{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/eze002.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/eze002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/eze002.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nSon of man\n\"Son of man,\" used by our Lord of Himself seventy-nine times, is used by Jehovah ninety one times when addressing Ezekiel.\n(1) In the case of our Lord the meaning is clear: it is His racial name as the representative Man in the sense of (Co1 15:45-47). The same thought, implying transcendence of mere Judaism, is involved in the phrase when applied to Ezekiel. Israel had forgotten her mission.\n(See Scofield) - (Gen 11:10); (Eze 5:5-8).\nNow, in her captivity, Jehovah will not forsake His people, but He will remind them that they are but a small part of the race for whom He also cares. Hence the emphasis upon the word \"man.\" The Cherubim \"had the likeness of a man\" (Eze 1:5) and when the prophet beheld the throne of God, he saw \"the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it\" (Eze 1:26).\n(See Scofield) - (Mat 8:20); (Rev 1:12); (Rev 1:13).\n(2) As used of Ezekiel, the expression indicates, not what the prophet is in himself, but what he is to God; a son of man\n(a) chosen,\n(b) endued with the Spirit, and\n(c) sent of God.\nAll this is true also of Christ who was, furthermore, the representative man -- the head of regenerate humanity.","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Ezekiel: Ezekiel Chapter 2","type":"page"}