some others. And as Heb.

Either in general the Power of God, which cannot be resisted. Or, the Spirit of Prophesie, which as a Fire shut up will break forth, as in Ier. 20.7, 8, 9. indeed both concurre.

Marginal references: Heb. bitter.; Heb. hot anger.