Submitted by Haoran on 19 August, 2011 - 22:19
An enormously insightful throwaway comment by our OT lecturer today: "Ezekiel, like the other exilic prophets, is attacking Israel's presumption.
The context: Part of the pervasive "orthodoxy" in Jerusalem, prior to its fall in the 6th century BC, was that as the city of God, in which Yahweh himself dwelt with his temple, Jerusalem was inviolable and impregnable, regardless of the moral laxity within the city.
