John Trapp on Ezekiel 3:1

CHAP. III.

Ver. 1. SOn of man, eat that thou findeſt] Eat this roul or volume, without tergiverſation, or ſo much as ſciſcitation: yeild ſimple obedience to the heavenly viſion: It was in viſion doubtleſſe, that the Prophet did eat the roul,Act. & Mon. and not in very deed; as the fooliſh Patient did the Phyſicians Recipe, or as Mr. Lewis of Mancheſter made the Biſhops Summoner eat the citation which he brough for his wife (a Martyr in Queen Maries dayes) by ſetting a dagger to his heart, and to drink to it, when he had done. It was non reipſa, ſed ſpiritu, ſaith an Interpreter: See ver. 10.

Eat this roul, and go ſpeak unto the houſe of Iſrael] Firſt learn, and then teach others; that thou maiſt utter my mind readily, dexterouſly, and affectionately; ſpeaking à corde ad cor, and digging thy diſcourſes out of thine own boſom, as it is ſaid of Origen, and after him of Petrus Comeſtor, who merited that title,Ex intimo cordis affectu. becauſe by his often allegations of the holy Scripture, he ſeemed to have eaten it up and diſgeſted it.