EZEKIEL (spin', " God strengthens " or " God is strong "; Sept.

Ezekiel was married (xxiv.

This, then, was Ezekiel's political creed - destruction of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, restoration of the exiles, and meantime submission to Babylon.

Ezekiel's own moral code is that of the prophets, which insists on the practice of the fundamental civic virtues.

feeling of the later time frowned on the custom, and Ezekiel treats it as adultery.'